• disco [any]
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    4 years ago

    Honey crisp? More like honey piss.

    This post brought to you by Fuji gang.

  • Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I think I read somewhere that Red Delicious used to actually be good, but they bred it to be better for mass-production and long-term storage at the expense of taste and texture.

    • JayTwo [any]
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      4 years ago

      I remember them being good when I was a kid. Not sure if my taste was shit, if they really did take a tumble in quality, or a little bit of both.

      I'm a xennial, on the cusp between millennial and Xer, btw, so I'm not young young, especially with how this site skews, but I'm not talking about a very long time ago, either.

    • fusion513 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I think that's just an urban legend. Fun fact about apples is that the common varieties are all grafted clones of its original tree! Naturally occurring apples are generally not all that large or sweet... but occasionally there'll be genetic mutation that makes a tasty variety!

      If you plant seeds from an apple, you'll generally get a tree that yields very sour apples that doesn't resemble the original apple you ate!

        • fusion513 [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Heck yeah! Add some sugar and you've got a one-of-a-kind delicious tangy sweet and sour applesauce you can't buy in stores! They're just not so great for snacking on by themselves.

      • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        It has to be real. I loved the shit out of them when I was a kid in the 80's. I ate R&D's like it was the last food on earth and they were so fucking good. Now they taste like ass.

  • Zoift [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    You don't like vaguely apple-flavored pears?

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It bugs me that they sliced that apple is sliced horizontally.

  • MelaniaTrump [undecided]
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    4 years ago

    Where my cosmic crisp gang at

    Seriously try one. They came out last year and it's like honey crisp on roids

    • mwsduelle [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Just make sure you ring them up as red delicious at the self scanner to save a bunch of money.

      • MelaniaTrump [undecided]
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        4 years ago

        yeah plu 4016 baby

        although the cosmic crisp freezer backlog has come online. They taste worse but only cost like $3.50 a lb, which is the same as honey crisp basically

  • unsuresenior [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Locally grown apple gang. The pink ladys, Fujii, and gibson golds are absolutely delicious