From Johnny Appleseed to Cosmic Crisp, Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Apples in America Right Now

Food and Wine ^ | October 10, 2023 | Betsy Andrews

[EvilCapitalist]

My Grandmother used to bake a fantastic apple pie.

[Flaming Conservative]

Cosmic Crisp are my new favorite apple; very juicy, very crunchy very sweet, with just enough tartness to keep them from being sweet only.

[who knows what evil?]

SweeTango apples are in the stores right now, but they won’t be around long...yummy.

[drSteve78]

“I bake because punching people is frowned upon.”

My personal best favorite scratch pie to bake is a Bourbon Honeycrisp. If you’re lucky, i’ll bake one. My brother in South Carolina visits Colorado knowing i’ll make one.

Excellent article post. I read every word.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Up in the mountains near Scottsboro, Alabama lies Crow Mountain Orchard (the actual address is Fackler, Alabama). The best apples I ever had are grown there. It’s in the mountains so the fruit sees some cold before it’s picked, unlike most Alabama apples. I don’t live in north Alabama anymore so I don’t get them now. No fancy varieties, just good apples - their Fujis are my favorite, and their cider is the best.

[Reeses]

Paid advertising works. The article is heavily over-written by big city media. Per wiki about Cosmic Crisp:

A $10 million consumer launch of the product was funded by Washington-State agriculture promotion funds through the Washington Apple Commission and other agencies. The two taglines for the apple were "Imagine the Possibilities" and "The Apple of Big Dreams". It is said to be the largest campaign in apple industry history and included payments to social media influencers and a partnership with a touring children's production of Johnny Appleseed. The term "Cosmic Crisp" is trademarked.

The paid brainwashing engineer, former New York Times dining critic "Betsy Andrews", is a bit heavy on the Y chromosome:

[piasa]

Just had a great batch of Snapdragons, and before that some good Snowsweets.
Normally I love Braeburns but they are hard to get.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Braeburns have a nasty tendency to go brown on you if stored for long term which most store fruit has been.

Since our apples go from the tree to the basket to your car we do not have that problem.

[Flaming Conservative]

That’s a man!

[KC_for_Freedom]

I second this obversation.

As a child I grew up loving the Winsap. Can’t find it in CA anymore but Cosmic Crisp is a good choice for me.

KC

[31R1O]

Opals and honeycrisps are our current favorites.

[martin_fierro]

FUJI MASTER RACE

[cherry]

my mom picked apples and we kids picked apples in upstate NY....

Cortlands and McCauns were the best....

there were no green variety apples back then...McIntosh, Pipins, yellow delicious and red delicious(yuck).

people really don't know cider...we made cider from the drops on the orchard floor.....take them to the cider press, and the apples were gently washed with water spray only then pressed....no pasteurization or any such thing....if there were germs , we drank it down....best drink in the world....

[cherry]

oh, and Northern Spy apples...huge apples that were used to make pies....Northern Spy apply pie.

[Bookshelf]

Loved the winesap and the gravenstein, but can’t find them anymore.

[norwaypinesavage]

Cosmic Crisp is the best tasting apple I have ever eaten. I have NEVER seen an ad or writeup about it before this one. I first chose it because it was the least sweet red apple in the available apples at a Sam’s Club store. Their apple bags have a ‘sweetness’ chart. It’s crispy and tart, what I like best. I have to drive an extra 50 mile round trip some times to get it, but I gladly make the drive, just for the taste. I eat an apple a day.

[Reeses]

Cosmic Crisp is the best tasting apple I have ever eaten. I have NEVER seen an ad or writeup about it before this one.

Agreed. A good apple can sell itself by taste alone. SweeTango apples are great, but Cosmic Crisp and SweeTango are rare outside the Divided States. Where I currently live, most of the apples come from China, gigantic unnatural monstrosities with unknown cancer causing properties.

[RinaseaofDs]

Fuji is my favorite. Golden Delicious after that. Cosmic Crisp has a very strange texture that I find offputting.

[central_va]

Now , if they could only solve the rock hard factory peach problem....