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01-03-2021, 06:06 PM
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Re: Apples

Cox’s Orange Pippins has always been my favourite from childhood. Mr Mags prefers Royal Gala so I always buy two types of apples a week.
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01-03-2021, 06:25 PM
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Re: Apples

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Granny Smiths for me
Thanks but Granny Smiths are hard and tart Paula I’m looking for medium soft and sweet .
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01-03-2021, 06:28 PM
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Re: Apples

Originally Posted by Mags ->
Cox’s Orange Pippins has always been my favourite from childhood. Mr Mags prefers Royal Gala so I always buy two types of apples a week.
Are they in season now Mags ? I do believe they might be what I’m looking for .
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01-03-2021, 06:46 PM
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Re: Apples

Originally Posted by Mags ->
Cox’s Orange Pippins has always been my favourite from childhood. Mr Mags prefers Royal Gala so I always buy two types of apples a week.
Cox Orange Pippin for me as well but sometimes difficult to get here.
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01-03-2021, 08:22 PM
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Re: Apples

Originally Posted by Zuleika ->
Are they in season now Mags ? I do believe they might be what I’m looking for .
They are coming to the end of their short season Zuleika,
They are usually in the shops here in the south west from September until early Spring. At the moment, I'm still able to buy them from Sainsbury's.
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02-03-2021, 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Percy Vere ->
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'.
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02-03-2021, 12:24 PM
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Re: Apples

Originally Posted by Mags ->
They are coming to the end of their short season Zuleika,
They are usually in the shops here in the south west from September until early Spring. At the moment, I'm still able to buy them from Sainsbury's.
Thanks Mags ,I just added them to my online Sainsburys shop for this week ,they’re showing as available .🙂
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02-03-2021, 02:35 PM
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Thanks Mags ,I just added them to my online Sainsburys shop for this week ,they’re showing as available .🙂
I always leave them for a couple of days after I buy them, they are not quite so crisp then, so easier to eat.
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Re: Apples

Originally Posted by Bathsheba ->
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'.
That, in a nutshell, is the EU for you. I agree with your description of the Golden Delicious.
 
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