Maybe it was their favorite apple because it’s excellent for cider production?
Someone explain to me why Red Delicious is still a thing in a world of Cosmic Crisp?
“Tradition”? Just like beating your children.
You’re right! I just finished beating them now. Wait, I don’t have any kids, whose kids are these?
Also check out author Chuck Wendig’s blog. He talks about apples (mostly - NSF[W|L] caveat lector)
Is there a filter to remove all the breeds of apple that are under a patent?
Oh yay, I get to address my two favorite common misconceptions about the colonial US at once.
There is an element of truth in the assertion that Ben Franklin owned slaves, but it’s mostly untrue. He participated in what he was taught to do from an early age, but seeing the effects of slavery first hand changed his mind. He spent the rest of his life as one of that era’s most outspoken critics against slavery, even purchasing a printing press to print anti-slavery brochures and pamphlets.
https://benjaminfranklinhouse.org/education/benjamin-franklin-and-slavery/
George Washington’s wooden teeth are a myth. Wood teeth certainly existed, but were extremely uncommon and only used by people who had nothing else. Most commonly, dentures of that era were made from ivory, animal teeth, or cadaver teeth.
Yeah, he didn’t have wooden teeth, he had slave’s teeth, teeth he got from slaves that he did own but because he was vewy sowy it doesn’t count.
In May of 1784, Washington paid several unnamed slaves 122 shillings (£6.10, equivalent to $195 in 2025) for a total of nine teeth to be implanted by a French doctor, who became a frequent guest on the plantation over the next few years.
your list is missing a fourth category
I love the apple rankings site but remain ever a Honeycrisp ho. I never liked apples until one day I was pregnant and hungry and at Target they had out samples of apple - out of desperation I grabbed one and holy crap, it was everything an apple should be, nothing like anything I’d had before, and I worked at a natural foods store, we got the pink lady and cripps and gala, it’s not like I had not tried to like apples.
It will ever be the Honeycrisp, the platonic ideal. Perfectly sweet, perfectly tart, and can be cooked in pies and taste good. I don’t need any other apple. My coworker prefers the Cosmic Crisp but I don’t.
I don’t know how widely available it is outside of Minnesota (Honeycrisp was invented here) but there’s a Honeycrisp hard cider called Loon Juice, it’s pretty good. I also saw a jug of non alcoholic cider made from them at the grocery store a few days ago.
OMG I see this is at our Total Wine. I will get some for our Halloween party for sure.
Yeah i was going to say i was the same as you then fell in love with cosmic crisp. Also ambrosia are great too, but if you found your apple love there’s nothing to change! I’m glad you found one you liked. I used to hate apples too after trying granny smith and red delicious. The first was insanely sour and not appetizing and the second was mushy apple shaped pulp board.
Fun fact: I live right near where granny smiths were invented (Eastwood in Northern Sydney). I’d like to sincerely apologise to the world on behalf of my city’s contribution.
Freshly pressed granny smith mixed with polish bison grass vodka is an absolute delight
AI could never
I checked out the website and found it hilarious, but apparently everyone else on here wants to fucking kill them.
A sand filled used condom or a new one? That makes a big difference in taste.
It’s not just the taste that would be affected by whether the sand was added before or after use.
Eating pigeon pie and squirrel isn’t about the food. Especially squirrel, fuck those shit’s. They did a few hundred in damages to my mango trees. Why am I upset? because the shit’s would knock em off the tree, take a couple bites and leave them for me to clean up. I wouldn’t care if they ate it all. They really are pests.
So maybe the apple pie, was the cherry on top of eating the squirrel. Not for the taste, but for the spite.
Came here for the apple love. Stayed for the absolute hate and vitriol.
Fun site, but ranking Pink Lady higher than Braeburn should be considered a mental disorder.
The most disappointing apple I’ve ever had was an Arkansas black (or might’ve been Alabama black). Cosmetically it’s a gorgeous apple. Nice and round and a deep shade a red, like what you’d expect to see used as a prop in a Snow White production. But when you bite into it it’s a sandy, mealy disgrace.
Oddly that’s the apple now ranked as Vomitous Filth
Lmfao
It’s like a flavorless Macintosh
Nice to see that Kanzi is ranked so highly. It is the best available apple in german stores.
Best apple in current meta is the SweeTango but I’m never changing from my of Red Delicious main
Sweet Tango is my number one even before looking at the site. Kiku would be my second. I couldn’t give Red Delicious a numerical score without finding out how many apples in the world there are and then it would be that -1.
Ew, red delicious
The total fucking worst.
The Budweiser of apples.
