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[Michael Nave <jmichaelnave@yahoo.com>]

I hope future generations never know the taste of Red
"Delicious" (and what a fraudulent name that was). It
is almost single handedly responsible for the decline
in apple consumption in the latter half of the 20th
century. No one ever ate a red delicious apple and
said "yum, I need to eat more apples." It's the worst
tasting apple I have ever experienced. It's not a
plain old sugary apple. It's a plain old tasteless
apple.


--- Mark & Helen Angermayer <hangermayer@isp.com>
wrote:

> The other day Red Delicious apples were selling for
> 49 cents/lb at the
> grocers.  Nobody is making money at that price.  I
> wonder if it won't be
> long before they disappear from the stores
> altogether.  It seems apparent
> Red Delicious is headed for back-yard orchard
> production only, but I'm
> wondering will eventually disappear completely? 
> Seems a strange sad thought
> that future generations may never know the taste of
> a Red Delicious, even
> though it's not that great (However, the current out
> of favor preference may
> in part be due to oversaturation.  I wonder after
> we've had our fill of
> Fujis, Galas, Honeycrisps, if we will yearn for a
> plain old sugary apple).
> Just a thought.
> 
> Mark
> KS
> 
> 
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