My Ma always bought red or yellow delicious, or Cortland, and we had some unknown really sour ones from our own tree, which were good for pies and sauce, with about equal amounts of sugar. But there was a tree on a neighboring farm that my Dad rented with just a basement left of any homestead, and those apples were amazing in the rare years there were any that matured to ripening. Late in adulthood I tried a Gala, and there it was! just like that old strange one. My favorite ever since.
Gala’s are good. Ambrosia’s are too.