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[Michael Nave <jmichaelnave@yahoo.com>]

LOL

What were the hardest?


--- "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com> wrote:

> Arkansas Black is crisp?  That's like saying diamond
> is firm.  The 
> Arkansas Black I've had were the second hardest
> apples I've ever had.  
> You could break a tooth on one that hadn't been in
> storage for several 
> months, at least.
> -Lon Rombough
> Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape
> Grower, at 
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> Writers Association 
> "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
> For even more grape lessons, go to 
> http://www.grapeschool.com
> For all other things grape,  
> http://www.vitisearch.com
> 
> On Oct 24, 2007, at 10:07 PM, Michael Nave wrote:
> 
> One of the selling points set forth by many
> honeycrisp
> growers is that it is very crispy. In fact some say
> it
> is the crispest apple ever. While I much prefer
> flavor
> over crispness I just had an apple today that
> challenged Honeycrisp on both counts - Arkansas
> Black.
> We all differ in our tastes but to my palate AB just
> has more flavor than honeycrisp and it's easily as
> crisp if not more so. I haven't had AB in the last
> few
> years and had forgotten how good it is and how
> crispy
> it is. Growers of AB may want to piggy back on the
> Honeycrisp marketing. If people are really that
> fanatical about crispness then they need to try an
> AB.
> It would be interesting to see how they compared in
> blind taste tests. I have no doubt honeycrisp has
> done
> well in some tests because a crisp apple may come
> across better in a one or two bite sample than a
> less
> crisp apple. But honeycrisp doesn't have that edge
> over AB.
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