Are red delicious apples possibly the worst fruit in existence?

So is corn. The world is a fucked place, man.

Fucking destroyed.

literally the shittiest apple tho, texture is just awful

When I was a kid, we moved into an old farm house build in 1901. Amongst various other old time implements, we also had a single apple tree that had been there as long as the house, it seemed. When I was a kid, it still gave a rich harvest of these sour little fuckers.

What can I say, as eating apples they are certainly an acquired taste, but for cider and all sorts of cooking that call for apple, they are excellent. They stay months edible in cellar, too. For jamming, we brought white tramsparent from my grandparents' place, though.

Sadly, now this fully served tree has started to dry and I have still some years to wait before the new grafts will to give new antonovkas.

>honeycrisp which are the best apples
>are a hybrid and you need a special tree to grow them

Every day I check Maddox's patreon page for the dose of pleasure watching it decline gives me.

It's dragonfruit, you cunt

No

Granny smiths are the best
Look their origin up on Wikipedia and you'll find out where they come from and what makes them so good

Elstar is the best
Kill yourself

You didn't even look up the granny Smith, kill you're a self

NICE

How did none of you faggots mention Fuji apples (objectively the best)? This thread is just full of failure.

How is Dick doing? I liked him

For me, it's Fuji.

This.
Not this. Granny Smith is worst apple.

Horribly. He alienated all his friends and fans and money and said his own book was garbage and there's a parody of Maddox called madcucks on patron that makes more money than him now.

Fuji is best apple.

Is there a good book or site to read about apple history and the different breeds? I love apples and want to git gud.

Kikus are the best apples

They're like fuji, but even more sweet

literally just go to an apple orchard and talk to one of the kids working produce

i used to work in an orchard and you'd be surprised how much these kids know about them just by working around them.

All you really need to know is this.
>Fuji and Honeycrisp are the top tier eating apples.
>Cortland is cheap as fuck and come in huge varities. very economical for baking but kinda bland
>McCoun (or however the fuck you pronounce it) and empire make really good baking apples. Empire apples will make the dish more firm and mccoun will make it more "loose"
>Red delicious is a pleb apple. anybody who says its their favorite has no fucking idea what they are talking about.

Mutsu was also a low key favorite of mine. We only had a limited number of varieties so my knowledge is kinda basic.

and their shelf life is like 3 days at the most.

slight frost? boom apple is dead
got a fruit fly in your house? boom they just devoured half of your bushel
slightly tap the surface? boom apple is bruised and fucked up
don't touch it at all? boom apple has like 20 little bruises and indentations on it.

>>Fuji and Honeycrisp are the top tier eating apples.

this user knows what's up

>worst fruit in existence?
Maybe only the worst apple, there's no such thing like a worst fruit in existence

Dick Masterson?

fpbp

I thought he hated these?

What is wrong with you? Perms are fucking Delicious.

Unless you eat them before they rippen

Dick is making bank off the Biggest Problem in the Universe fan base.

omg. yes. I love these. I grew up in Ukraine, and these were all over the place.
I would sometimes eat them before they rippen, and had mad diarrhea.

SHOTS FIRED ON APPLE STREET

You mean Maddox. Right? He asked how Dick was doing.

>texture is just awful

the red delicious doesnt actually have a shitty texture.
the reason why its so mushy and gross is because they get like that after being sitting on the shelf and shipped all the way across the country and finally into the store . by that time it turns mushy

but the apple is not really like that if you get a fresher batch

If its fresh, they're mealy and the skin is too thick.

My go-to apple. Fujis are tasty as hell too.

here
Oops.

that means you've been eating shitty cheap strains
red delicious should be crisp and just mildly sweet

Corn is a grain

>$310
Lmao, even reviewbrah gets more donations than Maddox

Yea Galas are god tier. They were always 2/$1 at the supermarket near a dorm where I lived for a couple of years, so I've eaten a ton.

RDIDF out in full force tonight

best apple

>Not honeydew
Either way, was right, faggot.

>That pic
I lost my shit

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Red delicious was one of like 3 or 4 main varieties in the US until the middle of the 20th century. It wasn't great, but had good attributes for mass production. I think the mainstream supermarket explosion in variety came in the 1980s, followed by a lot of new hybrids after that (U of Minnesota's honeycrisp in the early 90's was a game changer).

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>bite into one of these shits.
>the flesh is green

lived with my grandma for 2-3 years when i was a kid and just about every day she would prepare some kind of dish that used tomatoes, (which i was probably forced to eat) and refused to stop or tell me why she was crazy obsessed with them even after i tried to convince her that the cheapest shittiest tomatoes on the cheapest shittiest cheese she could find at a grocery store had no flavor or nutritional value and wasn't a fancy upperclass snack

my hatred for pleb tomatoes continues to this day even though the farmers market varieties can be great

Truly the fp is bp desu senpai

Who /Jonagold/ here?

They are the worst apple. They were bred into being the perfect commercial commodity apple. They taste like crap and people don't like them. This almost killed the whole industry decades ago. The lesson is that you can't put production volume and shelf life entirely before quality.

always with the low hanging fruit...

Who /pinklady/ here?
>Just enough tart to get you going and just enough sweet to balance it out

Honorable mention for Gala apples. They've got some solid well rounded stats.

>le tomatoes are bad meme
When will this shit end?

You mean Sour Jerries?

Hey, folks, what's the difference between a Golden Delicious Apple and a newborn baby?

[spoiler]I don't cum all over apples before I take a bite out of them[/spoiler]

>most supermarket tomatoes

there is a difference

not the guy you replied to, but I LOVE me some delicious heirlooms, and you can find some half-decent ones at the supermarket that at least have some flavor, like the romas and a few of the "on the vine" ones.. but the regular ones you find in a pile are basically just flavorless water balloons.

my nigga

Just because cornbread is a thing doesn't mean it's a "grain". Banana bread is a thing, too, but it doesn't mean banana's are grain's. Ever heard of "sweet corn", dumb-dumb? Its the fruiting body of the Maize plant, kind of like how mushrooms are actually fruits too

I have 3 different apple trees in my small garden, then 100 meters away from my house there are like 30 different breed trees which are publicy available to eat from/harvest by anyone. Why should I care about this shit-tier gmo breed?

If you're acknowledging that breeds exist you're eating GMOs retard. Farming modifies genes.

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Some of them have grown naturally by themselves and they have been planted a long time ago during USSR times

Ah yea, romas are good if you can get them ripe.

>mushroom
>fruit
They aren't even plants and certainly not angiosperms. If you meant fruiting body that is a completely different concept. I think you might be the dumb one.

>grows from ground
>is a plant
Way to pass kindergarten, dipshit.
>If you meant fruiting body
Oh, are you going to argue semantics now? Yes, the body of the fruit - the part that you fucking eat. My grammar has no baring as to whether or not corn and mushrooms are fruits. They just are. Arguing about it on a chinese cartoon board isn't going to change that. Just because you post on fuckin' Veeky Forums doesn't make you a botanist or Gordan Ramsey.

>ctrl f
>no mention of McIntosh
What the HECK Veeky Forums, McIntosh is far and away the best apple

Macs are for fags and hipsters.

I have no clue what kind they are, but I have a tree that makes these puny little apples that are incredibly sweet and are so red they almost black in color. I love em.

Include me in the screencap

>are you going to argue semantics now
Yes you moron. That's what you people are doing when you argue whether a tomato is a fruit or vegetable or whether corn is a fruit or grain.

[spoiler]I am a botanist btw :^3[/spoiler]

>best apple
um, that award goes to granny smith. only children don't like tart apples

Have people ITT really never had a good red delicious before? They're not all mealy with thick skin. They can be quite delicious and crunchy and juicy. You people must live is some shitty places

Stop being sensible, we have a rabble of groupthink here.

They can't be, it says right there in the name that they are delicious.

That would be persimmons.

>best apple

Damn, you guys sure spell Fuji Apple pretty weird.

>Not knowing the difference between Macintosh and McIntosh

Yeah. Only me and dad would eat these through-out the season. The rest of the family preferred "white transparent".

literally was gonna post the same thing

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wew

blast from the past

why buy an apple that needs to be "perfect" for it to taste moderately good?

all the other ones at the store have been shipped across country and sat on a shelf, yet they manage to taste okay.

this one was supposed to be pretty good.

Say what you will about Steve Jobs but the man know how to market something for way over its priceline.

I really like Jazz apples. A really nice balance between tart and sweet, and are nice and crispy. The cultivar only started being sold commercially in 2004, so it's not as popular, but I think it's very good nonetheless.

This slut is somewhat correct. I used to work produce at a Whole Foods and we got a few sporadic cases of organic red delicious apples. They werent popular at first because anyone that can afford to shop at Whole Foods already knows red delicious apples are mealy prole trash, except these weren't. They were damn fine apples. So I made a point to sample them and promote, they really were excellent apples. Nobody believed me when I said what it was. But they bought that shit up because they were good. Sometimes I wish I had stuck with the produce dept game.

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