Between kiwis, litchis and aloe it really feels like east asia got all the real good fruits
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect
hot take, apples are amazing actually, we've all just been dulled into insensitivity by shitty industrial apples widely available
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Replying to @perdricof @Nymphomachy
I have found that Sugar Bee apples are a significant improvement over Honeycrisps but cost twice as much as Honeycrisps because as a novel variant of Honeycrisps they are still under propagation rights and a cut goes to the original breeder Yes, IP law affects apples
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
as an upstate new yorker i can say that all orchard-picked apples are ambrosia delivered from the gods of which all supermarket apples are a pale imitation
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect
I mean I don't even generally like the taste of apple juice which is more or less the purest distillation of what a decent apple would theoretically taste like
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @perdricof
Well, that obvious depends on what kind of apple The best apple juice isn't sold as juice, it's sold as cider -- apples that all came from the tree and haven't had their appley goodness filtered out for long-term storage Like single-malt scotch
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But do not buy cider from the goddamned grocery store. It’s pasteurized and not as good. Buy it from an orchard. (Or buy Simply brand Apple Juice, closest thing to real cider you’ll find at the supermarket,)
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Yeah, just as with wine vs. grape juice, all cider in the good old days was "hard cider" because that's what happens to cider when you store it long term
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Philip_J_Powers and
"Soft cider" only exists at the grocery store because of pasteurization, just like Dr. Welch inventing Welch's grape juice as specifically a temperance thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Philip_J_Powers and
I do think hard cider is a greatly underappreciated alcoholic beverage, and the reputation of cider took a really unfortunate hard hit thanks to Prohibition -- since unlike with beer or wine, the US was the world's center of "cider culture"
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Tons of highly-regarded varieties of cider apples were lost, as orchard owners hastily replaced them with the cheapest, hardiest eating apple varieties to desperately try to stay in business Same with vineyard owners and table grapes It was a bad scene for everybody
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