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Red "Delicious" if you're unlucky. Chosen for their shelf life, thick skin, and red color, and by the marketing spend of the organizations behind it. Chosen las
by LeifCarrotson 11y ago
Red "Delicious" if you're unlucky. Chosen for their shelf life, thick skin, and red color, and by the marketing spend of the organizations behind it. Chosen lastly (if at all) for their taste.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/04/AR2005080402194.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08...
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-evil-reign-of-the-red-delicious/379892/ http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-evil-r...
- anexprogrammer 11y ago...paid Hiatt for the rights, and then renamed the seedling the Delicious as a marketing ploy. Says it all really. If you have to tell us it's delicious, it isn't. Much like the GDR and democratic. Meanwhile hundreds of regional varieties are being pushed to extinction.