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![[0940] Red Delicious](/comics/2017-11-23-0940-red-delicious.png "[0940] Red Delicious")
Loosely based on a very funny Reddit comment I read.
- Sign: Red Delicious
- Larisa: Red Delicious?! Those still get sold… and bought?!
- Larisa: You may be red, but you sure as hell ain’t “delicious,” you bland and mealy excuse for an apple!
- Sandra: Calm down, Larisa, people are staring.
- Larisa: Calm down?!
- Larisa: How can you calm down at the sight of a country fraught with bad apples and people who just don’t care?!
- Sandra: Interesting choice of words.
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Honeycrisp is where its at, honestly.
*clears throat uncomfortably*
“Reliance on the Red Delicious apple variety despite its dwindling popularity eventually caused a 700 million dollar collapse in Washington States apple industry in the late 90s.”
Bad apples.
@ MidoriLuna:
Honeycrisp is awesome, but Fuji is good too.
Granny Smith all the way! Good apple must be sour!
Northern spies. Tart and flavorful, good for eating, and cooking, and makes the world’s best cider. Unfortunately, only available in northwest PA and west NY.
@ alanaktion:
Both good for eating, but neither cooks well.
@ Lookfar:
Honeycrisp cooks ok; I mean they’re not Granny Smiths but they don’t turn into applesauce either.
Trimutius wrote:
Yepp, Granny smith.
@ Lookfar:
Northern Spy’s arn’t too bad for cider applies, but Heritage Kerr (crab apple) are far superior. To make a great cider you need apples high in Tannin, Spy’s arn’t quite there.
I’m currently pressing about 10 different varieties of apples to combine into a few cider blends for experimentation purposes 🙂
Agricultural or political?
@ MidoriLuna:
Heh, memories… I grew up in the heart of Washington’s apple country. We grew (and still grow, really) a lot of fruit around there other than apples: pears, peaches, apricots, cherries… the area also invented several of the apple varieties more popular these days. Anyway, I could not understand the complaints about red delicious apples except that I moved out of the area, and tried to buy them at a supermarket. There is something very wrong with supermarket apples. Tomatoes too, for that matter. Frsh red delicious live up to their name.
Also, your quote is kind of amusing in that it’s phrasing unintentionally trivializes planting a new orchard. Apple trees take time to grow. It’s not like they’ll start producing fruit within a year or five.
I agree with Sandra. Very interesting.
You are talking about Spain, aren’t you? xD
This is probably relatable to people who live in non-tropical climates.
Bang, Novil. Feckin’ BANG.
Chalk another one up for Granny Smith BTW.
Red Delicious aren’t bad, if you can pick them yourself, instead of getting them in a regular grocery store. The secret to their being lousy is in the handling.
But my go to apple when I can get it is Arkansas Black.
Agree it’s the supermarket (or the whole supply chain) who don’t care.
Red Delicious certainly are when fresh picked or stored correctly but not for too long. Best with a chunk of tart cheddar cheese (good luck finding that in the USA) – Please note “cheese” not “Plastic”
Pacific Rose & Jazz are far and away better keepers but never as good as a perfect Red Delicious.
The majority of the comments section is talking about the quality of apples. You may want to check the last panel one more time.
How to you like dem apples.
Fortunately the Boy Toy thread was cut off.
@ MidoriLuna:
Honeycrisp, Fuji, Opal… these are the best I’ve had.
A country full of bad people and people who dont care about these bad people. Interesting choice of words
Golden delicious and granny smith are my favourites.
Hard part is finding a granny smith that is actually ripe.
I have a great market near where I work that sells a huge variety of fresh apples, and have enjoyed trying them all.
Red delicious are probably my favourite (non-baking) apple. I think it’s all down to what flavours you prefer in fruit, and I can definitely understand the hate red delicious get from people looking for heartier or sweeter apples.
yes…. how politically relevant…. i must agree it is bullcrap.
i would be a bit more profane about it if i wasn’t sure if the comment posting rule on swearing applies to overall situations like politics or the media.
That’s the thing about bad apples. They make great compost.
You read “politics” in the tags, right?
What politcal party has the color red?
“A country with bad apples and people who don’t care.”
Yes german political satire is hard to understand for amis. 😉
But Novil is making fun about your republicans.
I was thinking of hunders of repuplican snowflakes that allready
wrote bad things about this german writer Novil here.
But they havn’t understand satire; too bad. 😀
@ Trimutius:
Agrred!
I’m having very strong deja vu reading this one… Have they run this joke, or another like it, before? Larisa berating red delicious apples seems oddly familiar.
Years ago you could buy Jonathon apples at a store near me. When they were in season I’d eat a ten pound bag every week all by myself. And they made the most amazing applesauce pies! Now, like the American political scene, the store has gone and the produce degenerated. I must be getting old . . .
My favourite is Braeburn. I love to cut them into vegetable salads.
@ TachyonCode:
Opals are great too, but I’ve rarely seen them in stores here. I’ve only been able to get them through a restaurant supplier.
There is a certain irony in the collapse of the red delicious apple, in that as a result, the government subsidized hundreds of millions of dollars into breeding new varieties of apples, resulting in the more popular choices we have today.
Yeah, and the US is run by the worst apple of them all.
…
Wait, that’s an insult to apples everywhere.
Arkansas Black apples are where it’s at. They’re an heirloom apple too, so you can plant a tree and harvest your own apples in twenty years.
Hey, what’s wrong with you?
Sometime earlier XKCD, now you.
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/apple_spectrum.png
These are my 2nd favourite – not hard, not soft, extremely juicy and sweet.
1st place – Fuji, btw. Almost same thing, but HUGE.
In my opinion, these two – the best kinds of apples you can find in Russian shops.
What do we learn today?
– Apple varieties vary in taste.
– Taste varies, too.
– Political satire is hard to get and even harder to do well, so why not leaving it to those who can do it better, Oliver? 😉 (And no, I’m not a Republican. Surely not!)
*yawn*
Waiting patiently for the next funny strip.
I’ll never understand why the strident Red Delicious critics seem not to get the basic idea that different people have different tastes. There are a whole bunch of expressions that say this. Why is it so hard for some people to realize that it applies to apples too? Red Delicious have always been one of my favorites.
Pink Ladies all the way
I see some good apples popping up in the comments, but let me tell you, Elstar has got you all beat. It’s the best apple by far, though probably only regionally available.
Hm, I’m not sure I catch the joke. It was an allusion to iPads or MacBooks?
Still better than the alternative, as far as I can tell over from Hungary.
On the other hand, what actual business do I or a german has in american politics?
And apple grown home is surely the best, be it of whatever taste.
The only “great” apple is the gravenstein. Good for eating off the tree, the ground, in pie or in cider.
Granny Smith’s for the win!
My favorite is the Mutsu/Crispin, but they are SO HARD to find… Otherwise, Fuji, Granny Smith, or an Asian Pear will do.
Pff. Granny smiths, sour? You americans, you know nothing.
*bites into a bramley and smiles as his tastebuds scream for mercy*
I get the political angle, but I’d rather talk about apples than politics, so…
Personally, I like Galas and Granny Smiths.
Mhm, I actually like Golden Delicious and Fuji apples. And a bunch of other I don’t know the name of. I like them as long as they are sweet-ish, I absolutely don’t like sour apples.
But more on the topic- I know there is a reference in there, I just don’t get whom they are referring to. Anyone willing to explain it to me, or give me a hint? (I’m European and know of the politics in German speaking countries, but I usually don’t divulge too much into the politics of Germany)
I’m with Larisa on this one, though it’s more how weird the skin tastes to me than how bland the rest of the fruit is.
Now if only there were an apple that had the crunch of a Granny Smith and the flavor of a golden delicious, that would be absolutely perfect. ^.^
@ poko:
Yeah, yeah, we get it. It’s our Thanksgiving holiday today; maybe give us a little credit for trying to avoid the unpleasant politics and talk about tasty apples instead.
Yup, Thanksgiving. In a little bit, after breakfast, I’m going to be baking an apple pie. Granny Smiths and a couple of Asian pears. But first the scratch coffee cake has to come out.
On Thanksgiving I’m a baking fiend, and I’ve got a lot to finish before the turkey monopolizes the oven for about 6 hours!