An excerpt from Red Delicious:
Oh how the mighty have fallen! Believe it or not, the coffee grinds in a leather glove known as “The Red Delicious Apple” was once a robust firebrand credited with reinventing the apple from mere cider-fruit into a full-fledged lunch-worthy sidepiece. It even won the Stark Brothers apple contest in 1894. Likely your great-grandma’s favorite apple, this once flavorful Prometheus has been mass-produced into desolation.
Nowadays, you can find this thick-skinned, flavorless, mealy imposter unwashed in a dirty wicker basket on the floor of a convenience store. What a sad state of affairs. It’s time to hang them up old man, your time has passed.
- nhgeek ( @nhgeek@beehaw.org ) 8•1 year ago
Old Reddit quality post (I mean peak Reddit not the dystopia its quickly becoming). Awesome site! Very funny and useful. Thanks for posting.
- NeonSkies ( @NeonSkies@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 8•1 year ago
As an enjoyer of apples, I feel seen :D So very many mediocre ones out there, and yet they keep hanging on!
- FrickAndMortar ( @FrickAndMortar@beehaw.org ) 6•1 year ago
Now here’s someone who is passionate about his hand-fruits!
- Lenguador ( @Lenguador@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
Clearly they’re just ragging on every apple because they didn’t rank Fuji as the best. What’s the point of a list if they’re just going to blatantly lie?
- anxietysloth ( @anxietysloth@beehaw.org ) 4•1 year ago
My favorite apple is opal so that’s the first one I looked up when I came across this website a few weeks ago. I didn’t know what to expect but definitely not what I found. 10/10 website
- GeneParmesan ( @GeneParmesan@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
He also does video reviews of the apples on TikTok
- rancidity9480 ( @rancidity9480@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
I feel a hard disagree on macs, but I can’t fault someone for their love of apples.
- Gork ( @Gork@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
Tried the Cosmic Crisp a few years ago but I think it lives up to its hype. I agree through, the Red Delicious apple is a mealy textured mess of a fruit.
- Juniper ( @JuniperusVox@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
I worked on a apple orchard, and I couldn’t disagree with this list more lol. They’re also missing the best apple ever: Cox’s Orange Pippin