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Additional varieties mean additional flavors. I don't know about you, but I buy six or eight different varieties at the store. Crunch, or sweet, or sour, or jus

by ip26 7y ago

Additional varieties mean additional flavors. I don't know about you, but I buy six or eight different varieties at the store. Crunch, or sweet, or sour, or just pomme du jour... We get so focused on 'the BEST', that's how we wind up with a monocrop of banana clones, or the inedible (but pretty) Washington Delicious, etc.

ravenstine 7y ago
Ha! I thought I was the only one who hated those apples. Worst part is that it's got "delicious" in the name. World's falsest advertising!
- Ericson2314 7y ago
  I remember when very young repeated begging my mom to buy red delicious and each time being disappointed such a beautiful looking apple tasted so bad.
  - repiret 7y ago
    Recently an apple truck turned over, and so the wrecking company ended up selling damaged 50lb boxes of apples for $10. I bought a couple and was disappointed to learn they were red delicious. But they turned out to actually be really good. First time I remember ever liking a red delicious.
- ceejayoz 7y ago
  You're definitely not the only one. The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious: How the worst apple took over the United States, and continues to spread https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-evil-reign-of-the-red-delicious/379892/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-evil-... The Long, Monstrous Reign of the Red Delicious Apple Is Ending: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/business/red-delicious-apple.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/business/red-delicious-ap...
- ip26 7y ago
  They used to taste better. Key excerpts from the Atlantic article: as genes for beauty were favored over those for taste, the skins grew tough and bitter around mushy, sugar-soaked flesh. U.S. apple growers [...] made the apples redder and redder, and prettier and prettier, and they just about bred themselves out of existence
  - stormdennis 7y ago
    The same thing happened to tomatoes I believe, or breeding for appearance and losing flavor in the process.
    - baq 7y ago
      tasty tomatoes are nigh impossible to store fresh. i think i've heard a story about a lab or some other enterprise working on storeable, transportable, tasty tomatoes. first couple companies to get there certainly have my money.

by ip26 7y ago

ravenstine 7y ago

Ha! I thought I was the only one who hated those apples. Worst part is that it's got "delicious" in the name. World's falsest advertising!

Ericson2314 7y ago
I remember when very young repeated begging my mom to buy red delicious and each time being disappointed such a beautiful looking apple tasted so bad.
- repiret 7y ago
  Recently an apple truck turned over, and so the wrecking company ended up selling damaged 50lb boxes of apples for $10. I bought a couple and was disappointed to learn they were red delicious. But they turned out to actually be really good. First time I remember ever liking a red delicious.
ceejayoz 7y ago
You're definitely not the only one. The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious: How the worst apple took over the United States, and continues to spread https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-evil-reign-of-the-red-delicious/379892/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-evil-... The Long, Monstrous Reign of the Red Delicious Apple Is Ending: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/business/red-delicious-apple.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/business/red-delicious-ap...
ip26 7y ago
They used to taste better. Key excerpts from the Atlantic article: as genes for beauty were favored over those for taste, the skins grew tough and bitter around mushy, sugar-soaked flesh. U.S. apple growers [...] made the apples redder and redder, and prettier and prettier, and they just about bred themselves out of existence
- stormdennis 7y ago
  The same thing happened to tomatoes I believe, or breeding for appearance and losing flavor in the process.
  - baq 7y ago
    tasty tomatoes are nigh impossible to store fresh. i think i've heard a story about a lab or some other enterprise working on storeable, transportable, tasty tomatoes. first couple companies to get there certainly have my money.