# Damn, Honeycrisp apples are big this year. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2014, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-honeycrisp-apples-are-big-this-year/700721 "2014-10-08T02:46:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-honeycrisp-apples-are-big-this-year/700721/1 "2014-10-08T02:46:31Z")
I love them, and especially love the time of year when they are less than 2 bucks a pound. But… they are freakin’ huge. I have a big mouth, and don’t know that have ever had trouble getting an apple started until these. And every place that has them, they are the same. I actually started weighing them out of curiosity. The latest was 16.5 ounces. One apple over a pound? A single apple that costs 2 bucks seems so wrong. (and yes, I bought some of the freak ass Honeycrisps, they are so good) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-honeycrisp-apples-are-big-this-year/700721/2 "2014-10-08T02:54:37Z")
That’s just more apple to love my friend. Guess I’ll have to stop by the grocery and see if we have some in stock. (They hardly ever do, they go so fast.) ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-honeycrisp-apples-are-big-this-year/700721/3 "2014-10-08T03:05:42Z")
Went to the North Georgia apple orchards Sunday. Can’t beat just-picked apples, but I wish they grew King Davids in GA. Oh well, trip to an Indiana orchard tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-honeycrisp-apples-are-big-this-year/700721/4 "2014-10-08T07:25:08Z")
I just bought three and they were 2.2 pounds (huh, exactly a kilo, didn’t notice until now), so not so big as the OP, but still pretty big. I often find the organic options to be smaller and not as pretty, so maybe that was a factor here. I didn’t look at the conventional ones to compare size, should have. It was an impulse purchase, influenced by reading this thread before going to the store! I just ate one, and the harvest this year is indeed super tasty. Love the crunch. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-honeycrisp-apples-are-big-this-year/700721/5 "2014-10-08T10:21:26Z")
The ones I bought were huge as well. I’m taking them to work and finding a friend or two to share the love with during our lunch breaks. I was joking that they are as big as one’s head, but tastier! ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-honeycrisp-apples-are-big-this-year/700721/6 "2014-10-08T10:34:50Z")
It’s true! I just bought two yesterday at Kroger and they were almost a pound each - and I picked out smaller ones. Kroger has them[on sale](http://krogermichigan.mywebgrocer.com/Circular/KROGER-407/00407278/Weekly/2) right now, at least here. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-honeycrisp-apples-are-big-this-year/700721/7 "2014-10-08T11:30:42Z")
I always cut up apples nowadays, so size doesn’t bother me. ---
**Author:** ![LynnM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@LynnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LynnM)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-honeycrisp-apples-are-big-this-year/700721/8 "2014-10-08T13:05:49Z")
At my local Safeway, I weighed a few huge honeycrisps, priced at $2.49/lb. Each apple was about 1-lb. At Trader Joe’s, these huge honeycrisps are $1.29/each. Honeycrisps for $1.29/lb? Doesn’t get any better! ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-honeycrisp-apples-are-big-this-year/700721/9 "2014-10-08T15:37:17Z")
I’ve had the sense that that seems to be true of apples in general recently. More and more, when I go to buy apples I seem to be confronted by these giant mutant fruits. The alternative seems to be to buy a whole bag of tiny doll-size ones. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-honeycrisp-apples-are-big-this-year/700721/10 "2014-10-08T16:41:20Z")
Hmmm, honeycrisps! I’m enjoying one right now (sliced)… it’s a bit larger than I remember from last year, but I wouldn’t call it a monster. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-honeycrisp-apples-are-big-this-year/700721/11 "2014-10-08T16:45:51Z")
I’d never heard of honey crisps until a month or so ago, when I started seeing them at my local farmers’ market. Got a basket, and it went fast around our house. The following week, I wised up and got two baskets. Damn, they’re good apples. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-honeycrisp-apples-are-big-this-year/700721/12 "2014-10-08T17:06:39Z")
I praise the lord every day in fall that my dad had the foresight to plant honeycrisp trees in his backyard when I was a teenager. My car smells like apples, my apartment smells like apples and I have so many bags of them, I’m going to have to cook about half of them down into applesauce because I can’t physically eat that many apples before they go bad. ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-honeycrisp-apples-are-big-this-year/700721/13 "2014-10-08T17:15:49Z")
The orchard I get honeycrisps from had plenty of “normal” sized ones, but definitely some big ones, too. I’m not complaining. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-honeycrisp-apples-are-big-this-year/700721/14 "2014-10-08T17:42:54Z")
I saw Honeycrisps for $3.50/pound yesterday at Whole Foods. That’s a damn expensive apple. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-honeycrisp-apples-are-big-this-year/700721/15 "2014-10-09T01:03:18Z")
Totally agree about huge apple sizes nowadays. The wife bought a bag of Jonathons (an older variety), and they were tiny by comparison. On the other hand, it was just the right size - Honeycrisps are too big. We live close to Lake City Minnesota, where Pepin Heights Orchard is the prime producer of SweeTango, the successor to Honeycrisp (both were developed at the University of Minnesota). SweeTango puts Honeycrisp to shame, almost too sweet, and even bigger. They are expensive though. We get bags of them ($20 apiece) for gifts to others; they don’t last long.