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I don't know what's with the hate on Granny Smith. I love Granny Smith apples. They are especially good for making Waldorf salad. They are also my favorite to eat with honey at new years. They have a nice crispy texture and are delightfully tangy.
Missing my favourite apple: Aurora. This is the best apple by far. Last long, taste is amazing (though maybe a bit too sweet after a while). I can't rarely find them. Does anyone know how to track down where apples are grown?
boy, this is painful to read regarding red delicious. "Nowadays, you can find this thick-skinned, flavorless, mealy imposter unwashed in a dirty wicker basket on the floor of a convenience store. What a sad state of affairs. It’s time to hang them up old man, your time has passed."
The absolute best apples I've ever had were pick-ur-own at a well-regarded apple orchard in Connecticut. I believe they are McIntosh although it could also be macoun. Every apple is crisp (not mealy), sweet and tart, with a thin skin and lots of flesh.
The big disappointment for me was moving to california, in an area without pick-your-own. How do I put it? The vast majority of apples in supermarkets here are abysmal. The granny smiths were often mealy and not tart at all! It wasn't until I went to a boutique grocery (Monterey Market in Berkeley) that I finally tasted apples in the same category as the ones I grew up with.
Reading the descriptions on this site, I don't really recognize their descriptions. Mcintosh has a thick skin? Ummmm.
The best apple I ever had was a Fuji apple… in Japan. It's never that crisp in the US. I don't know why they rank Cosmic Crisp so low. I rank it neck and neck with SweeTango.
They have really high standards in general for fruit in Japan.
PS: I hate the internet being monetization of cattle vs discovery of wild and unclassified species in the woods.
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>more of this silly apple snobbery
Fine, sure. How bad does something have to taste for it to stop being snobbery? Is there any time you can criticize any food? Taste is subjective at the margins but Red Delicious are famously reviled, and for good reason. Whatever measure you pick for "aspects of foods that humans like" they will fail. You're allowed to be that one person that them, I like things that nobody else likes too but I'm not stupid enough t…
perhaps not during a global food crisis, from a first-world (obese) nation, which is seeing some fruits and vegetables tripling in price
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>more of this silly apple snobbery
Fine, sure. How bad does something have to taste for it to stop being snobbery? Is there any time you can criticize any food? Taste is subjective at the margins but Red Delicious are famously reviled, and for good reason. Whatever measure you pick for "aspects of foods that humans like" they will fail. You're allowed to be that one person that them, I like things that nobody else likes too but I'm not stupid enough t…
Famously reviled by whom? Could this be selection bias at play? I personally have never met a real-world person who disliked them as singularly as Internet hipsters do. Opinions range from "my fav" to "not my fav".
>You're allowed to be that one person that them
Ah, I've got my work cut out for me*, visiting every single grocery store and buying up their most abundant supply of apples. Surely they cannot be ordering them due to popularity.
* (Red delicious is not even my favourite, just a regular apple).
What, no Russets?! And Pink Lady are all sugar and no flavour.