# I pit APPLES! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 8, 2013, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-apples/657854 "2013-05-08T23:47:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-apples/657854/81 "2013-05-10T23:52:27Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > I’ve had plenty of experience with non-supermarket fresh apples straight from the local orchard. I live in Virginia and actually used to buy produce for a small store that specialized in “local.” > > **Apples I liked** : Albemarle Pippin, Smokehouse, Black Twig, Mutzu, Spitzenberg, Gala, Fuji, Jonagold, Stayman, Ginger Gold, Virginia Gold, **(and a very small sweet old-time variety whose name escapes me but had the sweetest taste of any apple I ever had).** > > **Apples that were just OK** : Idared, MacIntosh, Jonathan, Cortland, Prima, Granny Smith, Gold Delicious, Red Delicious > > **Apples fit for horses only** : Rambo, Lodi, York > > See…lots of apples eaten over my 51 years of existence, some quite good\* for an apple\*. Thing is, they were all still apples and just not the sort of thing I’d get to excited about compared to other fruits. > > However, I’ve tasted melons of amazing flavor, the sweetest of seeded grapes, golden raspberries that make your head swim they are so good, plums of the highest order, peaches that light up the universe with a bite etc. etc. > > The best of the other fruits easily trump the best of the apples. All us apple critics are saying is that apples are quite overrated given their space in our lives compared with other fruits. To the bolded - was that maybe a [Pink Lady](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkfxvzaJWm1qjbvmfo1_400.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-apples/657854/82 "2013-05-11T03:12:24Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > I eat the whole thing too, minus the stem. My daddy taught me to eat them that way I probably eat apples in the most wimpiest way here despite my love for them. I eat them cut up into pieces with no core and all nicely scraped. The only thing that is left is the white stuff and the peel. Anyway, coincidentally I am making apple pie for the first time of my life tomorrow. And even more coincidentally, it is mothers day the day after! ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-apples/657854/83 "2013-05-11T04:32:09Z")
> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > To the bolded - was that maybe a [Pink Lady](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkfxvzaJWm1qjbvmfo1_400.jpg)? No, I don’t believe I’ve ever eaten a Pink Lady that didn’t come from the supermarket. The apple I was forgetting is [the Lowry](http://www.vintagevirginiaapples.com/apples/lowry.htm) ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-apples/657854/84 "2013-05-11T21:40:13Z")
Anyone who genuinely, honestly believes that apples are tasteless lumps of mush from the supermarket is invited to come visit me in semi-rural Central Pennsylvania. We grow apples that are so damn awesome that I don’t even bother to buy them at the supermarket anymore unless the weekly farmer’s markets are on their monthly winter schedule. There’s something incredible about eating fruit that was grown on a tree I’ve driven past before. And my favorite variety, the Nittany, is the best thing to come out of Penn State since Route 322! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-apples/657854.md?page=4)