I’m old enough to remember when Red Delicious were the bomb. They really fucked them up by heavily breeding them for a tough skin for travel. They were so popular in the 80’s they bred them to shit.
Oh, holy crow! I wasn’t just wearing rose tinted glasses, they actually do suck now?! I can remember Red Delicious apples in the 90’s that’d make you wanna slap your grandma.
Not crazy. I live in Apple country (Ontario, Canada) and Red Delicious were my favourite apple until my 20’s.
A Red Delicious used to have a snap to the skin when you bit and a crisp crunch with a semi-sweet flavour. As time went on they bred more and more for the thick skin because it was so popular. In breeding that thick skin a lot of times what you get is an apple that’s mealy inside like a MacIntosh (fuck those abominations).
So you know little about apples and are also under 30 years of age?
Pink Ladies are B/A tier (not as shelf stable as many newer breeds and lack the intensity of a jazz, snapdragon, or cosmic crisp)
Red Delicious WERE S tier but breeding in the 80s for a larger more aesthetically pleasing apple deprived it if the bands of green and red that “marred” the surface. Those genes that made those colors contributed the apple flavor. If you can find an old cultivar of Red Delicious you’ll understand why the variety was called that.
Making me miss the red delicious tree that grew by my house growing up. They were my favorite apples back in the day but the ones at the grocery store disappoint.
I will accept any opinions on apples so long as it includes:
S Rank - Pink Lady, Granny Smith
F Rank - Red Delicious
I’m old enough to remember when Red Delicious were the bomb. They really fucked them up by heavily breeding them for a tough skin for travel. They were so popular in the 80’s they bred them to shit.
They didn’t deserve this future.
I miss my Red Delicious.
Oh, holy crow! I wasn’t just wearing rose tinted glasses, they actually do suck now?! I can remember Red Delicious apples in the 90’s that’d make you wanna slap your grandma.
Not crazy. I live in Apple country (Ontario, Canada) and Red Delicious were my favourite apple until my 20’s.
A Red Delicious used to have a snap to the skin when you bit and a crisp crunch with a semi-sweet flavour. As time went on they bred more and more for the thick skin because it was so popular. In breeding that thick skin a lot of times what you get is an apple that’s mealy inside like a MacIntosh (fuck those abominations).
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/red-delicious-apples-suck_n_5b630199e4b0b15abaa061af
As opposed to the current version, which makes you wanna slap your grandma.
The “best for” entry for Red Delicious on the site is “compost.”
It’s about right.
If you put granny Smith apples as S tier we have nothing to discuss, granny smiths are dogshit.
Granny Smith apples are amazing for purposes other than just eating an apple by itself.
As are pink lady. Absolute trash
Norway has some apple varieties that are even better than Pink Lady and Granny Smith (Summerred, Gravenstein, Aroma and Discovery are the bomb).
Good fish, cheese AND apples? Norway has a good thing going.
Oh yeah. I visited my friends’ neighbours in the countryside recently and they gave me some smoked trout that was so good I almost cried. I need more!
Gravenstein makes DELICIOUS apple sauce! I have bought a case from a local farm two years in a row.
So you know little about apples and are also under 30 years of age?
Pink Ladies are B/A tier (not as shelf stable as many newer breeds and lack the intensity of a jazz, snapdragon, or cosmic crisp)
Red Delicious WERE S tier but breeding in the 80s for a larger more aesthetically pleasing apple deprived it if the bands of green and red that “marred” the surface. Those genes that made those colors contributed the apple flavor. If you can find an old cultivar of Red Delicious you’ll understand why the variety was called that.
Making me miss the red delicious tree that grew by my house growing up. They were my favorite apples back in the day but the ones at the grocery store disappoint.