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cshenk

barbie gee wrote:

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> On Mon, 22 Jul 2019, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> > On 2019-07-22 12:59 p.m., wrote:
> > > On Monday, July 22, 2019 at 11:50:04 AM UTC-5, tert in seattle
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > red delicious apples are one of the all time top mis-named foods
> > > >
> > > They USED to be a fantastic apple but I think everybody on the
> > > planet who grows and sells these have monkeyed around with the
> > > original plant so much it's become a terrible fruit.
> > >
> >
> > I never liked them.I always thought it was a misnomer. It occurred
> > to me that years ago, they were extremely popular but not so much
> > anymore, so I did a little checking. It turns out that I was right
> > about that. In the 1980s Delicious apples accounted for 3/4 of
> > Washington's apple production. It is still the biggest single
> > apple variety grown there, but its share of production is about
> > half of what it used to be as other varieties have replaced them.
> >
> >
>
> When I was a kid, Golden Delicious were exactly that. Nowadays, not
> so much.

Grin, try heirloom types which is what i have. They are smaller and
not as pretty but they taste so much better!