Honeycrisp apples

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Freed Roger wrote:FYI-granny smith's are for baking, or eaten raw-giving you the squirts.

Notice how when you go to the apple dept of the store - it's something like this:
2 Honeycrisps $3.00
Braeburns $1.89 per lb.
Fujis 3 for $2
Johnathons golds 2lbs for $4.99
Golden delicious $5 per bag
Give's me a headache. Congress needs to pass the "Fairness in Apple Pricing Act"
You would [expletive] if you saw the price most chains pay for a case of apples.....

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wart57 wrote:You would [expletive] if you saw the price most chains pay for a case of apples.....
How so? Is it because they pay so little for the case, you mean? With a big mark-up?

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JL21 wrote:
wart57 wrote:You would [expletive] if you saw the price most chains pay for a case of apples.....
How so? Is it because they pay so little for the case, you mean? With a big mark-up?
From what I know...grocery stores make their money along the perimeter of the store and the liquor aisle...the dry goods aisles are pretty hard to squeeze a profit out of.

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I picked up some locally grown varietal whose name I forget last month. Fantastic, not just sweet but tart and complex.

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lukethedrifter wrote:I picked up some locally grown varietal whose name I forget last month. Fantastic, not just sweet but tart and complex.

Young Albanian? Oh wait - you said locally grown.

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I really like gala apples.

Red delicious apples, however, are mealy-textured and flavorless. If incest produced apples, they would be red delicious apples.

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We had a golden delicious tree in our backyard growing up, so I've always been partial to those. But apple nirvana was reached when we lived in upstate NY for a couple of years in the mid-90s. The cider mills, the orchards where we would go pick our own and the variety was fabulous. McIntosh were my favs up there, but I bought some recently and they weren't nearly as good as I remembered.

The honeycrisps I bought last week were spectacular.

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Honeycrisps are great for a dessert...just slice and eat...about 4 apples worth.

I had one today for lunch...so damn good.

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Radbird wrote:We had a golden delicious tree in our backyard growing up, so I've always been partial to those. But apple nirvana was reached when we lived in upstate NY for a couple of years in the mid-90s. The cider mills, the orchards where we would go pick our own and the variety was fabulous. McIntosh were my favs up there, but I bought some recently and they weren't nearly as good as I remembered.

The honeycrisps I bought last week were spectacular.
Aye, there's an awesome apple orchard a couple miles outside of town for me, right next to the kennel where I board my dog. Oddly enough, there was a fantastic orchard right outside of town when I lived in central Iowa as well. Hmm...

Perhaps I subliminaly choose to move to cities that have excellent apple orchards?

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Swirls wrote:Perhaps I subliminaly choose to move to cities that have excellent apple orchards?
This sounds sort of genius, whether it's subliminal or liminal.

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