To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Liberty apple
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:07:11 -0400
In my limited experience of Macoun, it is anything but hard, super-crisp
("breaking") without being hard, the most attractive texture of any
apple I know. The supermarket Honeycrisp I have eaten here in Ontario
could be described as hard and don't have the extreme crispness of
Macoun. I suspect that Honeycrisp is popular because most people have
never eaten Macoun, and since Macoun is not grower-friendly they
probably never will.
Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Alan Haigh wrote:
[snip]
Macintosh has a much more
distinctive aroma, however and a special crunch which when hardened
through breeding, became Macoun and then Honeycrisp, 2 apples the public
generally finds vastly superior to Liberty.