What's your favorite apple?

Here are some for Jamin to choose from

Beauty of Hampshire

Airlie red flesh

Pink lady

Red love

Albany beauty

Belmont style

Braestar

Ambrosia

Feltham beauty

Arkansas black

Flower of Kent

If he gets desperate

Ploughman's

Dandee red

Queen cox

Cock pit

Buff

Lord Peckover

Knobbed russett

Or very desperate

Dog's snout

Sheepnose

Primate

Mother

Granny Smith

E. Bonix wrote:

Macoun or Cortland

I can tell you're an upstate New York person. As am I.

I grew up in apple country (near Dr. Davies farm stand and The Orchards, both in Rockland County) and Macouns were my favorite. They are the epitome of light, sweet-tart, and crisp--but ONLY if freshly picked. If you get them after they've spent a season in the seasoning shed, or wherever agribusiness apples go to rusticate, they're mealy.

Malus wrote:

Wow, the people have spoken and they like super sweet apples. Like Honeycrisp, which isn't a terrible apple but boy is it sweet. I like apples that have more complicated flavors like Winesap, Gravenstein, Jonathon, Empire, and for the short period that they're good, Macintosh and descendents like Cortland. Of the widely available varities that you can get at the supermarket and out of seaon Braeburn is the most interesting.

See, you know something about apples. Pretty much everybody who has contributed to this thread has named apples that aren't naturally occurring, legacy-type varieties. They're recent inventions of agribusiness. Gala? Honecrisp? Give me a f-ing break.

The apples you've named are great American apples. They've been around for a while.

This is a truly sad thread.

"My favorite apple is the Trump Spectacular. Gotta love the infusion of imitation vanilla and ham."

Shoot me now. Stick a Winesap in my mouth, though, before you roast me.

KudzuRunner wrote:

Pretty much everybody who has contributed to this thread has named apples that aren't naturally occurring, legacy-type varieties. They're recent inventions of agribusiness. Gala? Honecrisp? Give me a f-ing break.

The apples you've named are great American apples. They've been

You know nothing KudzuRunner.

Cortland was genetically engineered at an experimental government agency in 1898.

Gala was created on a small New Zealand farm in the 1930s.

Which is the more natural?

Empire

I love jamin, but this is really a post-of-the-year contender. Great stuff!

NY Jogger wrote:

aregrg wrote:

Actually, I am from western NY but no one other than people from western NY knows what western NY refers to.

It refers to somewhere between Yonkers and Canada.

nope the area from Yonkers north to Canada is not Western New York as a matter of fact except for NYC and LI it's as far from Western NY you can get and still be in NY.

Look at a map

Hard to believe a species that contains someone as directionally challenged as this was able to put a number of their kind on the moon.

I'm foaming at the mouth at how dumb you are. The Yonkers-to-Canada comment was a joke.