A fresh red delicious apple is an extraordinary eating apple. As a kid, they were my favorite. But I was eating them from an orchard down the road. They're grea

A fresh red delicious apple is an extraordinary eating apple. As a kid, they were my favorite. But I was eating them from an orchard down the road. They're great for a week or so off the tree. What they are not is a good storage apple, which is why their status as our primary commodity apple is strange.