Red Delicious was A+ in its original incarnation. Then folks kept grafting from bud sports (=sometimes a tree throws a branch that's a little different, it's normal) w darker & darker fruit. Selected for color instead of quality. 100+ yrs later we now have purple foamballs.https://twitter.com/faithchoyce/status/1055944025121771520 …
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Replying to @SarahTaber_bww
Apple dysgenics, selecting for color instead of quality...
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Replying to @pnin1957 @SarahTaber_bww
But 'Red Delicious'ification is not inevitable. I wouldn't have 16 better apples in my local grocery stores (I counted & tasted) if 'consumers ruin everything' was. And Red Delicious sales have crashed massively in favor of better ones like Honeycrisp or Fuji, & aren't returning.
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I see it as more consistent with a post-WWII story of cuisine recovering from industrialization where the priority was feeding everyone cheaply, then richer sophisticated consumers learning how bad it is & demanding better. (Cheese, beer, wine, vegetables - everything, really.)
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(So it'd be a Durkheimian thing: a Kuznets curve for cuisine rather than the environment, to put it another way.)
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