I support you in your apple choices

😲

they're going to execute me for this one Dune they're putting me beneath a comically large cartoon piano dangling from a fraying rope

yeah,... I'm reeling! I'm shook! I'm astounded! I didn't know anyone liked those atrocities

i saw that one on reddit it is what prompted this post actually

Can't believe this didn't get labeled as self-harm. Are they different in Europe?

at least i don't think they are

The ones here at least in Oklahoma last time I had one are almost waxy on the outside and mealy on the inside. The flavor is okay, i think unfairly maligned a little, but the texture experience is wildly unpleasant.

i love the texture tbh it's the best part

Apple discourse starts earlier and earlier every year….

Granny Smiths are quite enjoyable outside of pies.

Yes! They can be very good if you want a nicely tart apple

The Pink Lady is also a nice tart apple (slightly less so than Granny).

Red Delicious apples are the cardboard of the apple world: Bred for looks and shelf life, not taste or texture.They've got the glossy red look, but bite into one and it's got a texture like damp Styrofoam. They're tragic, given the VAST DIZZYING ARRAY of ACTUALLY GOOD APPLES available.

Sister, as someone who comes from one of the biggest apple producing cities in the western hemisphere, with over 50 different varieties grown in my literal backyard as a young'n. What the actual fuck is wrong with you

delete this

never bestie

++good provocation. But I'm not going for it.

cancelled unfollowed blocked adding you to weird lists

fair cop tbh

KILL

They're good now, but back when I was a kid they were tasteless mealy crap that mostly just looked good in the store. I still prefer other kinds of apple (Honeycrisp and Cosmic Crisp) but even Red Delicious have improved.

Cosmic Crisp is amazing and I love them in a way no other apple comes close.

It honestly is nuts how much better fruit tastes now. One of the few ways in which the world has actually improved instead of gotten worse. Like have you tasted some of the strawberries they’ve got now?!?

"Fruit tastes better now!" really puts all this nostalgia bullshit in perspective.

Yep, they're wonderfully juicy and tart. It's great.

Mira. Friend. Come visit the PNW when it’s safe to do so. Eat our apples, play tinwhistle, and learn what a good apple is. (Red Delicious are good only for threatening 8 year olds who won’t stop playing Young Collins on the tin whistle for 10 hours a day)

For real. Red 'Delicious' & Golden 'Delicious' are the most garbage apples on earth. I feel sorry for everyone who's never tasted any of the dozens of better apple varieties. Ping: @chuckwendig.bsky.social

Depraved

All apples are yummy as long as they are fresh

I disagree, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

Wowww actually problematic

This is the worst apple opinion that has ever existed

i don’t have it in me to be this brave today but you didn’t lie 🫂

THANK YOU FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT 🫂

i do i really do. it’s a type of texture that no other fruit is able to match, and it’s good. i understand the folks looking for a honeycrisp or fuji experience might find it off putting but sometimes i’ve been disappointed because the apples i had didn’t have the red delicious quality i wanted

Bestie I've never understood you less than I have at this moment right now

You aren’t allowed to have opinions anymore

HOW?!!!!

what the FUCK

PNW peeps must surely all agree that Mira simply doesn’t know what she’s talking about.

it seems weird that y'all think there's a bad kind of apple. apples are great

Apples are amazing…. at many different things. But the history of apples is one where 90% of all cultivars are terrible at almost everything. A cider apple? an apple that stores well and makes good animal feed? Inedible. Washington and Oregon are rich in apples, but most cultivars are Bad Eats.

A massive chunk of the total variance from growing apples is “you get apples that aren’t fit to eat” Some are good for cider or food! There’s overlap in terms of which ones you let cross pollinate again! The default state of apples is unlike brassica, maize, or nightshades. We wif more than we hit

see. I was gonna qualify my statement a lot more, but I opted for pith

counterpoint— you cannot get decent ACTUAL cider out here worth a goddamn. it all tastes like apple juice

Gotta head south of PDX (look, just take the train, obvious I-5 is a penance no one deserves) and suddenly you get proper “neither heartburn in a can/bottle/growler but also not “we’re pretending this is dry wine” fuckery.

I’m not advocating for actually visiting, but Keizer down through Ashland has some pretty good ciders on tap. Worth it? Maybe not. Nice if you’re there? 100%

mmm apple soju

Soju: because little old ladies who unofficially run your favorite Korean restaurant want to see what you’re made of (I’m made of wavering knees and a lot of giggles, for the record)

I have once been comped an extra pitcher of soju because “we like you” and then comped extra noodles because “whoops, we’re sorry, eat these before you drive” and the mocking laughter that went with them made me feel so very very loved.

this is coming from new york me. i am an empire/macintosh bitch

THEY'RE SUBTLE NOT EVERY APPLE HAS TO BE AN IN YOUR FACE EXPERIENCE

BUT THEY SHOULDN’T BE MUSHY TRASH THAT HAS LIES IN THE NAME!

THE SKIN IS LIKE PLASTIC

So many apples have skin like that

yes, apples that SUCK

Apples can be peeled if you don't like the skin 😌

and then you’re left with the styrofoam that is a red delicious

This. This is the reason it's the Worst Apple™️.

i don’t think i’ve ever seen someone be so wrong before

do you also enjoy eating the sand at the beach

no but i do quite enjoy wet bread

not even a bit sometimes i'll just take a slice of bread and hold it underneath running tap water for a few seconds. yummy :)

So when did you find out you were British?

i'm insulted that you think Dutch cuisine isn't as atrocious as British food

a diet composed entirely of fries with mayo and hash brownies never struck me as being bread sandwich equivalent but i have to defer to the insider viewpoint

what the hell are hash brownies

This is a crime, Im calling the Hague

good luck, i live there the ICC will never think to search their own back yard

Overcursed

did a duck write this?

Holy fuck

.......................................................warm or cold?

cold usually, haven't tried warm yet might be worth trying actually thanks for the idea!

i once describe the dried-up mayonaise on the lips of the bottle as "smegmayo" and this is still the worst food post i've ever seen on this website

thank you for motivating me to obsessively keep my mayo threads carefully wiped…

I’d rather eat smegmayo than soaking wet bread

for when white bread isn't white enough

england and dutchswamp shaking hands over the creation of the smegmayo and water sandwich

-yo is the japanese particle that works like an exclamation point, so smegmayo reads like shouting smegma

Adds a new dimension to it

ZAKENAYO! SMEGMAYO!

Um What

SMEGMAYO????? OMG 😭😭😭😭

smegmayo?? 🤢

oh wait just saw liv's post 🤮

Am I on BlueSkunk'd?

need to try it

thank you for being willing to hear my controversial new ideas

Mira wtf how did you ever yell at me over my food opinions!!!!

This feels like a crime

Immoral if not strictly illegal

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUUUUUUCK

yim yum :)

Getting your culinary inspiration from professional hotdog eaters is definitely something

okay here you’re on your own 😅

this is very funny in combination with your @

Wut

you heard me

My wife is half Dutch (genetically, fuck that guy). I need to find out if this is a nurture-vs-nature thing.

Cursed food choice

your ancestors are weeping across ages yet to come

that's a LINE damn

I hate you so much lol

WHAT

yummy :)

the dream of The Blitz is alive and well in… the netherlands?

Rotterdam was levelled the brits don't get all the claim to fame

going back in time and telling my uncle not to liberate that shit

the bread my factory makes comes pre-wettened

Meets daily caloric intake and fuel emissions standards.

i… what

there is something very wrong with europe

no this is me specifically being fucking weird

Isn't that just pudding

Every day is a fight to keep my son Nidal alive.He desperately needs milk and medicine, but the blockade leaves us with nothing. We are begging for your support to get him the care he needs. 💔

When I was in first grade I told the teachers I was allergic to red apples just so I could avoid the red delicious apples they handed out every afternoon.

hey if you like them then by all means, go hard

valid choice when there aren't other good choices. in the usa the other options have a much better texture a lot of people dislike the skin of red delicious apples

Oh! I am so sorry that you've never gotten to taste a good apple. <3

no I like Pink Ladies better but Red Delicii are still like an A-tier apple to me

Oh you sick fuck. If I were religious, I would pray for you.

Oh no

Red Delicious Apples: Only when picked directly from the tree and biten into immediately after that.

I'm calling I.C.E.