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I don't understand what you're trying to say. How is morality relevant at all here?

rdiddly 9y ago
Not the parent but I'll take a stab at this anyway. None of this is actually about moralizing, but very much about signaling that one is part of the cohort of "discerning" consumers (who wouldn't be caught dead, darling, eating a Red Delicious), and not among those great unwashed backwoods jerkwater hordes who eat them because they don't know any better. Hence the religion-like simplicity of the message "red delicious bad" which bears some similarity to a moral pronouncement while not actually being one. Whatever. Red Delicious, Gala, even Mackintosh (remember them? usually for pie)... they're all good. Red Delicious is unfashionable, plain and simple. I find them great, when fresh. They get mealy/mushy when they've been sitting around too long.
- jacobolus 9y ago
  Can’t someone just dislike a type of apple without it being a political statement? I have thought “red delicious” were terrible since grade school, when they used to hand them out as snacks, and I promise you that 6-year-old me was not trying to signal anything.
  - rdiddly 9y ago
    Sure, you can dislike it. Or like it. That's basically my point - there's no need to attach all the extra ridiculousness to it and make it into a "statement" of any kind.
- randlet 9y ago
  "Mackintosh (remember them? usually for pie)." No "k" in Macintosh, but this is a weird statement to me. Macs are very popular in Canada and virtually every grocery store that I've been in carries them (in Ontario anyways). They can be really excellent fresh off the tree but are generally a fair to middling apple in my opinion.
  - rdiddly 9y ago
    Yeah I think that's why they're considered a baking apple. You can cover up any deficiencies. But I've always liked 'em okay just for eating.
- mikeash 9y ago
  I've avoided Red Delicious for years. Nobody told me to, I just realized they sucked. I didn't know this was a common opinion until reading these comments. (And given their prevalence in grocery store produce departments, I'm still not convinced.) This nonsense where every expression of opinion or preference is labeled as "signaling" has got to stop.

Not the parent but I'll take a stab at this anyway. None of this is actually about moralizing, but very much about signaling that one is part of the cohort of "discerning" consumers (who wouldn't be caught dead, darling, eating a Red Delicious), and not among those great unwashed backwoods jerkwater hordes who eat them because they don't know any better. Hence the religion-like simplicity of the message "red delicious bad" which bears some similarity to a moral pronouncement while not actually being one. Whatever. Red Delicious, Gala, even Mackintosh (remember them? usually for pie)... they're all good. Red Delicious is unfashionable, plain and simple. I find them great, when fresh. They get mealy/mushy when they've been sitting around too long.

jacobolus 9y ago
Can’t someone just dislike a type of apple without it being a political statement? I have thought “red delicious” were terrible since grade school, when they used to hand them out as snacks, and I promise you that 6-year-old me was not trying to signal anything.
- rdiddly 9y ago
  Sure, you can dislike it. Or like it. That's basically my point - there's no need to attach all the extra ridiculousness to it and make it into a "statement" of any kind.
randlet 9y ago
"Mackintosh (remember them? usually for pie)." No "k" in Macintosh, but this is a weird statement to me. Macs are very popular in Canada and virtually every grocery store that I've been in carries them (in Ontario anyways). They can be really excellent fresh off the tree but are generally a fair to middling apple in my opinion.
- rdiddly 9y ago
  Yeah I think that's why they're considered a baking apple. You can cover up any deficiencies. But I've always liked 'em okay just for eating.
mikeash 9y ago
I've avoided Red Delicious for years. Nobody told me to, I just realized they sucked. I didn't know this was a common opinion until reading these comments. (And given their prevalence in grocery store produce departments, I'm still not convinced.) This nonsense where every expression of opinion or preference is labeled as "signaling" has got to stop.