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NRaleighLiberal

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10. A bigger problem is with the varieties most easily found....

Fri Nov 15, 2013, 05:47 PM

Nov 2013

Many of those that are bred for appearance and keeping are not the highest quality for eating...

My love of heirloom tomatoes is only slightly greater than that for heirloom apples - they are hard to find, often ugly, don't keep well...but the flavors!

We have lots of apples at our local Farmers Market right now - I always seek the ones with brown, rough Russet skin (Roxbury Russet, Golden Russet), or the big green to pale yellow Mutsu....yum! The odd shaped York (kind of slanted and out of round) are delicious too.

Jefferson and Washington were really lucky to have great varieties like Esopus Spitzenberg and Newtown Pippin most common! I've only had them a few times - from Treemendus Apples in Michigan (hundreds of varieties, and they ship!)

Red Delicious....Golden Delicious....Granny Smith? for the most part, Yuck!

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Apparently We've Been Eating Apples Wrong Our Whole Lives (wasting 30%) - eat them this way [View all] Liberal_in_LA Nov 2013 OP

i dont' think so. glad im an american and I can't eat the way I want too. n/t. okieinpain Nov 2013 #1

I'm pretty sure that one may eat an apple how they wish regardless of what country they live in. LanternWaste Nov 2013 #27

Socialism requires very strict laws on how you eat your apples IronLionZion Nov 2013 #40

lol. okieinpain Nov 2013 #63

Or even spell the way they want too. Lex Nov 2013 #49

lol, shut up and leave my spelling alone. okieinpain Nov 2013 #62

For Those Of Us Who No Longer Have Strong Jaws... grilled onions Nov 2013 #2

Yes! You can still eat the skin and only cut out the seeds and Pretzel_Warrior Nov 2013 #6

Most people apparently didn't have my parents... HereSince1628 Nov 2013 #15

I have a food addiction so I high five myself if I leave food on my plate. liberal_at_heart Nov 2013 #17

"People are starving in China" Can't tell you how many times we heard that. notadmblnd Nov 2013 #19

It was the cooked carrots for me. LWolf Nov 2013 #39

?? How do you eat the cob? nt tblue37 Nov 2013 #41

Slowly, very slowly HereSince1628 Nov 2013 #48

etiquette says you leave some food so show that you are full and enjoyed the meal loli phabay Nov 2013 #64

yaaiknow, but the host was threatening punishment if you did HereSince1628 Nov 2013 #65

sorry did not mean to sound crass either, accept apoligies if i did loli phabay Nov 2013 #66

I never thought of it that way. In high school I ate dinner with mf GF and her family, cleaned my Erose999 Nov 2013 #67

Yes. I think that's part of the social interaction... HereSince1628 Nov 2013 #68

Man, I hear ya! countryjake Nov 2013 #72

Slap some peanut butter on there too Cali_Democrat Nov 2013 #23

Nothing like hydrogen cyanide from the seeds. hobbit709 Nov 2013 #3

Snopes: RedCappedBandit Nov 2013 #31

Sure, wen you eat thousands of apple seeds at once. cleanhippie Nov 2013 #51

won't take that many if you crack them with your teeth first. hobbit709 Nov 2013 #55

False. Uncracked you could eat an endless number of apple seeds. Gravitycollapse Nov 2013 #71

I used to eat everything except the stalk and the seeds when I was a kid (nt) Nye Bevan Nov 2013 #4

I still do - even the stalk! sammytko Nov 2013 #9

My husband eats the core. Blue_In_AK Nov 2013 #5

Give the core to your dog. Laffy Kat Nov 2013 #54

My lab waits for his cores, butt wagging! nt msanthrope Nov 2013 #57

My dogs love them, too. They stare at me and salivate until I'm finished. Laffy Kat Nov 2013 #58

Core an apple, or drill holes in a big carrot. Stuff with peanut butter. Throw outside msanthrope Nov 2013 #59

Really? Blue_In_AK Nov 2013 #60

My god, can't we do anything right? B2G Nov 2013 #7

Well then I guess I'm going to continue to waste part of my apple. liberal_at_heart Nov 2013 #8

A bigger problem is with the varieties most easily found.... NRaleighLiberal Nov 2013 #10

Red and Yellow Delicious Apples are not delicious; they're barely apples REP Nov 2013 #24

I think winesaps taste pretty god. nt tblue37 Nov 2013 #42

they are an older variety - really like them for fresh eating - really intense! NRaleighLiberal Nov 2013 #45

A couple of years ago a variety I had not seen before--honey crisps, I think they tblue37 Nov 2013 #46

another really good (fairly recent) one with a bit of a mysterious background...and yes, more costly NRaleighLiberal Nov 2013 #47

yep Kali Nov 2013 #53

If I ate the whole thing, there'd be nothing left for Romeo Sheepshank Nov 2013 #11

My chickens get the cores REP Nov 2013 #25

I core mine, and then discard the icky seeds and stem! CaliforniaPeggy Nov 2013 #12

if you're going to eat the whole thing, how does the orientation matter? unblock Nov 2013 #13

You are using logic. That isn't fair. N/T GreenStormCloud Nov 2013 #37

That's how I eat them. :) idwiyo Nov 2013 #14

That's hard core. nt Xipe Totec Nov 2013 #16

Seems like a good way to get sick. Xithras Nov 2013 #18

Yep TroglodyteScholar Nov 2013 #50

Red peels give me a terrible stomach ache but yellow peels do not. Laffy Kat Nov 2013 #56

You're supposed to eat the stem? Fawke Em Nov 2013 #20

That's how I do it, too. GoCubsGo Nov 2013 #26

you wasteful eco destroyer Liberal_in_LA Nov 2013 #30

omg That is how my kid eats them. annabanana Nov 2013 #21

I will not eat the core or seeds, but... TreasonousBastard Nov 2013 #22

When I'm done with an apple, all that's left is the tough pith in the middle, Warpy Nov 2013 #28

I eat my apples in pie. (nt) Inkfreak Nov 2013 #29

funny, I completely forgot that such people exist reorg Nov 2013 #32

I eat what I want to. If there's anything left, it goes to the Dog or Bunnies or Rat or Chinchilla. BlueJazz Nov 2013 #33

My dad, who grew up without indoor plumbing or electricity, taught me the civilized way to eat kestrel91316 Nov 2013 #34

I'm not sure what one apple's seeds Shankapotomus Nov 2013 #35

Know someone who eats it all including the stem. But then, she eats sleepies, too. freshwest Nov 2013 #36

I cut them into fourths. cut away the seeds & eat everything but the seeds.. no waste SoCalDem Nov 2013 #38

I eat apple sauce. Rarely do I eat the piece of fruit. LuvNewcastle Nov 2013 #43

I have always eaten the entire apple, including the stem. n/t cherokeeprogressive Nov 2013 #44

I grew up in the Hood River valley in Oregon. All orcharding. I don't know anyone who eats the OregonBlue Nov 2013 #52

Just because some idiot does it on the internet, that doesn't make it "right." MADem Nov 2013 #61

I quarter them and cut out the part surrounding the seeds. I also cut out the stem, and the thing on Erose999 Nov 2013 #69

Thanks to this nonsense I have a small apple tree growing in my stomach. Warren Stupidity Nov 2013 #70