[NAFEX] Apple flavor
Dennis Norton
dmnorton at royaloakfarmorchard.com
Thu Apr 6 17:48:15 EDT 2006
<Turns me off of eating apples.>
Chris, say it ain't so!!
With over 7,000 know varieties of apples worldwide, I think you could surely
find at least one you could fall in love with! For me it's a fresh picked
home grown Royal Empire. Honeycrisp ain't bad either, but give me a Royal
Empire any time!
We have all of these varieites for many reasons such as disease
resitance,etc. but taste has played an important role. And taste varies as
much as there are people in the world. Flavor is why we have cultivars and
grafting. We know that a variety perpetuated through seeds eventually loses
it's original flavor and characteristics. Grafting to rootstock assures us
of maintaining the true original qualities of the cultivar plus many other
things. Ergo, NAFEX!
Dennis Norton
Royal Oak Farm Orchard
http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com
----- Original Message -----
From: mauch1 at aol.com
To: nafex at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 3:24 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Apple flavor
<<I accuse
him of not being able to differentiate texture from flavor. He doesn't
care
for them when mealy ripe which I do. For myself, a Red Delicious apple
ripened
in storage and no longer crisp is a delicious apple. For my wife and I, a
60
day old Mutsu is the very best apple! Even Gold Rush becomes eatable after
storage.
>>
And I thought it was only my father growing up at the end of the
Depression and
during WWII who liked mealy apples. But given the variety in the world
there had
to be someone else. Growing up, my Dad would say - try one of these,
they're
really good! Many times it would be a mealy awful apple.
I admit I like a crisp apple, but there's other soft apples that I like
such as Yellow
Delicious. I'm even happy when I find them starting to wrinkle. But
every Rome
I've ever tasted, many Red D's and most MacIntoshes have been soft,
meally, with
low sweetness and not much juice. Turns me off of eating apples.
Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6
40° 5' N 75° 51'W
~650 ft elevation
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