The best bit about juggling red delicious is that there's no way to tell how many times I've dropped them!

@Fattipotato79

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@Rabbit-the-One

2 жыл бұрын

Ah man, you only needed 30 more seconds on the video.

@Orinslayer

2 жыл бұрын

Still looks very impressive to see someone juggling while talking. Its not easy at all.

@davidlevy706

2 жыл бұрын

Now try juggling them and saying "Snow White" (instead of "Sleeping Beauty"). 😜

@monkfishy6348

2 жыл бұрын

Great video. If I could make one recommendation it would be to turn down the contrast a little in post. It really darkens your face, creating deep shadows, especially around your eyes. It creates a very stark and harsh overall look.

I'm only about ten minutes younger than dirt, so when I was a child, the red delicious apples I ate were sweet, crisp, juicy and often had yellow patches. We loved them. Over the decades, the flavour declined, the juiciness declined, they became mealy and they were uniformly red. Now I know why--thanks!

@jessikaaustin2638

2 жыл бұрын

"10 minutes younger than dirt" is an expression I've never heard before. So clever and funny

@GrainneDhu

2 жыл бұрын

@@jessikaaustin2638 thank you!

@prussiaball8229

2 жыл бұрын

@@GrainneDhu Yeah gotta use it too.

@paintedshoebox3619

2 жыл бұрын

Question: Can you think of any modern varieties that remind you of the old taste and texture?

@GrainneDhu

2 жыл бұрын

@@paintedshoebox3619 Braeburns do, a little, and so do Galas in texture but both taste differently. There are a variety of modern apples that taste really good but none of them taste like those old fashioned Red Delicious before everything that made them good was bred out of them.

And just how roses are available in more and more vibrant colors but no longer smell like roses.

@AtomicFrontier

2 жыл бұрын

Wow! That's really interesting, didn't know that!

@CrimsonAkato

2 жыл бұрын

in my garden still have relapses that smell like good roses, just the pretty dark pink big petals . just beautiful

@user-vn7ce5ig1z

2 жыл бұрын

I think this is true of a lot of stuff. Just ask anyone over 30-40 and they'll tell you that pretty much nothing smells or tastes like it used to, everything is bland now, and not just because they're older now and lost their senses. 😒

@fletcherreder6091

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if it has anything to do with them both being in the family Rosaceae.

@bradleynoneofyourbizz5341

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-vn7ce5ig1z Right! Bell peppers, tomatoes, round/seedless watermelons...let's cultivate everything so it's brighter, prettier, trendier! It's only the taste and aroma we lose!

Dude, you just answered a question from my childhood that I never thought I'd understand. In the late 90s, my family took a trip all over New England to visit my parents' friends. At one of the stops, all the adults got super pumped about apple picking at this small, local orchard. I didn't understand the hype at the time, but my mom tried to explain that these were apples you couldn't find anywhere else. My tiny child brain didn't understand what she was talking about. I'd heard of those apples before - Red Delicious. I was unimpressed. It wasn't until she finally got me to try one, that I believed her. And It. Blew. My. Mind. It was the best tasting apple I've ever had, and I ate 4 of them just walking around. I stuck to the name Red Delicious for years, convinced that I would stumble across the same ones at a grocery store. (Spoiler: I never did find an apple that tasted nearly as good, esp not no damn Red Delicious). After years of failure, I let it go, thinking that I probably remembered the name wrong, or I just got swept up in the hype and remembered the taste wrong. But now I understand the significance of it all. That orchard had the OG Red Delicious apples. My parents and their friends were right about the specialness of that orchard. And this video just clarified years of confusion & frustration for me.

@AndrossUT

Жыл бұрын

A lot of modern red delicious cultivars aren't bad from the tree. After about fifteen minutes the sugars convert to starch and lignin. This also causes all the perfumes and complex sugar alcohols responsible for flavor to disappear, either gassing out or getting converted to starch.

@jpm000001

3 ай бұрын

Do you remember where or the name of this orchard?

I'm old enough to remember when Red Delicious apples were awesome tasting...crisp, sweet, and had a wonderful snap sound to them when you bit off a chunk. It's sad to see they've pretty much gone the way of most tomatoes now. Tomatoes are so Bland anymore...they've bred the acidic aspects out of them in order to promote a 'pretty well shaped tomato with a consistent color' - and that acidic property was what also contributed to the flavor. Because of this lower acidic property in tomatoes, you can no longer can tomatoes without adding an acidic additive (such as lemon juice or citric acid) to the process. If you don't then your canned tomatoes can go bad. I've started to buy vintage, or heirloom tomatoes...they are often colored streaked, sometimes even purplish in color and lumpy looking things but they sure taste so much better than the 'perfectly smooth mono colored' tomatoes they sell in the stores.

@elk3407

2 жыл бұрын

I disagree about your assessment of tomatoes. There are low acid varieties of tomatoes that taste amazing, but none of them are red. There are well shaped tomatoes with consistent red color that taste good, but they are high in acid. It's somehow the intersection of the two where tomatoes become tasteless.

@TheRoadhammer379

2 жыл бұрын

I only eat locally grown red delicious apples, 8-10 apples a day, 😂. Still sweet, juicy and that beautiful sharp snap when you bite them.

@Draggonny

2 жыл бұрын

I've started growing my own tomatoes too. I've grown tomatoes from seeds from supermarket cherry tomatoes then I started buying my own seeds. The supermarket ones tasted exactly like those in the shops so it's clear that the taste is all in the genes. I've not managed to get my hands on any heirloom seeds yet, they ran out within days. But even widely available F1 sauce tomato seeds make a lovely tasty crop that is way tastier than canned chopped tomatoes. I'm going to keep working on producing my own food so I can eat like a king. 🙂

@StormyPeak

2 жыл бұрын

@@elk3407 I was comparing heirlooms to the common tasteless tomatoes that are sold in grocery stores....and not with maybe various other varieties one might find at a farmers market or some gourmet area of a gigantic store. I live in a small town and our main grocery store - which isn't small by any means...but no where near the size of of some of those city stores that take up a few acres of land...lol. Our store won't even stock cherry tomatoes anymore...everything is a grape tomato. Some years ago they use to at least offer a choice. But even a few years back the tomatoes were already bland...and it didn't matter if you were buying a beef steak, or a cherry tomato type - they all tasted just about the same. And I use to love the tart taste of a cherry tomato. The only way to get that taste that I remember from the 1960's and 1970's, is to buy heirloom seeds and grow tomatoes that haven't been genetically looked at to get rid of the acidity. I watched a video a long time ago about why commercially grown tomatoes are now so bland. There were a list of reasons...hydroponics eliminating trace minerals/elements that soil can offer...being like one of the reasons, but also - as those growing the tomatoes tried to come up with a tomato that was 'beautiful' and about the same size and shape, as well as more sturdy to survive shipping...that aim to make a tomato be all those things, they had to reduce that acid in them. And if I recall correctly, there is a connection with the loss of acidic properties to the taste. I cannot remember the name of the chemical that gets reduced along with the acidity...but it's that chemical that is a good part of what makes up the flavor in a tomato. But I know that in the last 20 years, tomatoes that use to have a variety of taste...now all of them taste almost exactly the same regardless of what kind it's suppose to be.

@benmolenhouse

2 жыл бұрын

The reason tomatoes from the grocery store don't taste good is because they are harvested under-ripe while still green. The tomatoes are then gassed with ethylene when ready to be distributed/sold. The process turns the tomatoes red, but the fruit itself isn't exactly ripe.

Red Delicious: Great if you want a bland, sandy apple with a leathery husk.

@alextheconfuddled8983

2 жыл бұрын

Spot on with the description here, they almost feel soft instead of crunchy

@kjs8719

2 жыл бұрын

They are great if you eat them fresh and picked at the right time. But Goodluck getting that from a grocery store

@alextheconfuddled8983

2 жыл бұрын

@@Unpopularity asymmetrical is fine, but i dont like the oblong shape, its cursed asf lol. The apples lose goddamn weight

@LamanKnight

2 жыл бұрын

I was going to suggest we should start using Red Delicious apples to make jack-o-lanterns. Then I remembered that when I was really young, my mom once did exactly that. So, there's proof of concept there.

@archkull

2 жыл бұрын

@@LamanKnight in high school the lads and I used some to make pipes for smoking weed once It worked and I still stand by the fact that every other possible use for red delicious apples is superior to eating them

I used to eat Red Delicious exclusively for years, just because that's what my family bought when I was growing up, and it has "Delicious" in the name right? My mind was blown when I finally tried other apples that actually have flavor and no mealy texture.

@Loupgarou21

2 жыл бұрын

I was lucky enough, growing up in the 80s, where I got to go to apple orchards in Minnesota where there were a lot of university of Minnesota cultivars being grown, and I’d love those apples, but when I’d go to any youth activity, if we got apples as a snack, they were always red delicious, and they always tasted like crap and had that mealy texture. I remember one youth group I was in, they would also sprinkle some kind of citrus juice on them, and for a long time I blamed the juice for making the apples worse, but I’m sure it was just the shitty red delicious being shitty all on their own.

@izzycurer1260

2 жыл бұрын

My family always bought red delicious, and so when I was a kid, I just assumed I hated apples.

@xtldc

2 жыл бұрын

@@Loupgarou21 - An enzyme in apples called polyphenol oxidase utilizes oxygen to generate products that turn apple slices brown after a while. Rubbing lemon juice on an apple once it is cut is a common way to slow the browning because the juice creates a physical barrier to oxygen in the air and the enzyme is less efficient at low pH. Any other liquid with a low pH would work too - but lemon juice tastes better than sulfuric acid.

@davidm4566

2 жыл бұрын

Some red delicious literally live up to their name. Some are just bland and not great.

@EyesSewnShut

2 жыл бұрын

Just like leaving the matrix or taking the red pill lol

I’ve grown apples from seed before, most of them end up small and rather sour but some end up as really cool new varieties, I’ve even ended up with one that’s red inside instead of pale yellow.

@grassroot011

2 жыл бұрын

That's because they probably were all hybrids which when you plant a seed from one it reverts to one of the parents, and you don't get the hybrid that you planted. Just like tomatoes that are hybridised.

@pebblepod30

2 жыл бұрын

Wow that's awesome, I hope you sell the new varieties, I would love to see that! And add to genetic diversity of plants.

@aliyahblidner

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe you could graft parts of the trees you like onto other trees to expand how many of those apples you get!

@katherinemurphy2762

2 жыл бұрын

I once knew a farmer who successfully crossed golden delicious with granny smith, and the results were so good! Unfortunately he died the next year, so I was never able to get a second harvest from him. ☹

@BLAQFiniks

2 жыл бұрын

@@pebblepod30 Apple as a species is already one of the most genetically diverse plant, therefore it never breeds true by seed^^

"Red Delicious - at least they got the red part right." - John Oliver

It's amazing that the people in the food industry never considered that people would stop buying their red delicious apples after finding they were always horrible tasting. That looks would only get you a little bit of distance in sales. Proof that industry became managed completely by short sighted fools at some point.

@rivahkillah

2 жыл бұрын

They know you have to buy some food. It's similar to how political parties know you don't really have a choice.

@nolongeramused8135

2 жыл бұрын

Well, just remember what they did to tomatoes and strawberries. Both are picked green and shipped green. Their natural flavors never mature, they just change color.

@NoJusticeNoPeace

2 жыл бұрын

They're not entirely wrong. If people grow up with a particular food, they'll be suspicious of anything else. When I was a kid, red delicious apples were sweet and crunchy. I'm in my mid-50s, and now red delicious apples are tasteless, mushy, and leathery, but most younger people won't have known anything different. It's the same story with other produce like lettuce and mushrooms; what you find in supermarkets are among the blandest and most nutrition-free out of an astounding number of species, but because, for example, iceberg and romaine may be the only types of lettuce most people have ever tried, they don't know the buttery sweetness of boston or the peppery spice of arugula.

@garethbaus5471

2 жыл бұрын

@@NoJusticeNoPeace arugula technically isn't a lettuce, it is a cruciferous vegetable.

@mightymoose1158

2 жыл бұрын

Ya but the people who made those changes made their money and for a lot of people that’s all that matters.

My mother would pack Red Delicious apples in my elementary school lunches in the late 50s to early 60s. I finally asked her to stop. I just hated them. "But they're _Delicious_ apples." No, Mom, that's just marketing. They would keep well all through the winter and taste just as bad from the beginning of the season to the time the last ones rotted.

@Avrysatos

2 жыл бұрын

my mother would try to get me to eat them in the 80s and I refused. They were mushy and flavorless. When she let me pick out my own apple for eating I grabbed a green one, it was very crisp and tart but in a really nice way. She thought I was weird but I noticed she never ate the red delicious apples, she just made us eat them.

@blackkennedy3966

2 жыл бұрын

@@Avrysatos even today the green apples still taste better than red declicous. they have a sweet yet acidic taste.

@blakem2902

Жыл бұрын

@@blackkennedy3966 in my opinion the green ones are too acidic and hurt my gums

@GeraltofRivia22

Жыл бұрын

@@blackkennedy3966 I like apples that are a combo of red and green, like Fuji or Pink Cripps. The best of both worlds.

@nintendo_dringus

Жыл бұрын

I can't imagine the bravery it would take to finally ask your mother to stop packing red delicious apples after 60 years

You don't know how many times I've had a conversation with somebody about how bad Red Delicious apples taste. Finally! An answer! Great video, very informative, and your storytelling skills rocked. I was engaged the whole time.

I grew up with an old Red Delicious orchard behind my house. The farmer would always hand us kids an apple, and they were so good! They must have been old-stock apples from before they were bred to be nasty, because they were huge, sweet, and crisp. But when the old farmer died, his kids turned that wonderful orchard into a subdivision.

@karenbuchert3377

2 жыл бұрын

Incredibly sad to hear fantastic orchard was chopped up for houses. Sigh.

@yvellebradley2502

2 жыл бұрын

Your story makes us cry.

@russs7574

2 жыл бұрын

Better the land sprout a horde of McMansions than start growing those abominations that pass as Red Delicious.

@greybone777

2 жыл бұрын

The original varieties had so much juice, you couldn't contain it in your mouth. My uncle had an orchard in cashmere wa in the 60s. They were definitely better but they changed the apples to keep longer in controlled atmosphere storage.

@iunnox666

2 жыл бұрын

Farmer's kids like that will be speading all the money on increased food costs. Selling family land is so incredibly foolish, and ravaging farmland to put up a bunch of crappy townhouses should be stopped before there's nowhere left to grow food.

When I was little, I used to get excited when my mom got red delicious apples instead of the normal MacIntosh's- they tasted so good. Everytime I've tried a red delicious in the last 10 years I wound up spitting out the first bite. Thanks for explaining why! I thought I was just a particularly stupid child.

@druid_zephyrus

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, almost all produce on USA shelves is bred for those two factors cost and presentation. It has been occurring so long that now people get literally irate if they see a shelf empty. Over 20% of food is sent to landfills because they went past the company's tested opinion of a proper sell by date (Exp dates...not regulated). If Americans didn't feel the _need_ to see full shelves we could all save a lot of money, assuming, of course, that the company shares its savings with the consumer and employees but increasing wages and decreasing costs (fiduciary obligations...). So, nah, it wasn't you. It is the consumer market and the susceptibility of the average consumer to propagandized commercials that has made our produce taste bad. Which in turn makes processed foods need more additives to counteract the creations process leading to an increase in salts, fats, sugars, throughout the process. Can't have strawberry flavored ice cream if no strawberry tastes like strawberry. Therefore add in flavoring and extra fats and sugars to mimic the original flavour. The reason, imo, processed foods are poor for your diet is because we bred out the nutrition and flavour for cost and presentation and need to fill it back in. Take orange juice, by law, to claim "not from concentrate" you must not have reduced the solution by heating. So what does the orange juice industry do? They filter out all pulp.. They deoxygenate the juice so it can be stored much longer. This causes the juice to lose all natural orange flavour...so then when it isnall recombined for bottling orange flavour is added in with additional sugar to recreate the fresh squeezed taste...which is why fresh squeezed taste so different. Oh another another aside. Because of the banana plague that is why banana flavored candy does not taste like a banana you would get in the store. That man made flavoring was based of the now nearly extinct species/variation that was mass farmed from before the plague. Last aside I promise. Bananas are a citrus because they have segments and their seeds would be at the meeting point of those segments. They have three segments and we have bred out all but the tiniest of specs of seed. Cut a banana in half, width ways, and stick your thumb in the very center. You will get three segments.

@NoJusticeNoPeace

2 жыл бұрын

The sad thing is the Macintosh is disappearing. People have become so accustomed to super-sweet apple varieties that Macintoshes have fallen out of style, and fewer and fewer orchards are planting them. No one bakes any more and people get their cider in a can, so the Macintosh may disappear from store shelves eventually.

@MonkeyJedi99

2 жыл бұрын

@@NoJusticeNoPeace And yet, that is the only apple I like.

@rachelrasmussen1101

2 жыл бұрын

@@NoJusticeNoPeace I thought that was my imagination! I couldn't find ANY Macintoshes for pies this fall. I had to bake with Granny Smith's like a weirdo. That is sad sad news....

@wholeNwon

2 жыл бұрын

I tasted my first red delicious at least 60 yrs. ago and it was disgusting even then. As a teen, we had 2 apple trees in the back yard. I think they were Albemarle Pippins. A variety said to have been favored by Washington himself. They bore heavily on alternate years and my mother used then for all of her pie and dumpling baking. The kitchen smells were wonderful and the flavors lifetime memories.

Has someone who grew up on a orchard, I can say that apple breeding is wild. We had a technical adviser that would create new cultivars by simply mixing pollen of a variety of apple with some of another variety. Boom, in fall you had a new apple. They got weird mix like apples that tasted like passion fruit or banana popsicle. Another one was small with rough brown skin and tasted like pear extract.

@chem101studygroup4

2 жыл бұрын

I’d like to learn more, can you point me toward that guy or maybe some resources on novelty apple flavors?

@BooBaddyBig

Жыл бұрын

You got a new apple variety in just one growing season? How does that work?

@Appletank8

6 ай бұрын

Every Apple seed has wild variations, so planting a different seed will produce different apples.

I was over a friends house once when I was younger, and picked an apple from the fruit bowl that I’d never seen before. It was big, and a beautiful deep red, I thought for certain it would be delicious, yet soon found out after biting into it, it tasted like pure cardboard. 😂 That was my first and last time ever eating a red apple. They’re pretty tho.

The tomato shares a similar sad story, that also was selected to be easily transportable and good looking but ended up loosing all the taste

@pillowkitty6

2 жыл бұрын

Even homegrown I find our neighbor's big beefsteak tomatoes watery and bland. I only ever bother to grow the small sun gold cherry variety. They always pack a nice sugary punch, great for salads and curry, and one plant inside a pot produces more then a single household needs! Had success growing ground cherries this year too and they are a major hit.

@michaelimbesi2314

2 жыл бұрын

Oh my god! I’ve always wondered why every time I get tomato, it tastes like wet celery! Now I know.

@blazertundra

2 жыл бұрын

@@pillowkitty6 yellow pears are the best. Sweet as any other fruit and grows like a weed. Even when they die prematurely of disease, you still get enough to last a month or two.

@johnyjo3973

2 жыл бұрын

This is one tame it works in my favor, because I hate the taste of tomatoes but love their texture on hamburgers :P

@winterborn82

2 жыл бұрын

if you can get them, mortgage lifter tomatoes are really good. lots of flavor and beefy. they aren't just mush like most you buy in the store.

I didn't know yellow spots on apples were correlated with taste at all, but now I know why I've always thought apples with them tasted better

@ashleyhamman

2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps that's why there's *Golden* Delicious.

@ObjectsInMotion

2 жыл бұрын

I always thought the opposite, the more yellow the more I disliked them

@snakecake-mw7vw

2 жыл бұрын

Well, it's because of the archnemesis of the Red Delicious, The Golden Delicious

@Qwerbey

2 жыл бұрын

@@snakecake-mw7vw I don't know if it's that because I specifically like the multicolored ones

@suppenkaschper4686

2 жыл бұрын

it might be only related in this specific cultivar others might have bound their taste genes to completely different thraits like for example unregular fruit size or a specific fruitflesh color or consistency, thin peel etc.

Cool. It’s no wonder all the “Fuji” apples that stole my heart has never been the same since. 😔

The last good tasting Red Delicious was the Starking, circa late 60's - early 70's. They really tasted great, but sometimes did not have enough consistent red appearance to impress the buyers. Shortly after that, "sport" varieties took over that were more consistently red, and increasingly, much more bland. I know. I lived in Yakima Washington, and worked in the packing houses back then.

@greybone777

2 жыл бұрын

A Wenatchee Wa native 👍 agrees

When he said that Red Delicious originally were claimed to be the best tasting ever my initial reaction was "well, they can't have shit on Honeycrisp..." Lo and behold the degradation of Red Delicious was the impetus for Honeycrisp! Now time to find some SweeTangos...

@keithcamac8963

2 жыл бұрын

SweeTango apples are legendary in my book, I can't always find them, but when I can it's a good week!

@CampingforCool41

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve noticed storebought honey crisp have gotten worse and worse tasting over the years as well. They still have better texture than red delicious but are usually very flavorless. Luckily we have our own honey crisp apple tree.

@DAFIZZIF

2 жыл бұрын

@@keithcamac8963 Just picked some up on my last run to the grocery store... they are amazing! And actually less expensive than Honeycrisp!

@DAFIZZIF

2 жыл бұрын

@@CampingforCool41 I find that it depends on the grocery store. The higher quality stores that I like to frequent either way usually have decent Honeycrisps. Though just tried SweeTangos and they are just as good if not better than good Honeycrips and should be more consistent and less expensive, so that is my apple life from now on. Having a tree sounds awesome, but sadly I rent in the city.

@BonaparteBardithion

2 жыл бұрын

@@CampingforCool41 I've noticed that about honeycrisp too, but even the blander ones are still good for cooking.

When I was young we had a Gravenstein apple tree in our back yard. The apples weren't pretty and didn't store long, but the flavor was intense, on the tart side, crisp and literally dripping with juice on every bite. When they went ripe my mother would make a years worth of applesauce in a few days to use them before they went bad. The only place you can find them now is a farmer's market, and only if you're really lucky.

@Jaundice__

2 жыл бұрын

They’re easy to find here in Washington.

@absalomdraconis

2 жыл бұрын

I've seen the juice once or twice in Oklahoma.

@BonaparteBardithion

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jaundice__ I'll have to keep an eye out for those because that sounds delicious.

@Jaundice__

2 жыл бұрын

@@BonaparteBardithion Here there are some small orchards doing apples most people have never heard of King David, Arkansas Black, etc. If you love apples, Washington has got them. Farmer’s market’s are a good place to seek them out.

@torkakarshiro5170

2 жыл бұрын

Grafensteiner are my favorite too. :-)

My family used to receive a styrofoam case of carefully packed red delicious as a business gift each fall. They were lightyears better than what was in the store. Huge, crisp, sweet, tart, and had yellow spots near the core that were amazingly sweet. The other corporate gift we received was a case of tins of Vermont maple syrup. 🍁 🍎

@Akkbar21

8 ай бұрын

Sounds cool. Nowadays the cosmic crisp and honey crisp are amazing almost 100% of the time. Amazing. At least here in WA state.

I always wondered why my parents bought undelicious Red Delicious apples -- it turns out they were buying the memory of a good apple I never knew. Now I think I can sympathize with that habit -- years ago, I loved Gala apples from my grocery store. In more recent years, I still bought them but wondered why they had become so consistently mushy and bland. This might be the explanation. Time to switch!

I always wondered why those were called red delicious when they're literally the worst apples I've ever tasted lol :P I love your videos, just discovered your channel last week and I'm so excited to be here so early after a new upload :) keep up the great work!

@ThatsaToilet

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao true

@astropenguin5448

2 жыл бұрын

You will not be disappointed at his content at all, arguably some of the best out there on the informational side if KZread in my opinion

@Eralen00

2 жыл бұрын

agreed, its too sweet, no complexity, and has a chalky texture

@pastorofmuppets325

2 жыл бұрын

I'm only 43; & I remember RD Apples still tasting pretty damn good in my pre-teen, & teenage years. They had yet to engineer all the flavor out of them yet at that point. Nowadays they are just "Mealy" tasting, flavorless, hulls.

@GriseWeisshark

2 жыл бұрын

Same. I ate some before and thought that they would be the best ones but the mushy tasteless flesh and thick skin is terrible. It's the total opposite of what the apples should have been so yeah, it went directly to trash.

You found a really interesting story here, and told it brilliantly. Your best work yet, and I think my favourite video I've seen in the last week's.

@AtomicFrontier

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It's a bit outside our regular content but it was super interesting. Plus good excuse to go eat some apples

@SahilP2648

2 жыл бұрын

@@AtomicFrontier bro you play Gwent? 1:53 that took me by surprise xD Gwent is the best CCG I have ever played.

@AtomicFrontier

2 жыл бұрын

@@SahilP2648 Havent played it yet but am obsessed with all things witcher. It worked too well not to use it

@Nathouuuutheone

2 жыл бұрын

The last week's what?

I went out and got a bag of SweeTango apples after watching this video, and they're the best apples I've had in a *long* time! Thanks for making this video!

I remember being a kid in the 90s and 2000s and despising apples specifically because of red delicious. It changed my world when I discovered Fujis, the crisp texture blew me away. Finally an apple that was crisp like a Bosc pear! And now Honeycrisps are nice too, but I'll be sticking with Sweet Tango now that I know they're just honeycrisp with quality control.

@agoogolofgeese

2 жыл бұрын

Favorites that I’ve tried recently are Cosmic Crisp and Sugarbee, with Sugarbee being absolute #1. It tastes like what I want the honeycrisp to taste like.

The overall presentations is hilarious, the sudden props and tangential metaphors were great. Very informative too.

Literally my only impression of red delicious apples before this point was that they were the gross ones my elementary school always served because they were the only ones cheap enough to buy in bulk

@greybone777

2 жыл бұрын

Yes and the apples sold in bulk were the next thing to culls. Spent my time from 73 to 2016 in orchards and fruit warehouses. 30 years of maintaining fruit processing machines 😋 👌

@katherinemurphy2762

2 жыл бұрын

I never liked red delicious. 🤢 I didn't mind "the insides," but the skin was always revolting to me. I once described it like disintegrating leather in your mouth.

@legrandliseurtri7495

2 жыл бұрын

As someone who hates apples in general, I'm not super invested into this situation, but it's still interesting.

Love this video. This guy makes me think in a young David Attenborough, with his calm manner of speak and soft voice delivering great information.

When I was a child, Red Delicious were hard, crisp, and had wonderful flavor. The only other eating apple available was the Golden Delicious. It was softer and bland. I didn’t care for it. Red Delicious became mealy and Golden Delicious disappeared. I like to combine three different varieties in pie, for different textures and flavors: one cooking apple plus Granny Smith and Pippin. Last fall the stores had no cooking apples, like Braeburn, Cortland, or Macintosh, and didn’t have Pippin either.

I always wondered why Honey crisp apples used to be freaking awesome, and are now kinda meh. I thought I had just gotten used to the flavor.

@pompe221

2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering that too. Glad I know why but it's still disappointing.

@MajiggerRose

2 жыл бұрын

They're still miles better than Red Delicious, but I agree. I noticed this year that they weren't as juicy or sweet. Thankfully, they're still edible (for now) unlike Red Delicious.

@darkdudironaji

2 жыл бұрын

@DJ3ST3R They're still good, but they really suck compared to a few years back.

@Metalkatt

2 жыл бұрын

There's a newer variety--Cosmic Crisp or Cosmic Crunch, I can't remember which. Those are amazing.

@greybone777

2 жыл бұрын

Many of the newer varieties are hybrids that seem to regress in quality over the years I saw this in granny Smith and Fujii. Spent my whole life in the apple capital, Wenatchee Wa in the fruit industry. Have definitely watched the red delicious go back and forth in quality as they experiment with root stocks and spur varieties.

The search for lost varieties still goes on today! My mother was born in Wenatchee Washington, the center of apple growing in our state. She planted apple trees in every yard where she and my father lived for most of their 54 years of marriage. As a child, I remember my mother’s tree with 5 different varieties of apples growing in our front yard, in the prime spot for sunshine.

@aaron-gz

2 жыл бұрын

@@kasumi8874 STFU Anyway that's a cool story Brian. Their story sounds worthy of a book.

@iXonSpiral

2 жыл бұрын

No way! I’m from Wenatchee and apples have always been such a big part of life growing up. I even worked on Tree Fruit Research.

@jjju3

2 жыл бұрын

HELP if apples are such a big part of washington culture why has every apple ive eaten from local stores so fucking bad lmao. Idk, maybes a spokane thing. Nothing is ever good here.

@briangarrow448

2 жыл бұрын

@@jjju3 My guess is that your local stores aren’t buying the good apples. Those are worth far more money than you tight ass locals are willing to pay for. They get much better prices selling the good ones to export markets. Or that you are getting older and haven’t figured out yet that your own taste buds are declining in sensitivity. So you constantly whine about how everything sucks nowadays. I’m sure it’s the first explanation. Damn corporate apple oligarchs!

One of the most interesting aspects of apple cultivation is the grafting of whatever cultivar to disease resistant rootstock. Whole fields of crab apple trees, gnarled and stunted former swamp creatures with practically unpalatable fruit, have been bred all around the world in a secret war against pests and disease, which they enjoy natural resistances to. Every commercial apple tree is a Frankenstein's monster of parts grafted together to produce a certain fruit on a tree of a specific size that will be suited to survive against whatever local blights mother nature might throw their way.

I just ate a wonderful Heirloom-type Red Delicious apple from a local farm that sells locally online. They really ARE delicious. Everyone should try them if you ever have a chance to!

This is the answer to a question I thought beyond asking most of my life.

As a kid red delicious was the fruity nectar of the gods. Now it’s the nectar of malicious armpit sweat mixed with evil tuna fish

@horsepowermultimedia

2 жыл бұрын

In other words, the nectar of the devil.

I got a Red Delicious apple about 20 years ago that was magnificent! Sweet, clean and crisp flavor… it definitely was an outlier but it made me understand how red delicious must have originally got it’s name.

I've always considered Red Delicious a cooking apple, i.e. put it in something with a lot of sugar. I’m confused as to why my favorite eating apple the McIntosh apple seems to becoming hard to find in stores. About the same time something called a Fuji apple seems to be taking over. You have convinced me to try both the Honey Crisp and Sweet Tango apples if I can find them. Edit June 2022 I tried both Honey Crisp and Fuji. The Fuji was a little sweeter, but I didn't like the hard fresh of either. McIntosh had flesh that was sweet and easy to bite into.

@Neceroe

2 жыл бұрын

The Fuji apple also isn't that bad either

@SariEverna

2 жыл бұрын

I've had Honeycrisps, and they're pretty darn good. My current favorite are Ambrosias, though. I used to like Galas, but either the newer types spoiled me, or they're going the way of the Red Delicious because they seem pretty mealy these days.

@commissaryarrick9670

2 жыл бұрын

you need to try pink lady apples they are the best apples to me

@adrieleje851

2 жыл бұрын

I actually really like Fuji, and grab them when they're on sale

@smallkoifish4370

Жыл бұрын

personally, honey crisps arent that horrible, better than the Red Delicious, but i think any apple is better than Red Delicious

If you haven't yet, try a Cosmic Crisp. Back in circulation in November and it's by FAR the best tasting apple I've ever had, and it stays fresh forever. My wife and I have been looking into becoming a licensed grower because they're just that damn good. Huge apples too.

@notasian7620

2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic

@anonemoose7777

2 жыл бұрын

I'll try to find a cosmic crisp, sugar bee is my reigning favourite cultivar but I'm always on the lookout for new quality apples. Anybody know a good online apple supplier?

@coreygolphenee9633

2 жыл бұрын

Its good but the pink lady is the pinnacle

@pompe221

2 жыл бұрын

Cosmic Crisp is my new absolute favorite apple.

@delcox8165

2 жыл бұрын

Weird, I tried it for the name several months ago, and thought it was awful.

If you aren't totally addicted to eating apples, you've never had a really good one. Seriously, I got absolutely hooked after years of mediocre tasting local ones. Better than candy bar none

@FelineBlue

2 жыл бұрын

What's your favourite kind?

@anonemoose7777

2 жыл бұрын

FelineBlue I've eaten many apples from all around the world (cuz I love apples) and without a doubt my very favourite is the Sugar Bee. As explained in the video there are tradeoff and in this apple every tradeoff is for taste and texture. So often times they will have little bruises and also have a rainbow of oranges and reds and yellows with no real pattern. But despite their unassuming look when you cut the bruises off and don't mind the colour you get a light crispy bite with a sweet taste that is reminiscent of honey and apple pie more than an apple as you're likely used to it. I only see them in the shoppes during the season but I always buy them up because they're my very favourite lunch, a wonderful mid day pick me up.

@greygoose8803

2 жыл бұрын

personally no matter how good they taste i wont eat them because the skin makes my gums hurt terribly and its not worth the effort to take the skin off by hand.

@alwaysuseless

2 жыл бұрын

@@greygoose8803 Peeling an apple with a SHARP vegetable peeler takes maybe 3 seconds.

@villageidiot9867

2 жыл бұрын

Use a potato peeler

West Australian here. One of my loveliest memories was being in a Jonathon/Red Delicious orchard (the way they were grown here) on a very hot day just before Easter when there was a sudden thunderstorm and a whole lot of the hot, ripe apples burst. The perfume of Red Delicious flesh in the air was overwhelming and swoon-inducing. Red Delicious were so good because they were (for a brief few weeks around Easter) so crisp and sweet and tangy.

I've had red delicious at a farmers market that were allowed to ripen on the tree before being picked and they truly are a delicious apple. Crisp and sweet with lots of sugar spots in the flesh, the ones grown in Australia still have the yellow stripes in them. The Supermarket ones are a bit meh though, you need to get them from a grower who cares about the flavour.

@were_all_fact6026

2 жыл бұрын

Better yet is when the temps hover around a frost. Somehow the flesh of the red delicious then becomes insanely flavorful and sweet. I've tried honey crisp and wasn't impressed. Store red delicious are pretty dull and I understand why most don't like them. It's similar to store tomatoes and homegrown tomatoes, when you eat a properly ripened Red Delicious.

@ladyangua1

2 жыл бұрын

@@were_all_fact6026 Yes I'm sure that was a part of it, the area these were grown in was Stanthorpe which I'm sure gets lots of frosts. It's the only place in Queensland (a subtropical state) that ever gets snow!

SweeTango stock going through the roof after this.

@BeezyNgeezY-ul1nu

2 жыл бұрын

Have you eaten them? I have bought 2 boxes every year for the last 2 years. They taste amazing and make great pies. Seriously it's the best fukin apple you will ever have

@owenmcquarrie586

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I bought a bunch of SweeTango recently by mistake and by God I’m never buying another apple again.

@colejames6438

2 жыл бұрын

I got them for the first time just the other week. They’re so good

@FukaiKokoro

2 жыл бұрын

Opal apples are my favorite

@yvellebradley2502

2 жыл бұрын

@@FukaiKokoro Are Opal varieties from New Zealand?

My dad grew up thinking wild apples were the best - because there was an ancient apple orchard on the farm he grew up on (that was probably around a century old when he was eating off it in the 60s and 70s), and it was probably one of those great old varietals. Apparently they were so sweet they'd make you sick if you tried to eat more than one

@absalomdraconis

2 жыл бұрын

That was just luck on his part- the old orchards (at least in the US) were more often focussed on apples for alcohol than eating, so they didn't worry much about flavor.

@landshark3509

2 жыл бұрын

@@absalomdraconis they definitely made alcohol with those apples too, lol

@annierichardson5296

2 жыл бұрын

That could have been a Pound Sweet - big, juicy, intensely sweet apples. I can’t eat a while one - it’s like trying to eat a lot of maple sugar or fudge.

Well, that was truly fascinating! I learned quite a bit about apple growing here. When I was a kid, my grandfather grew Cox Orange in the backyard. They were smallish and, being truly organic, sometimes wormy, but always juicy and delicious.

@KeithOtisEdwards

2 жыл бұрын

In Downtown Detroit, behind the Parking Authority building, there is an old Macintosh apple tree that’s been there for years. I used to climb on the roof of my car and pick those apples. Of course, since they hadn’t been sprayed, there were insect remains in the core of each one, but I would cut that part out and eat the rest, and it was the best Macintosh apple you ever tasted. Of course, modern Americans want perfect-appearing produce, so if they saw such an apple, they would scream _EEEEK! It has a bug in it!_ and throw it away.

Thank you! I had an apple tree in my backyard when I grew up. I thought the skin was thick and the apples were kind of soft and mealy but they had good flavor. Still, in the eighties, the Red Delicious apples we got from the store were way better - thin skinned and crisp, a lot like Gala was when it came out (although it's going in the same direction), but with better flavor. By the nineties, Red Delicious were twice the size, twice as dark red, plastic one-note mush and I was eating the apples from the tree. I was told I was wrong and my taste buds had just changed. I feel vindicated.

Really fascinating. I always wondered whether the Red Delicious used to taste better or if we just got used to tastier things. Thanks for the vid

@user-vn7ce5ig1z

2 жыл бұрын

I want to say I've had Red Delicious that were okay when I was really young, but I doubt that was the case, I only ever remember them tasting like saw-dust. 🤔

@childesinthev.761

2 жыл бұрын

I remember enjoying some very red, crisp and tasty apples as a kid, now that variety seems entirely missing in stores, or those that look closest to them (albeit not as deep a red) don't taste like much. And I'm probably far from old enough for it to be a case of terminal old age nostalgia.

@frozenjune83

2 жыл бұрын

Red Delicious were undeniably WAY better when I was young. But they definitely had lots of yellow striation. Unlike the color they sell today.

Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger on a spinning wheel needle, Snow White ate the poisoned apple.

@slink-ethefox990

2 жыл бұрын

I was totally thrown off by that part, because I thought the exact same thing: “No! That’s Snow White not Sleeping Beauty!”

@tsunamis82

2 жыл бұрын

Where is the needle on a spinning wheel?

Even 50 years ago I thought Red Delicious was rather flavorless. Also, the best apples are locally grown in New England. Unfortunately there are fewer growers every year.

@em4151

2 жыл бұрын

There’s a great video on KZread regarding those apples. The first McIntosh I ever had was in New England and it was the first time I’d had an apple other than a Red Delicious or Granny Smith. It was amazing.

@Mark-zu6oz

2 жыл бұрын

@@em4151 I'll look out for the video. McIntosh are usually good, but when conditions are right they can be amazing - sweet, tangy, crisp, and very juicy.

What a trip ... that farm is down the street from my house, my dad lived on it in his 20s, I worked summers there in my teens, and still swing by every now and then. So weird to see this lmao, hope you enjoyed Natick!

@BrianOrEric

2 жыл бұрын

Oh shit this is in Natick?! Guess it’s time for a visit to that orchard

@topramen1295

2 жыл бұрын

Same here!

Bananas have a similar fate. The variety we call Cavendish (actually Gran nain) was selected for grocers due to size, color and the fact they're tougher to bruise. Not that the many other, better tasting bananas don't also ship perfectly fine. Gran nain however is also coincidentally more susceptible to disease than many of these "ugly" tastier bananas (TR4, the fungus you hear in the news is just one of many diseases plaguing Gran nain plantations) making monocultures a bad idea in the long run. It pays to be an ugly banana in the long run... I'm growing some of these heriloom banana varieties in zone 6 right now (ofc they're indoors rn), can't wait to see how they taste. It's a pain to grow them so far north but it'll pay off.

I grew up on a farm in the 1960s that had a big apple orchard. The red delicious were the old style and were crispy and very tasty.

Very interesting! I like to use a verity of different apples when I make my apple butter because I find that it gives a better, more enjoyable depth of flavor than just using one verity. It’s neat to learn how the modern apple came to be🍎🍏

The production value is really high, the story is interesting enough to keep me to the end while I didn't plan to watch this video at all. Wish you luck with views!

I was expecting a mention of the Pink Lady apple since it was developed here in Western Australia.

@jazay591

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that apple's top shit.

@JoshGerhards

2 жыл бұрын

Pink ladies are my favorite!

@ninjadogs3389

2 жыл бұрын

Do you guys find them sweet or bitter? I find them sweet but everyone else that tries them seems to find them bitter and sour.

@freedomgeek2

2 жыл бұрын

@@ninjadogs3389 sweet and tart

@Ryogachik

2 жыл бұрын

@@ninjadogs3389 they used to be my favorite because they were sweet. Now I find them bitter and tart :(

Well this is something we've discussed in my family for decades. Mostly about strawberries though. But lately we've been talking about honeycrisp, which to our despair turned to crap in just a few years. Tomatoes is another crop that once they find some new awesome version, they soon start to sell bad knock-offs.

I'm old enough to remember when the Red Delicious apples and Golden Delicious were about the only two apples you could get at the store. The Red's got gross and then, miracle of miracles, the Granny Smith came along. After that it was full on with HoneyCrisps, Gala, Fuji and lots of good options.

All the apple orchards made the same mistakes with the honeycrisp as were done with the red delicious? I guess you could say that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

@absalomdraconis

2 жыл бұрын

Customers (the stores) care about today first and a decade from now almost never, and producers are stuck with the whim of those stores. The amount of production bought from the source is miniscule.

@Dragrath1

2 жыл бұрын

@@absalomdraconis That is why if possible I only buy apples from farmers markets or similar. It is the same situation for real tomatoes and strawberries lots of fruits really

Was looking for some Red Dels in the local supermarket here in AUS a couple of weeks ago and couldn't find any. Now I know why. Cheers.

@user-vn7ce5ig1z

2 жыл бұрын

When James mentioned it, it suddenly occurred to me that I hadn't seen any in my grocery stores for a while either. I guess they're going extinct. 🤦

@chrisd3830

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-vn7ce5ig1z and thank god for that.

@SuperTastyfish

2 жыл бұрын

Pink Lady applies are the go if you're in Australia anyway (and they come from WA)

@mce_AU

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuperTastyfish I had, until recently, a grafted Pink Lady tree. Sadly it is no more. :-(

@MardukGodSlayer

2 жыл бұрын

Which state are you in? I'm in Vic and I still have red delicious at my local supermarkets and fruit shops. Not worth buying at the moment though unless you can miraculously find some fresh ones. My local fruit shop was getting in new season ones briefly a few months ago and they were unbelievably good, but it didn't last long before they went back to being flourey and gross.

This is the first time I’ve seen this channel, but you have such a high quality production and presentation skill to your videos, and that’s really impressive.

20-25 years ago, most of the apples I saw were what I called "Red Yukkies", with their not-so-round bottoms. Recently, I went into a Sheetz convenience store in Virginia USA and saw a display of of Red Yukkies, er, Delicious and realized I hadn't had one in a while. Although it is still not a favorite of mine, it was a nice change of pace. My favorite apple is Granny Smith, which is green. My favorite red ones are Stayman and Winesap, which may be the same under different names.

Well, I guess I'm old. I remember when they had the yellow patches. Yes, they were delicious. Once the yellow patches where gone, OMG, they were awful. ~~~ Funny, I came to develop a revulsion for that deep red color of the corrupted variety, and would actively seek out varieties with a matted, mottled look. ~~~ Yes marketers, we do learn, and that fancy bit of advertising psychology (neuromarketing) that speaks of how red things are so exiting is, in fact, quite subject to conditioning. Oh well, live and learn. (I wonder if anyone will catch that last bit of word play.)

@TesserId

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, and good riddance corrupted red delicious.

@workin4alivin585

2 жыл бұрын

Me, too!

@naomigwolfe8112

2 жыл бұрын

I knew it was the yellow bits were the parts that made it tasty!

As someone who works in a grocery store i often wonder how come people buy the red delicious since it tastes like dirt to me. We get the specialty apples Cosmic, Rave, lucy rose etc. but Fuji/honeycrisp/gala are the most popular. Great video by the youtube algorithm

@fenrirgg

2 жыл бұрын

To me it's the Gala what tastes like dirt. But sometimes the red delicious tastes like dirt too. All the other sweet varieties are too sweet for me and I find them disgusting. And thinking about apples... I would like that a more stale acidic option were available for using in desserts.

@garethevans4073

2 жыл бұрын

@@fenrirgg Do you not have cooking apples? In the UK we have Bramley apples in the supermarkets which are meant for cooking with rather than eating.

@fenrirgg

2 жыл бұрын

@@garethevans4073 no, I live in Mexico, we mostly have sweet apples, almost all imported from USA, there very few local varieties (because our climate is very warm most of the year) and the only apples I have used for cooking are, maybe, golden delicious when hey are not totally ripe.

@lunayen

2 жыл бұрын

@@fenrirgg You're getting your gala from the US, which might explain the bland taste. Also, wouldn't it be better to combine the GD with Granny Smith? Since they are tart?

@fenrirgg

2 жыл бұрын

@@lunayen I've tried the granny Smith but it's too sweet for what I wanted.

This was my favorite video. I loved watching him try to take two bites of apple at once. Thanks for the well thought out video presentation :)

This is the first video I’ve seen of yours and MY GOSH why is it so good? The filming, editing and presentation in just the first scene kinda blew my mind, and then you juggled while talking and I can’t any more it’s too good SUBBED

The effects in the beginning of the video looked really great. I've done similar effects for film festival films and it's so fun to do, even though it's a lot of tedious work. Very very well done, especially for a short youtube video about Apples. I just spent the last 10 minutes discussing how I would compose these effects myself. (I'd probably do it all in blender, honestly)

@AtomicFrontier

2 жыл бұрын

Close! Aftereffects + PowerPoint

Amazing production once again! Juggling while presenting? absolute madlad, even i was confused with so much information at the same time. Really hope this channel and its team get all the recognition they deserve, its refreshing to see culture being transmitted in such a professional and clean way. Sir David would be proud!

This is such professional quality I expected over a million subscribers, keep up the great work I really enjoyed your video, you deserve more subscribers!

My Opa grew the old type of Red Delicious apples, they lacked much of that very distinct bitterness that Red Delicious in the supermarket were known for. IIRC he would have gotten those trees in the very late 60s or in the 70s. They also didn't seem to be particularly dwarf, so they produced a ton of apples. I grow a few varieties myself, but I like most apples.

I'm not very invested with which apple is on top, but I didn't know that red delicious was only toppled this year. I bought a red delicious when I was a kid. It was so red, and so perfect, I knew it had to be perfect. How wrong I was. That was one person, one apple. Who on the good green earth, eats two red delicious apples?

Was anyone else too mesmerized by him juggling and talking to actually pay attention to what he said the first time? What a legend

This is really cool cinematography and editing. Subbed

I was on a very potent medication for a full year several years back, and the only food that I could eat in enough quantity to survive was Honey Crisp apples. Still my favorite to this day.

That's some impressive skill presenting whilst juggling 😂👍🍎

@Faesharlyn

2 жыл бұрын

I read your comment when he was juggling and I realized he wasn't using cue cards or teleprompter app. Very impressive.

This channel deserves more subs

The production quality is amazing!!!

Sweet! I love your integrated video style! True eye candy indeed!

My man ~juggles~ so many topics on this channel incredibly well.

"Apples. As American... as Apple pie." Seeing as neither is American, this definitely checks out.

@BeezyNgeezY-ul1nu

2 жыл бұрын

But the two came together... and seeing how the apple saw its renaissance in Minnesota... it's pretty american now

@DaftPunkSkittle

2 жыл бұрын

thats very debatable, Apple pie outside the US isnt and wasnt like the apple pie that became a staple in the US

@marshallc6215

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaftPunkSkittle importing the idea kf apple pie and modifying it for our tastes doesn't make it American any more than Ryan Reynolds moving to the states makes him American and not Canadian

@DaftPunkSkittle

2 жыл бұрын

@@marshallc6215 lmao WHAT? have you even seen the apple pies recipes of back then? They dont resemble modern american pies at all. Its like saying Ferrari cars arent Italian because of Ford. Things evolve to a point you have to give credit if they make it their own. Calm down

@beardedemperor

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaftPunkSkittle from the tone of your comment, you're the one that needs to calm down. Apple pies aren't American. Pre-US pies have very different recipes from modern US pies. They also have very different recipes from modern non-US pies. Your car analogy is also disingenuous. A more honest version would be claiming "cars are American" because Ford introduced some innovations. And again, that'd be wrong. Though arguable, it is commonly agreed that the first car was German. What you seem to be saying is that Americans mean "as American as American apple pie". Which you can have, but it seems pointlessly tautological. Why not claim an actually novel American invention instead?

This is the first time I've seen your stuff, glorious production quality.

I actually used to really love red delicious, and I'm not that old. My mom always told me they were gross but I ignored her. I just kind of assumed all apples were hit or miss. I would actually occasionally find a good one.

Apple growing culture is massive where I live so it's really nice to hear some farmers are taking steps to actually produce good tasting apples instead of ones that only look nice

You should do one on the Great Brussels Sprouts Cultivar Change, subtitle Or Why Kids Today Don't Mind Brussels Sprouts While We Thought They Were Vile In The 80s. Or one on the lost flavor of banana candy.

@Falcodrin

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of the issue with brussel sprouts is their sulfur content. If you cook them right ie roasting and not boiling them like our parents did the sulfur nastiness is mitigated somewhat. Plus as humans age their ability to detect bitter flavors weakens.

@nevisysbryd7450

2 жыл бұрын

@@Falcodrin There are a plethora of vegetables that I disliked as a child that I have since discovered it had at least as much to do with how my parents cooked it. I *still* find asparagus nauseating when steamed.

@Rocketsong

2 жыл бұрын

@@Falcodrin There has actually been a huge shift in the cultivars of Brussels Spouts in the past decade or so. Newer cultivars have a lot less sulfur in them. This is what Chad is referring to.

As a kid growing up in the 60's, we had lots of local orchards in CA with tiny, bitter little apples, but a few places had some pretty nice (also small) ones for a short time. I remember when the Honeycrisp hit the stands back in the 90's, I was elated. Problem back then was high demand, low supply and (apparent) short season. Great to hear the history!

Aw man, I love apples. They do all taste noticeably different, and some are better than others for different uses. This is the first video I'm seeing of your channel, and I gotta say, it looks good. Will stick around for more.

The name always perplexed me; I never found them delicious. Growing up I preferred a crisp Spartan apple - which I also can’t find sold anywhere around me.

This was fantastic! I switch apple varieties I buy at the grocery store on a weekly basis from Red Delicious to Honeycrisp and Gala or Pink Lady, and I had no idea these fruits were bred from some pretty intense competition. Awesome presentation as always.

I was researching candy apple recipes and KZread insisted I watch this. Very cool info! You got a new follower. The Pink Lady is my favorite apple.

Really interesting. Thank you. I'm in my 60s and the red delicious apples of my childhood were fantastic. You were guaranteed just the right balance of sweetness, juiciness and crunch. Now they're just evil. Dry, flavourless and floury. Over the years l've continued to buy them every once and a while thinking l had just got a dud. Nice to know l can stop bothering and just buy a different cultivar. Wonder what happened to golden delicious they were great in an entirely different way.

Yeah, when I was a kid, I thought red apples kind of tasted like eating a raw mushy potato, and ai couldn’t figure out why people were buying and eating this tripe.

I see, one taking 15 min videos while walking isn't impressive enough anymore, so juggling it is now :D

I have known about the splicing of apple trees for a couple of years now, but the story of how the Red Delicious became the worst apple in the store was one I did not know. Thank you for the tale, and the information!

I was an agricultural engineer working in postharvest horticulture. One concept that I developed back in the mid-1980s was an adaptive controlled atmosphere storage system for apples. Traditionally, the optimum storage atmosphere was determined experimentally by comparing different temperatures, oxygen and carbon dioxide levels to find an optimum for each variety. This takes years and does not pick up seasonal variations. The adaptive control system measures the health of the fruit by its respiration rate or similar and attempts to minimise it to get a longer storage life. This has become a major technical innovation giving longer storage life and reducing the need for some postharvest chemicals.

@AtomicFrontier

2 жыл бұрын

Wow! That was the original topic of the episode but I couldn't get a demo working. If you send me an email (atomicfrontieronline@gmail.com) I'd love to hear more about your work.

I honestly thought you were making a joke with Stark delicious, didn't know that was actually true! Amazing juggling skills as well! Also I will say nothing beats a good pink lady apple, easily the best apple you can eat. At one point we accidentally planted an apple tree at home as well but those don't taste any good in comparison.

@ciarfah

2 жыл бұрын

Pink Lady (cripps pink) is one of the nicest apples you can get in the supermarket, unless your supermarket stocks seasonal apples in Autumn

@electroflame6188

2 жыл бұрын

Strange way of spelling granny smith

You might also want to look into story of banana. Nowadays, you can notice that most of banana-flavored sweets don't taste like actual banana. That's because the most popular banana type in mid 20th century gone almost extinct due to disease and it was replaced with banana with less intense flavor

Thank you for this fascinating history! My favorite cultivar is the Ginger Gold 🥰

The apple is my favorite fruit. I had no idea that's what happened to the honey crisp but explains a lot. 10 years ago I had a honeycrisp that when I ate it I thought. "This is the best apple I will ever eat". They were like 2.59$ a pound then and massive. Now they are 20-30% smaller, 1.89-2$ a lb and don't taste any better than a Fuji. Cosmic Crisps and Sweetango have been my favorites for a year or two now. This explains literally all of it. You rock man.

I love the small heirloom varities of apple, one that's really good is mountain rose, super sweet and juicy with the right amount of crunch and the flesh is pink! I always think grocery store apple are too damn big, the little heirloom varities are perfect snack size