Omelet wrote on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:11:42 -0500:

>> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:22:26 -0700 (PDT), Sheldon
>> > wrote:
>>
> >> sf wrote:
> >>> ChattyCathy wrote:
> >>>
> >> >> <Yes, I know GIMF, but it's just not quite the same
> >> >> thing...>
> >>>
> >>> Not quite the same? Fuerte can't hold a candle to Haas.
> >>
> >> Typical cally-fornya stoopid... like saying a red delicious
> >> can't hold a candle to yellow delicious.
> >>
>> You're obviously not a real avocado OR apple eater.
>>
>> Red Delicious is horrible. Yellow Delicious isn't as
>> horrible. Neither is a first choice or even a fifth choice
>> for me.

> I prefer Galas.

I dislike all "Delicious" apples. I find them insipid and too soft in
texture. I do like Fujis and Galas and Grandma Smith's. Incidentally, I
find buying ripe pears or ripening unripe ones to be very frustrating
but the little Seckel pears are good when they are hard.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not