Re: Apples
Originally Posted by
Percy Vere
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I haven't eaten a Golden Delicious for decades - not since I learnt that the French apple growers more or less forced the EU to standardise on the GD causing all apple growers to grub up most of their better tasting and quality apple trees. Once everyone had done that to compete, the French growers started to grow other varieties and cashed in. Barstewards.
Golden Delicious, ugh. They are neither golden nor delicious. They're the most tasteless excuse for an apple I have ever had the misfortune to eat. I wouldn't eat them if they were the only apples left on the planet.
And yes, I remember all that debacle about the EU standardisation, could never understand why anyone would want to bastardise an apple just to suit a 'standard'.