• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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