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[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 6 fun7 insightful - 5 fun8 insightful - 6 fun -  (2 children)

Not gonna lie, red "delicious" apples are the worst kind of apple I've ever ate in my entire life.

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Not sure if they're still sold, but the red delicious apple I knew was from Washington State, had no brand name, and was a rectangular shaped, bright red, delicious apple, unlike that shown in the video. If those are gone, that's a big loss. This video is very well done. I tend to get organic apples at Whole Foods &c, and haven't noticed the brand names he mentions, and I can't remember the last time I saw a red delicious apple. Washington varieties are here. I suppose my favorite apple is much like a tart version of a McIntosh apple, much like those I grew up picking from a tree in the front yard. In addition to what he says in the video, though there are now 7,500 cultivars of apples, I recall a couple decades ago being told by a grocer that there were 125 varieties of apples in the US that he considered when buying them for the grovery. I suspect that these varieties multiplied exponentially after corporate greed was involved in manipulating cultivars for pretty apples.

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I think they can call anything a "red delicious" so maybe the original is delicious, but what you buy at the store is quite likely a crappy fake. It's like if you could sell Dr. Thunder (worthless garbage) as Dr. Pepper (the best drink ever).