I once had access (local grocer) to apples that were green on the outside and red fleshed on the inside. I forget the name and haven't seen them in years. Wish I could find them again as they were perfect for this time of year.
Apple Rankings
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#342I once spent a month blind taste-testing apples with my wife to compare the apples in our supermarket. We learned 4 things: 1) Most of the Honeycrisp varietals that make it to market are good (Wild Twist and Cosmic Crisp being our favorites), but… 2) The time of year makes a HUGE difference. It seems obvious when I say it, but different varietals from different farms are best in different weeks. Honeycrisp has an adv…
I remember going to one of the local markets and asked the guy putting out the apples if the organic apples were really worth it. He immediately pulled out an organic apple (fuji if I recall correctly) and the same type, but non-organic. He cut out a slice of each apple and let me taste it. The organic apple had significantly better flavor. He explained that the drawback was that the organic apples would go bad quick…
That's because conventional store apples are coated with wax and organic ones are not. Wax often has bad, usually bitter, taste and unpleasant texture.
Organic apples are not coated with wax, so they taste better, but will dry up faster.
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#343He's got Granny Smith in the shit category, and this just reminds me of a funny story about dogs! We had two corgis and my wife made all their meals by hand. Part of their diet was apples, but we found one of the corgis would almost always eat around the apple (usually just a cheap red apple) pieces and leave them for the other dog. Then one time Granny Smith apples were cheaper at the grocery store so that is what w…
you can listen to him rant about the Granny Smith at the end of this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zohlRKE49wo pretty funny
“Granny Smith apple”
“Oh boy... Alright you just made a mistake”
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#344Earlier quoted context omitted.
Came here to say that this invalidates the entire list! Great to see this as the top comment!
Red Delicious 25 Granny Smith 53 McIntosh 45 Cortland 24 Either I have never had a good apple or there is something off with this list and the reviews. Could it be they are using imported or out of season apples? This list is pretty much the apples I have access to locally and they are all perceivably better than some of the international variety that are ranked higher on that website. The comment section for Cortlan…
Red Delicious was described as "mealy", which sounds like an out of season apple. The science behind long term storage of apples made it really common to have edible apples all year round but when critiquing you've got to take freshness into account.
This site has a comedy bend but with all the interest I'd love to see it embrace a rotten tomatoes kind of style (the critics vs. the masses).
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#345Anybody who'd give the two top slots to sweet tango and honeycrisp-- the proprietary, designed-by committee apples that prioritize inoffensive, bland appeal over character-- doesn't deserve an opinion on this topic. It's like ranking a bazillion craft beers and giving the #1 slot to Blue Moon and the #2 slot to Sam Adams. They're the Applebee's and Olive Garden of Apples.
Also, the descriptions show that the majority of what they've tasted were probably out of season, not ripe or overripe, and likely shipped a long distance. You might as well rank US pizza shops but only tasting them at home, delivered... even if they're across the country.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was a shill either for the people who own the honeycrisp patents, or someone who's licensed the breed and grows a lot of them.
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#346Honestly - I think this list prioritizes basically just "sweetness" and "crispness" (despite his claimed categories) which is fine - those are generally appealing things for eating. That said - many of the apples in the "shit" category are fucking delicious. There are days when I want a sweet, crisp apple, and there are days I have a serious hankering for a good ol' granny smith. Even the classic Red Delicious - whic…
Even assuming the flavor of red delicious was at all palatable in any sense of the word, it's impossible to get past the fact that they have the tepid texture of water soaked pile of corrugated cardboard. I think you may be an outlier.
They are, I was shocked to discover, delicious and crisp, but you have 30 seconds to eat them after picking before they turn into the horror you describe so eloquently.
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#347Earlier quoted context omitted.
Came here to say that this invalidates the entire list! Great to see this as the top comment!
Red Delicious 25 Granny Smith 53 McIntosh 45 Cortland 24 Either I have never had a good apple or there is something off with this list and the reviews. Could it be they are using imported or out of season apples? This list is pretty much the apples I have access to locally and they are all perceivably better than some of the international variety that are ranked higher on that website. The comment section for Cortlan…
I suspect the author of the website has no time for tart apples, seems there's a bias for sweetness.
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#348I'm about to hulk out and fight over granny Smith
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#349Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had a dog who loved watermelon. She was a (rescue) pug too so you can imagine the mess she made of that. Even on her deathbed, literal hours before crossing the bridge, she still managed a little. (Wow, I’m 45, it’s been nearly 5 years and I suddenly started crying after writing that. Goddamn I miss that dog. RIP Lucy.) (I defensively stated rescue as I’m often assailed with ‘pugs should not exist’ replies. I tend…
No explanation needed. We have 3 frenchies - also rescues. People get them, realize their vets bills are insane, and then dump them off. They are also a big breed in puppy mills that get shut down. We have spent an inordinate amount of money on frenchies over the years (we've had 5 - not at the same time, but 2 died prematurely from health issues), but these dogs didn't chose be here, and deserve a good life.
You're both doing incredible work. It's heart breaking losing a dog, it's raw for me now currently I'm still in the crying-almost-daily stage.
Not too dissimilar to me, though I don't often go breed specific but age. I've foster failed a few dogs in the last 6-7 years. I lost my recent foster fail Buster on the 2nd of November and I only got him back from the crematorium yesterday.
It's been a rough few weeks, this home has only ever been a home with Buster in it and it's been dreadfully empty with his passing. I cry every day I see something that reminds me of him.
Baby gates that stop him going up and down stairs because of his arthritis. His dog beds in each room which he would follow us when my partner and I worked from home. Food bowls. His blankets to keep him old bones warm. Coming home or getting out of bed and him not being there to howl at me. It's truly dreadful.
Buster was 14.5 years old when he passed and was 12 yo when I adopted him. I didn't believe his age when I adopted him. He was a Husky X Boxer so I could only imagine what he was like as a puppy considering his appetite for movement at 12 yo when he was effectively 100+ in human years.
Some pictures of Buster: https://imgur.com/gallery/WtLy4ZN/comment/2279131045
I want to wait a while before fostering or adopting again but... I'm getting warn down by all the dogs that are needing a home from the groups I volunteer and donate to. I'm doom scrolling dogs in need daily.
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#350Man, this guy had a lot of cheeky fun writing the titles and descriptions!