Cox's Orange Pippin is indeed a great apple (and perhaps more importantly, a parent to a huge number of delicious and more tractable varieties), but it's hardly

Cox's Orange Pippin is indeed a great apple (and perhaps more importantly, a parent to a huge number of delicious and more tractable varieties), but it's hardly brown or dark - it looks like a textbook apple to me: https://pomiferous.com/applebyname/coxs-orange-pippin-id-2133 https://pomiferous.com/applebyname/coxs-orange-pippin-id-213... And careful with "your local" anything on the internet - in the UK, in season, every single supermarket in the country has Coxes.