Honeycrisps are back!

[natto fire]

I'm beginning to think that why the people that think they're "the best tasting apple" like them...

Exactly. The same reason that Bud Light is the best selling beer, when it actually tastes nothing like beer.

 

[SunnyD]

:hmm: ya think?

Point taken. slag's opinion is therefore invalid.

 

[Fritzo]

Exactly. The same reason that Bud Light is the best selling beer, when it actually tastes nothing like beer.

I'm an apple lover and I love honeycrisp. They taste exactly like old fashioned apple cider, but in fruit form.

 

[torpid]

I also dislike almost every other variety of apple. There are thousands of varieties and most of them are not very good eating apples in my opinion. I like maybe 10 or so varieties that I've tried, including honeycrisp. Honeycrisp is not my favorite, but I enjoy them when they are in season. I like the fact that honeycrisps are firm without being chewy, sweet, and long-lasting. There are a bunch of apple varieties that are outrageously delicious and perfectly textured for about 1-2 days and then outside that window they are garbage, and therefore I don't care for them since I don't want to have to worry about keeping apples for a week or two.

The best apple varieties I've had are obscure hybrids from a local farm. One had a pinkish flesh and tasted like a more delicious pink lady. A high compliment from me since Pink Lady is my favorite variety that is available most of the year in grocery stores.

 

[slag]

Point taken. slag's opinion is therefore invalid.

Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say its invalid, but I do believe you two are on to something. Its still an apple, and has an amazing sweet and juicy firm bite, but no tartness. Its like the most pure sugary form of apple juice thats still in an apple.

 

[natto fire]

I'm an apple lover and I love honeycrisp. They taste exactly like old fashioned apple cider, but in fruit form.

Yeah, I am thinking now that my analogy was not good for a number of reasons, but particularly people expect different tastes out of apples apparently. I do know for a fact that it is harder to eat "supermarket" apples after one that was grown with no pesticides or fertilizers.

I am more of a fan of complex flavors and textures and found honeycrisps paling in that area compared to some granny smiths. The biggest problem with the "fresh" food industry as it stands is inconsistency.

 

[SandEagle]

$3.99 / lb.? no thanks. never tried them and at that price never will

 

[slag]

Picked up some at hyvee last weekend. They just started arriving at our local grocery store. $3.99 a lb, i bought a 4.2 lb bag and they are almost gone. #honeycrisp

 

[Fritzo]

 

[Scarpozzi]

Honeycrisps rock. They aren't as good as winesaps, but they still beat granny smith. Granny smiths get hard towards the center.

Yeah.....winesaps are the best, most flavorful apples in the kingdom.

I was only introduced to honeycrisps last year or so...was impressed.

I also like Braeburns and Cameos.

 

[zinfamous]

The Honeycrisp thread is back, along with the hype from the generally anti-apple crowd.

 

[Blackjack200]

Apple sucks. Android is better.

 

[Anubis]

im going picking this weekend

Mac
Empire
Cortland
and if im lucky Northern Spy - however im not sure if they are this year or next.

 

[QueBert]

Thread pops up every year, and every year people get it fucked up.

Grapple > *

This is why they easily sell, even when they cost 4-8 times the price of any other apples outside of a honeycrisp. They were THREE dollars an apple last time I picked one up. Even expensive Honeycrisps are cheap compared to them. I could have gotten about 4 lbs of granny smiths for the price of 1 Grapple.

 

[Anubis]

sorry im not black enough to want a grape flavored apple

fuck i dont even want grape flavored grapes

 

[zinfamous]

Thread pops up every year, and every year people get it fucked up.

Grapple > *

you know you're not serious, right? that isn't even fruit.

 

[Anubis]

you know you're not serious, right? that isn't even fruit.

no it really exists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grāpple

 

[QueBert]

you know you're not serious, right? that isn't even fruit.

It's a real Apple, soaked in real grape juice. Grapes are good, Apples are good. Combined they are even better. They're real, and they're real expensive. The local fruit stand charges $8 for a 4 pack. The thing that gives them away as being fruit is I buy them at a fruit stand that doesn't sell anything but fruit

 

[DaveSimmons]

Honeycrisps are better than a mealy and bland Red Delicious but not what I'd pick.

Jazz and SweeTango are crisp, sweet and a little tart. When I can't get them I might settle for a Fuji or Braeburn.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

fuji apples ftw.

Yup

 

[zinfamous]

no it really exists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C4%81pple

Oh, I know what a grapple is

It's a real Apple, soaked in real grape juice. Grapes are good, Apples are good. Combined they are even better. They're real, and they're real expensive. The local fruit stand charges $8 for a 4 pack. The thing that gives them away as being fruit is I buy them at a fruit stand that doesn't sell anything but fruit

being infused with purple sugar drank is a good thing?

no thanks.

stick to real fruit, with real sugar.

If you want a real hybrid of real fruits that is actually a real fruit and actually tastes good, then go for a pluot.

 

[QueBert]

Oh, I know what a grapple is



being infused with purple sugar drank is a good thing?

no thanks.

stick to real fruit, with real sugar.

If you want a real hybrid of real fruits that is actually a real fruit and actually tastes good, then go for a pluot.

It's not infused with purple drank, it's soaked in 100% Concord grape juice and injected with some water that's mixed with more concord grape juice. A Grapple has the same amount of sugar as a normal apple. It's not an apple fused with Kool-Aid regardless of what you think. The grape part doesn't resemble purple drank, it tastes like grape juice.

 

[Anubis]

concord grape just might as well be urine, its fucking crap

 

[lxskllr]

It's not infused with purple drank, it's soaked in 100% Concord grape juice and injected with some water that's mixed with more concord grape juice. A Grapple has the same amount of sugar as a normal apple. It's not an apple fused with Kool-Aid regardless of what you think. The grape part doesn't resemble purple drank, it tastes like grape juice.

We've been through this before. It's artificially flavored. Grapples are for children who are raised poorly.

 

[KidNiki1]

ok, i just this second finished eating my first ever honeycrisp which i bought because of this thread... it was very good!! i will now have to try some of the others mentioned here as well.

thanks honeycrispers!