• superweeniehutjrs@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I’ve noticed the honeycrisp variety is comparatively cheaper this year than in years past. Closer to the price of other apple varieties at the stores I frequent. I go for pink lady apples recently though.

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      4 months ago

      Honey crisp is becoming more widely available as the variety’s patent protections ran out a few years ago. Now that you don’t have to have a special license from University of Minnesota to grow them we’re gonna be able to get the “generic.”

      Hell, I just planted one a few months ago.

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        4 months ago

        It makes sense to me that they’d get a lot cheaper when the supply is no longer artificially constrained.

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      4 months ago

      Pink lady here, too. I used to be a Gr. Smith kinda guy. But nowadays not so much. They don’t come with the kind of crispiness and juiciness and savoriness that I remember.

      Then again I don’t eat much fruit at all. Mostly berries if anything. Man, you put a bowl of cherries in front of me? You better ask for some quickly, before I finish it. My favorite.

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      4 months ago

      Back around 2002 I used to love the pink ladies from New Zealand, but now I can only get the ones from the US, and they are not as special.

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    4 months ago

    Golden Delicious or Granny Smith are where it’s at for apples, I don’t need any of these trendy hipster artisanal apple bullshit.

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    4 months ago

    Every time someone tries to convince me that apples aren’t just garbage fruit they ask, “but have you tried honey crisps?” Yeah, have you tried any other fruit? The worst fruit from the tropics is just way better than the best apple.

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          Sometimes I just want a sweet apple without the tart and for that SugarBee is perfect. In fact, that may be what the person I responded to was looking for.

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            4 months ago

            That’s valid. Just because I can’t relate to that desire doesn’t make it wrong. That’s why I mentioned it was just my opinion and specifically why I’m not a fan.