What is with that website shilling for Sweetangos so hard?
I’m allergic to apples and certain other fruits like cherries
Doctors usually don’t believe it’s a real allergy
Throat gets unbearably itchy after just a small bite
Cooked fruit is totally fine though like pies
Most web sites have a more promotional attitude towards their product descriptions. I guess big Newton Pippin industrial complex lost out to more well funded nazi apple propaganda.
Apples are so interesting because the old ones were definitely pretty bland, and not for eating fresh. More for cooking into pies, or cider. But also we’ve experienced some apple enshittification due to mass marketing/long distance shipping. Imo peak apple varietals for direct eating are ones that were popular in the 1920’s/30’s; in the context of the USA, these mean the orchards planted by New Deal/CCC operations are usually a good bet. Where I live there are a bunch of abandoned, semi-feral orchards from this era and it rules.
More people need to try Opal Gold apples.
Isn’t that the website that gives granny smith a rating far lower than it deserves?
Don’t understand all the Granny Smith apple hate. It has the best crispness and sour flavor, or at least before Cosmic Crisp came out.
Here’s what you do: Take a can of sweetened condensed milk. Simmer it, can and all, for 3 hours. Slice a granny smith into wedges. the apple, not grampy smith’s wife, you psychopath. Dip the apple into the resulting dulce de leche. Enjoy the combination of tart apple with the creamy sweet caramelly goodnes. Probably die from whatever heavy metals leeched out of the can. Only six months before the dirty bombs fall. Lucky sod.
On the next episode of Hopeless Kitchen, we explore the difference between a chickpea and a garbanzo bean. See you next time I guess.
What a joke of a site they don’t even have a ranking for my favorite apple. Liberty (NY 55140-19) are great eating apples. The only problem with them: they’re only in season once a year.
That’s how seasons work, ideally.
Honeycrisp or GTFO.
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?
they’re a pretty shade of red and shaped nicely. Red Delicious look great in a fruit bowl for decorative purposes.
Is it still a thing? I thought they moved most of the existing red delicious rootstock over to cosmic crisp branches. And I also think the transition takes time, so there might still be stragglers. Cosmic crisp is less than a decade old.
Beats me but all these old dry bags of sawdust are still being offered in all the groceries I’ve been to.
“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.
“He wasn’t a slave owner! He just owned slaves, dumbass!”
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
Yet more evidence that Granny smith apples are ingredients and are not fit for human consumption without modification
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