why do apples suck now?

[Just A Butt]

this is bullshit, man
fix it

 

[NigKid]

ask that bitch from snow white, regulation caught up after she started dateraping people in wholefoods

 

[Bigmanontheblock]

Whenever I find a good apple like fiji, they just fuck it up and I have to move on to another. Now all apples are fucked and I can only tolerate granny Smith because they have something resembling flavor

 

[Skitarii]

Bad-tasting apples are easier to mass-produce and contain more volume because "muh bigger is better".

Apples are a monoculture tho, I wouldn't worry about it. Just wait for the next plague to wipe out all the shit-tasting apples and let the sweeter, natural apples proliferate

 

[eDove]

I've always hated apples. I only had the store-bought as a kid and they were a gross chore to eat.

 

[My Name is Ed]

Oh God, I'm not the only one that noticed.

I'd eat the fuckers obsessively as a kid, now I'm put off by the sight of them. They're always too grainy or too tart.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Chinese labor

 

[discombobulate]

I blame disease/drought resistance being desired (and therefore not selecting taste/texture as carefully) over just spraying the damn crops.

Apples are a monoculture tho, I wouldn't worry about it. Just wait for the next plague to wipe out all the shit-tasting apples and let the sweeter, natural apples proliferate

Not happening. Mass production of apples is done through grafting onto root stock (because they don't breed true), which can be a whole shit ton of different things (including other Malus) and are usually chosen for local hardiness/disease resistance. With the apple tree bits separated from the ground by the root stock many diseases aren't much of an issue. Also, "natural apples" are usually more sour, less sweet, and extremely variable in quality.

 

[Skitarii]

I blame disease/drought resistance being desired (and therefore not selecting taste/texture as carefully) over just spraying the damn crops.


Not happening. Mass production of apples is done through grafting onto root stock (because they don't breed true), which can be a whole shit ton of different things (including other Malus) and are usually chosen for local hardiness/disease resistance. With the apple tree bits separated from the ground by the root stock many diseases aren't much of an issue. Also, "natural apples" are usually more sour, less sweet, and extremely variable in quality.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Mass production

also something something adding cinnamon to artificial apple flavoring making peoples perceptions of apples off

but it's mostly mass production

 

[HERE YOU GO]

Try honeycrisp apples, also grow some of your own because people suck

 

[L50LasPak]

I noticed this happened like years ago with navel oranges. Some time around like 2017 or so everything the stores carried seemed to be blighted or damaged. They're also more sour now and have almost no pith. I haven't had a good one since then, can't help but feel it was a bad omen.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

I've heard that they breed them more for appearance that taste these days.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

Apples are fine with a little bit of smoked gouda or some sharp cheddar otherwise get out of my face with that shit.

 

[Niggernerd]

Apples are lame. I like bananas because they have no bones

 

[Shidoen]

Because you're not getting apples that are both Crispy and Juicy. You're getting one or the other.

 

[snailslime]

because you're not buying the sour ones

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Shitty apples look sexier than delicious apples.