Why are red delicious apples so bad and terrible?

0:00 Today's Keyword Red Delicious Apple
0:55 What are Red Delicious apples?
2:08 Why does Red delicious apple tastes so bad and are we still producing it?
7:04 Where are Red Delicious Apple Grown
7:40 Why are Red Delicious Apples so cheap?

References:

Red Delicious-Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Delicious

The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-evil-reign-of-the-red-delicious/379892/

The Red Delicious is an apple atrocity. Why are we growing billions of pounds of them each year?
https://thecounter.org/history-economics-red-delicious-apples/

Red Delicious Apples Weren’t Always Horrible

https://newengland.com/today/food/red-delicious-apple/

This Is Why Red Delicious Apples Suck So Hard
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/red-delicious-apples-suck_n_5b630199e4b0b15abaa061af

All About Red Delicious Apples
https://minnetonkaorchards.com/red-delicious-apples/

CC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8QJGsX5bXg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrpusUuFNpY

Golden Delicious apples.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Delicious#/media/File:Golden_Delicious_apples.jpg

Malus-Gala

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gala_(apple)#/media/File:Malus-Gala.jpg

Rosaceae_Malu spumila Malus pumila Var domestica Apples Fuji

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuji_(apple)#/media/File:Rosaceae_Malus_pumila_Malus_pumila_Var_domestica_Apples_Fuji.jpg

THE GREAT RED DELICIOUS BAILOUT OF 2000
https://nowiknow.com/the-great-red-delicious-bailout-of-2000/

I remember the first time I went to a supermarket 
in the United States I was so overwhelmed by all

kinds of apple varieties. Having no idea which 
one to choose, I decided to go for the one that

looks good AKA Red Delicious. And soon I realize, 
it was everything but delicious, it was an apple

abomination! So why are we still producing it and 
blatantly lying saying it’s delicious? And really,

What the heck are Red Delicious apples? Well, let’s 
find out with PAA.

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Today's keyword is Red Delicious apple. We will

talk about what it is, some history about it, 
and why Corporate America got the nerve to call

it delicious. So let’s start with our first 
PAA: What are Red Delicious apples? The answer

to this question is extracted from Wikipedia’s 
Red Delicious apple entry. According to this entry,

Red Delicious is a type of apple with a red 
exterior and sweet taste that was first recognized

in Madison County, Iowa, in 1872. Today, the name 
Red Delicious comprises more than 50 cultivars.

From 1968 to 2018, it was the most produced 
variety in the United States. Gala became the

most produced after that. So it’s actually not one 
cultivar but a variety. For those who don’t know,

a cultivar is a plant that is produced and 
maintained by horticulturists but does not

produce true-to-seed; whereas, a variety 
is a group of plants within a species that

has one or more distinguishing characteristics. 
True-to-seed means plants whose seed will yield

the same type of plant as the original 
plant. So as it turns out, the term Red

Delicious sometimes is referring to an apple 
variety comprised of more than 50 cultivars,

not a single cultivar. No wonder its taste seems 
to be very inconsistent. And what the heck,

how can it get away with being the most-produced 
apple up until 2018? So Why do red delicious

apples taste bad? And regardless of the fact 
that it tastes terrible, Why do we still produce

so many Red Delicious Apples? To answer these two 
questions, we will have to learn some history of

Red Delicious. And four articles could give us 
a very good overview. The first article titled

“The Red Delicious is an apple atrocity. Why are 
we growing billions of pounds of them each year?”

was published by The Counter. The Counter is, 
according to their about page, an independent,

nonpartisan newsroom investigating the forces 
shaping how and what Americans eat. The second

article titled “This Is Why Red Delicious Apples 
Suck So Hard” was published by huffpost.com, and

the third article titled “The Awful Reign of the 
Red Delicious” was published by The Atlantic. And

finally, an article titled “Red Delicious Apples 
Weren’t Always Horrible” published by New England

Today, which according to their about page is a “ 
multi-portal website designed to be the ultimate

online resource for the New England region 
offering original expert content on New England

travel, lifestyle, food, the best events and so 
much more. “ According to these articles, In the

late 1880s, Iowa farmer Jesse Hiatt visited his 
orchard and found a mysterious apple seedling. He

dug it up, but it kept coming up, and he decided 
that perhaps it deserved to live because of its

tenacity. Hiatt eventually gave up and dubbed the 
apple “Hawkeye”. Hiatt then submit Hawkeye Apple

in a competition held in 1893 by Stark Brothers' 
Nursery of Louisiana, Missouri, which is a

competition aimed to find a successor for the Ben 
Davis, which was then the most frequently planted

apple in America which was sturdy and beautiful 
but bland.(hum…Sounds like red delicious itself,

but anyway) After one bite of Hawkeye Apple, 
the president of Stark Brothers Clarence said,

“My! This apple is delicious!” He paused, 
then declared, “That will be its name!” Stark

Brothers soon purchased the rights from Hiatt 
and named the apple the “Stark Delicious.”

In 1914, to differentiate it from their new apple 
variety Golden Delicious, it was renamed: Red

Delicious. Ok, so what’s wrong with Clarence? How 
could he call that abomination delicious? Did he

just blatantly lie or there was some problem with 
his tastebuds? Not necessarily! As it turns out,

the Red Delicious apples you can find in the 
supermarkets might be a totally different thing

than the Red Delicious Apple Clarence bit into 
in 1893. According to an apple grower Mike Beck

at Uncle John’s Cider Mill: “The original Red 
Delicious was pretty awesome in the sense that

it was a highly edible apple that appealed to 
many,” Beck says. “But it wasn’t red. It was red

and yellow-striped. The original Hawkeye had maybe 
a little bit of pineapple or melon flavors. It was

fruity and sweet, but it didn’t look awesome.” 
However, in 1923, a New Jersey grower discovered

that one branch of his Red Delicious apple 
tree had not only ripened before the others,

but had also turned a deep crimson red. Soon, 
the whole industry of Red Delicious growers was

on the lookout for their own mutation that would 
produce prettier and redder apples. By the 1980s,

Red Delicious accounted for 75% of the crop grown 
in Washington. Until the 1990s, when new varieties

developed by American growers originally for 
export markets, like the Gala and the Fuji,

started to make their way back into the domestic 
market, Americans finally realized, there are

apples that actually taste good. The industry was 
caught off guard by a sudden change in consumer

preferences as well as growing competition from 
Chinese orchards. American apple growers found

themselve having surplus crop worth close to 
$800 million between 1997 and 2000. In 2000,

A total of $138 million bailout, or roughly 
$30,000 per grower in Washington, was approved

by the government as the largest bailout of the 
apple industry ever. However, this only partially

reduced growers' financial problems; as a result, 
the industry has since focused on exports. So the

idea is like, okay. since Americans now have 
realized how disgusting Red Delicious is, let’s

sell it to those foreigners who are still unaware 
of how terrible it is before they figure it out.

classic Corporate America. Ok, that’s the big 
picture of the whole Red Delicious shenanigan.

Let’s also talk about some interesting details 
about it. So Where are red delicious apples grown?

This question is answered by an article titled 
“All About Red Delicious Apples” published on

Minneopa Orchards’s website. According to this 
article, Cooler climates are ideal for growing

Red Delicious apples. Washington State provides a 
large portion of the Red Delicious apples consumed

in the United States. Red Delicious trees 
thrive in the sunny fall and chilly winter.

That's because the apple only develops its 
distinctive red color under environments of

sufficient sunlight, and it also requires 
700–800 cooler hours to produce fruit. Why

are Red Delicious apples cheap? The question is 
answered by an article titled “The Red Delicious

is an apple atrocity. Why are we growing billions 
of pounds of them each year?” which was published

by The Counter. According to this article, Red 
Delicious is particularly popular in markets with

low average incomes due to its low cost. For a 
wide range of reasons, the variety typically costs

less. The price has plummeted due to weak domestic 
demand and the fact that they are typically grown

on older trees, where the startup costs have 
already been paid off. Additionally, because

the Red Delicious variety was created almost a 
century ago, their production does not include

the "club fees" charged to orchards growing more 
recent proprietary strains like the Honeycrisp.

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