big red apples
Oct 16, 2017 06:40:04 #
60 yrs ago I use to eat red apples that were almost as big as a grapefruit. what ever happened to them? all I see now are medium size apples some with almost no taste.
Oct 16, 2017 06:45:31 #
bull drink water wrote:
60 yrs ago I use to eat red apples that were almost as big as a grapefruit. what ever happened to them? all I see now are medium size apples some with almost no taste.
The goal is get people to eat apples. If they eat one big one, that's probably enough for them. Smaller apples might require a second course. Also, small items are easier to deal with. That's probably why watermelons are now smaller and more round than they used to be. Remember when watermelons were rather long? Now they can grow them shaped like cubes to get more into a shipping crate.
Oct 16, 2017 06:45:44 #
Oct 16, 2017 06:57:29 #
Oct 16, 2017 07:10:07 #
bull drink water wrote:
60 yrs ago I use to eat red apples that were almost as big as a grapefruit. what ever happened to them? all I see now are medium size apples some with almost no taste.
Smaller apples are the result of successive breeding for other characteristics, like crispness. Roses, too, have lost their fragrance due to successive breeding for other qualities. Progress is seldom in a straight line!
Oct 16, 2017 07:16:49 #
Oct 16, 2017 07:19:28 #
hj
Loc: Florida
I have to agree - As a kid we walked home from school and ate apples from the orchards along the road... BIG, firm flesh, juicy and flavorful. Hybrids have ruined the flavor of apples.... it isn't about our getting older or taste buds changing.
bull drink water wrote:
60 yrs ago I use to eat red apples that were almost as big as a grapefruit. what ever happened to them? all I see now are medium size apples some with almost no taste.
Oct 16, 2017 07:37:26 #
I buy Pink Lady and Sweet Tango apples from Costco in Miami, and eat one or two a day--every day. They are not big, but they are sweet, crisp, and full of flavor.
Oct 16, 2017 07:41:38 #
Tom47
Loc: Gettysburg, PA
I remember an apple the size of a grapefruit that grew in a field row next to the well house on the farm. Name was Pound Apple the tree is long gone now I do not know if Pound Apples grown today.
Oct 16, 2017 07:55:03 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
I remember those big red apples. I think they came from the State of Washington. I eat Fuji and Gala apples. But, they are smaller.
Oct 16, 2017 08:03:44 #
Kmgw9v wrote:
I buy Pink Lady and Sweet Tango apples from Costco in Miami, and eat one or two a day--every day. They are not big, but they are sweet, crisp, and full of flavor.
All those apples seem to be keeping you "youthful looking". lol, Keep on, keepen on.. You're a good man, Kmgw9v. RJM
Oct 16, 2017 08:08:38 #
digit-up wrote:
All those apples seem to be keeping you "youthful looking". lol, Keep on, keepen on.. You're a good man, Kmgw9v. RJM
You made me laugh!!!
Thanks, and have a great day.
Oct 16, 2017 09:14:11 #
Things were always bigger and better "back then." Anyone really want to go back?
Oct 16, 2017 10:53:40 #
jaymatt wrote:
Things were always bigger and better "back then." Anyone really want to go back?
Right - like snow that was twelve feet deep, and temperatures routinely going well below zero in the winter and over 100 in the summer. And a family of fifteen living in a 10 x 10' room, keeping warm through body heat. Yes, life was tough in the old days.
Oct 17, 2017 02:08:44 #
jaymatt wrote:
Things were always bigger and better "back then." Anyone really want to go back?
back then for me was 1944-1965. I did just fine with what we had.
1 food that tasted like it was supposed to taste.
2 a street car and bus system that took me from one end of Cleveland Ohio to the other.
3 the ability to live from birth to 30 without a car.
4 free admission to the zoo and aquarium.
5 pay phones everywhere.
6 army/ navy surplus stores that seemed to have everything.
someone else can make an opposing list.
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