# I HATE Apples. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 23, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063 "2008-11-23T02:50:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063/1 "2008-11-23T02:50:11Z")
The title pretty much sums it up. I cant stand them. The sound of someone biting into an apple sends uncontrollable chills down my spine. It has been that way since I was very young but I don’t know what triggered it. Does anyone else have that same reaction to apples? Oh, cooked apples are okay. I love apple pie. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Qwisp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qwisp/32/397_2.png) [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063/2 "2008-11-23T03:00:19Z")
People think I’m crazy when I tell them eating apples makes my tooth enamel hurt.I don’t mind the taste so much though. I think it may be the apple peelings that bother me. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063/3 "2008-11-23T04:00:28Z")
Awesome. Please ship me all your apples\* and I will eat them for you. \*Except any tasteless Red Delicious apples. You can use them for baseball practice or something. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063/4 "2008-11-23T04:02:57Z")
I’m a big fan of Granny Smiths and Golden Deliciouseses. I’ll eat other kinds of apple but I can mostly take or leave them. –Moved to Cafe Society because it’s about food.– ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063/5 "2008-11-23T04:07:37Z")
I’d like apples a lot more if they didn’t make me physically ill. They’re so tasty with peanut butter. ☹ If we’re going to talk about awful fruit, what the hell is up with pears? They taste nasty, the texture is always terrible, there’s about a six-second window when they’re properly ripe but not mush, and they’re a weird shape. Ugh. Pears. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063/6 "2008-11-23T04:32:49Z")
Try Asian pears. Shaped like apples, crispy like apples, and with a decidedly non-apple-like flavor. ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063/7 "2008-11-23T04:37:05Z")
I love pears. I will only eat apples after they have been sliced, only because I have always had a vague fear that I am going to leave a tooth behind in a whole apple. _Shudddeerr_ Now strawberries? Ecchhh. ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063/8 "2008-11-23T04:39:36Z")
I like them, but can only eat them when they are cut into slices. I can’t bit into a whole one. I used to sit next to this guy at work who ate 3 apples every day. He was, I think, the noisiest apple-eater in the world. Three times a day it would be: CHOMP! Crunch, crunch, crunch. CHOMP! Crunch, crunch, crunch. CHOMP! Crunch, crunch, crunch. Yikes! ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063/9 "2008-11-23T04:54:04Z")
I like apple products, but don’t like the fruit. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063/10 "2008-11-23T05:55:30Z")
I went a very long time without eating an uncooked apple, due to a bad experience I had in sixth grade. (While on a school trip to a summer camp sort of place–a miserable experience in every possible way–I ate an apple and promptly threw up.) Nowadays, so long as I stick away from the Red Delicious (and who’d want to eat one of those, anyway?) and am careful not to chew the peel too much, I can handle them just fine, though like most uncooked fresh fruits and vegetables, they still occasionally make me a bit queasy. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063/11 "2008-11-23T05:58:12Z")
I love red delicious apples. I like eating them a day or two after most other people would have said it was past its prime, when it’s just the slightest bit mushy. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063/12 "2008-11-23T06:02:32Z")
Seen a few people find worms in there apples while eating them whole. Not that I have a problem with protein or anything… ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Mrs\_Johnson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Johnson)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063/13 "2008-11-23T06:04:24Z")
The other night I had a late night snack craving and a particular green apple smelled absolutely delicious. I cut it up, and took a bite of what I anticipated to be a tasty apple… but no! It was extremely sour. I didn’t know apples could be that sour. I wouldn’t have been able to keep a straight face if my life depended on it. ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063/14 "2008-11-23T06:35:07Z")
Oddly enough, I love apples, but I hate apple pie. It is squishy and gross. Give me a sweet, crisp apple instead. ---
**Author:** ![wunderkammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063/15 "2008-11-23T07:03:26Z")
I can’t stand a mushy or mealy apple, or biting into thick, leathery apple skin. Give me a crunchy, slightly sour apple with thin skin, though, and I’m happy. I love tart, ugly russets, but I have to peel them as I go. This summer I did some work at an orchard, and I quickly learned not to trust a particular coworker. He’d come in from picking and offer me a chunk of an apple, and more often than not it would be some vile thing like an obscure, bitter, French cider apple or a bruisy Mcintosh. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063/16 "2008-11-23T07:06:38Z")
> [@torie](#): > > Now strawberries? Ecchhh. More for me then! So long as they’re in season… Or made into pierogi. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063/17 "2008-11-23T07:06:59Z")
I can’t remember the last time I bought an apple. I’m not sure if I’ve ever bought an apple. It’s the kind of thing I’ll eat if you give me one, but it’s not on my shopping list at all. I will eat an apple. I would likely refuse a slice of apple pie though. Blech. I strongly prefer tart, crisp apples. The bland sweet ones would get thrown away after one bite. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063/18 "2008-11-23T13:47:34Z")
My apples from our trees are almost gone. That makes me so sad, as I won’t have good ones again until late August. Hopefully I won’t have problems keeping the trees sprayed on time this next season due to a natural disaster. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063/19 "2008-11-23T14:07:01Z")
> [@Carmady](#): > > Oddly enough, I love apples, but I hate apple pie. It is squishy and gross. Give me a sweet, crisp apple instead. I’m with you. Cooked apples are icky. My daughter used to love apples, but a couple of years ago she started having an allergic reaction (her mouth and throat swell), so I don’t keep them in the house anymore. I really miss my previous go-to quick dinner of apples and cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063/20 "2008-11-23T14:33:43Z")
Count me in, too. Raw apples, good; cooked apples, bad. Applesauce as a side to a dish like potato pancakes is fine, but I don’t like apple pie or anything like that. I happen to make awesome apple dumplings and strudel, but it may as well be cardboard for all I want to eat it. Apple butter is noxious. I love Pink Lady and Cameo apples. Braeburn also. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-apples/474063.md?page=2)