All our common produce sucks. Apples, pears, peaches. Everything is picked hard and never ripens or gains flavor.
One trip to Europe and their fresh fruit makes you realize how the robber barons here have screwed us over completely and sold us out for maximum profit. Our produce is often tasteless.
I have, in my front yard, 3 apple types (transparent and 2 Spartan varieties), 4 pear varieties, 4 cherry varieties, and a fig.
The backyard has only an Italian prune plum.
I plan on fixing that soon...