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That's the point of the article: in the quest for ever greater redness, the companies dominating apple production bred out the taste completely, so now you have

• Tomte 6y ago
  They generally don't use the same trade name for totally different apples. It's likely the Red Delicious of the old days are genetically exactly the same as the Red Delicious of today.
  • nuclearnice1 6y ago
    The author seems to believe they changed: “But as genes for beauty were favored over those for taste, the skins grew tough and bitter around mushy, sugar-soaked flesh.”
    • Tomte 6y ago
      No, the author is not talking about Red Delicious in that sentence. The sentence before talks about Red delicious, and the sentence you quoted talks about later cultivars.
      • nuclearnice1 6y ago
        You sure? I’d love it if it were like you say. I imagine a dedication to an authoritative strain. Like champagne or parmigiano reggiano. I heard bananas today are completely unlike bananas of the past. Sadly, I’m pretty sure Red D ain’t what it used to be. The next sentence: > But as genes for beauty were favored over those for taste, the skins grew tough and bitter around mushy, sugar-soaked flesh. Still, by the 1980s, the Red Delicious made up 75 percent of the crop produced in Washington.
        • fedorareis 6y ago
          > I heard bananas today are completely unlike bananas of the past. That is because bananas of today is a completely different cultivar of banana. Up until the 1950s the primary type of banana was the Gros Michel. This is also why artificial banana flavor doesn’t taste like bananas we have today. The artificial flavor was originally created when the Gros Michel was what people thought of when they thought of a banana.