FUCK red delicious apples, where my granny smith squad at?
this is actually very interesting though, and as usual, shows that capitalist ‘innovation’ usually means fucking everything up
where my granny smith squad at?
nope honeycrisp is where it’s at
this is actually very interesting though, and as usual, shows that capitalist ‘innovation’ usually means fucking everything up
I wonder though would it be much better how much better could it be under socialism? It probably wouldn’t be so extreme but almost all the fruits you can buy at a store are bred for resilliance over all else (like flavor). Idk if this would be very avoidable unless farming itself was revolutionized.
honeycrisp are good, I just like the sourness and crunch of a granny smith over the sweetness of a honeycrisp .
the reason that capitalism does this is to try and infinitely expand. new strains to market to sell more apples, that’s it, that’s the entire idea. and so in this pursuit of infinite growth they act like short sighted idiots who run off the cliff edge. once you remove the profit motive, there is no reason to forcibly ‘innovate’ constantly, we should change agriculture for a large number of reasons, but in this case it’s outside factors that influence agriculture that simply is not an issue when your primary focus goes from selling a good to providing food for people because they need food
honeycrisp are good, I just like the sourness and crunch of a granny smith over the sweetness of a honeycrisp .
granny smith have a great taste but are more often mealy than not in my experience. Honeycrip is one of the only breed of apple that is almost always crisp and it’s also a good balance between sour and sweet
new strains to market to sell more apples, that’s it, that’s the entire idea. and so in this pursuit of infinite growth they act like short sighted idiots who run off the cliff edge. once you remove the profit motive, there is no reason to forcibly ‘innovate’ constantly
Is it just a problem of having too many types of apples that nobody needs or is that making them more vulnerable to diseases? I genuinely don’t know much about how apple farms work at all.
Traverso explains that on any apple tree you have what are called “sports,” which are apples that might have a slightly different genetic expression than the rest. When Red Delicious apples mutated toward more consistent coloring — i.e., brighter reds, less striping — farmers favored them, because this was a marketable quality. And therein lies the problem.
“It turns out that a lot of the genes that coded for the flavor-producing compounds were on the same chromosomes as the genes for the yellow striped skin,” Traverso explains, “so as you favored the more consistently colored apples, you were essentially disfavoring the same genes that coded for great flavor.”
Hootin and hollerin at the fact they selective bred for red color so much that it ruined the flavor. I guess capitalism does innovate after all.
That’s really fascinating. I wonder whether there exists a line of the old, “ugly” Red Delicious apples somewhere in the world. It seems unlikely to me that they’d be completely gone.
