Does my favorite apple-loving lib, Samuel Seder, know about this?
Cosmic Crisp: 74. “The most overhyped apple of all time”
oh these are some fucking fighting words
Pink Lady is my jam.
Hot take: all apples suck, shittiest fruit good only for turning into something that makes you drunk, be that cider or mixer.
EDIT: I will happily die on this hill as long as you don’t plant an apple tree on it
I will fight you over this, apples are top tier fruit. Too many other fruits rely on a subtle colour change to tell you the 5 minute window when they’re ripe (I’m looking at you bananas and pears)
Apples meanwhile are easy, you look at it and you know it’s terrible to eat
Bah, I’ve lost count of the fruit I’ve wasted because colourblindess makes it almost impossible to pick good fruit. Apples are consistent, delicious, and by far the best choice in my situation.
Also fruits are bourgeois decadence anyway, real proletarians live off root vegetables and local forage
Their skin gets stuck in your teeth and even the juicy ones have this mealy texture underneath
Apple rankings are fake
Apple breeds and cultivars are fake
Apple’s taste depends way more on the health of the particular tree and soil than the “cultivar”. I’ve had so many apples from the “same cultivar”, even bought from the physically same grocery store only 1 year apart, that taste completely different.
The only breed I’ve had that maintained any sort of consistency is the Fuji apple (and also the standard Red/Golden Delicious and Granny Smith, but these suck for eating raw). And even then the Fuji has deteriorated a lot over the last 2 decades–I first noticed this in 2011 and it was confirmed via a study in 2013.
Stuff like Pink Lady, Lady Alice, Honeycrisp, has never had any real consistency over the years
yeah i’m gonna have to call bullshit here. cultivars can certainly change over time because they’re living things, but like if i go pick a honeycrips or sweetango from the grocery store it’s gonna taste really good and it’s just entirely different from a gala, the difference between cultivars is extremely obvious even if they’re not as consistent as a processed product like cheetos. that website even talks about consistency and locality, assuming that the reason fuji apples are popular in japan is that they actually do taste better over there.
depends on the cultivar, some are pretty consistent (fuji) others not (pink lady, lady alice)
I’m not talking about slight changes like the fuji has gone through, I’m talking totally different tasting apples under the same cultivar name, from the same literal farm with a year of each other
I think your apple supply might just be shit. I can pretty consistently buy breeds of apple and get a similar experience
