Extremely passionate niche communities about seemingly mundane things are my absolute favorite thing about the internet.
The only thing I actually miss about reddit is the neverbrokeabone subreddit. A whole community dedicated to trash talking weak-boned bitches was just hilarious to me.
I’ve never broken a bone. When I remember that I become acutely aware of how fragile my bones and everything else about my body is for a while.
Isn’t breaking bones a rare thing? Wouldn’t much more people fall into the never broke a bone category than those who did?
40-50% of people fracture a bone in childhood. It’s less common for adults.
Exactly, that’s what made the community so funny. You might have a few hundred thousand members who had never broken a bone, but then just due to statistics, every day you’d have a couple people break a bone. So it was a perfect opportunity to flame them for having brittle baby bird bones.
Have you seen Ian’s Shoelace Site? It’s serious business. And actually useful.
That’s so weird I taught myself how to tie my shoes in the “Ian knot” when I was like 12 to seem special and I had no idea it was a whole site.
For anyone out there who doesn’t know it already, learn the Ian knot. Life saver
funny enough learning the Ian knot is the only way I’m able to reliably tie my shoes. bunny ear method works half the time, the standard knot just doesn’t translate between my brain and fingers
Oh wow, that’s the website where I learned to tie my shoelaces about 20 years ago. My shoelaces kept coming undone and I finally went to look for a solution online. Turns out I’ve been using a granny knot all my life until then.
I saw that on somethingawful ages ago!
This was the internet before Facebook.
Anybody else remember bad-candy.com? It was just one guy reviewing terrible candies, like Swedish salty licorice and circus peanuts. I miss the old internet.
Circus peanuts are great, you just have to like the artificial banana flavor (which is what they are, and that’s one of my fave candy flavors so).
But if you miss the old internet, you’ll like this :) it’s a search that brings up very old pages. Nostalgia trip fr.
There was this fantastic list on chocolate bars and taste per dollar for each. Sadly it’s buried by SEO listicles and I’ve never been able to find it again
I have a feeling it was their favorite apple because it was good for making booze, pies and sauce, not eating raw.
Granny Smith is similar in that role nowadays.
Granny Smith is the only apple I will eat. Fight me.
Granny Smiths rise up! 💪
You can’t. You’re stuck in your wheelchair grandma.
😭
Granny Smith eaters probably drink black coffee, rye whiskey neat and punch kittens.
Argh there! Are you questioning my kitten punching skills? Sounds like youre itching for a good ol fashioned whollupup! The ol kangaroo toss up. A salad with ranch dressing! If you take my meaning. Have at you!
I like eating Granny Smith apples with some dipping caramel. Sweet and tart.
Gala for me
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I don’t think I can even find Red Delicious in the stores any more. The new varieties have really taken it’s mealy blandness away.
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It used to be incredible. It was bred for stability and aesthetics back innthe 80s which ruined it.
Makes sense. They’re absolutely disgusting
nope I had the misfortune of eating them pretty sure you can still find em in morrisons bloody wallpaper paste mush and doesn’t even taste good somehow my gramie likes them but she also likes plastic cheese and all that pink ladies are where it’s at
Im guessing you’re under 30 years old?
Why would you guess that when I’m talking about an apple variety that apparently isn’t commonly found in stores anymore
Because red delicious are still common and if you are under 30 they have been trash your whole life because you were born AFTER the breeding programs that stripped its flavor. If you are over 40 you remember a stretch when they were good. If you are in your thirties it’s going to be hit or miss.
They used to be remarkable but that’s when they would not be entirely red.
I’m in my 50s and Red Delicious have always been tasteless and gritty.
Then you and your parents don’t know how to select ripe apples.
What’s wrong with Granny Smiths? Crisp, slightly sweet, tart. What’s not to love?
Who doesn’t love chomping down own a tart juicy granny?
But Prime Rouge/Akane is still the best. Though it doesn’t hold long.
Fuji Apple:
Yet another demon spawn of the Red Delicious (crossed with a Ralls Janet) this gravelly choking hazard named after Fujisaki City, Japan is a J-Pop Star of an apple fit with a ravenous fanbase that many Americans will find difficult to understand. Personally, it is beyond comprehension how this super-hard medieval weapon masquerading as a fruit could become the most popular apple in Japan (and a top 5 apple worldwide). Aside from a semi-sweet initial bite, this mushy, rough-skinned, experiment gone awry is a baffling oddity with a sword-like stem so sharp it will – quite literally – stab other apples in transit. Despite this, the Fuji fandom is real, uncompromising, and dedicated. A Fuji is not for everyone but, if it’s for you, it just may be your favorite apple.
Oooh! Ooh! Why i oughta! Oohhh! Mmmmmhh! (hops around, angrily)
What?! Difficult to find at peak ripeness, sure, bit fujis are top tier crisp, sweet, and big
From lower down on that site’s page dedicated to the sand-filled condom:
Lol this site is gold. Even for the good apples, the descriptions are wild.
Most would expect this clown-urine soaked frog testicle to taste like an unhealed surgical wound since each bite resembles a freshly picked scab. However, most (whoever they are) should prepare their expectations to be shattered.
Storing well through the winter, its flesh is dense, tough, and chewy like an embalmed cadaver (which quickly devolves into mush like a regular cadaver).
This is my favorite one so far- https://applerankings.com/green-dragon-apple-review/
As a long islander I can say long island also happens to be NYs sand filled condom as a whole.
We’re a bunch of sandy crotch entitled assholes lol
Staten Island is what then? Aside from really racist.
The unwashed ball sack, of course.
Isn’t that apple a cider apple? It wasn’t meant to be eaten.
Just like a sand-filled condom. Nice warning label.
That’s pretty much what the review says essentially
I make them into apple sauce and use that to make my apple butter. It’s the best apple butter I’ve made to date.
I will accept any opinions on apples so long as it includes:
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S Rank - Pink Lady, Granny Smith
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F Rank - Red Delicious
I’m old enough to remember when Red Delicious were the bomb. They really fucked them up by heavily breeding them for a tough skin for travel. They were so popular in the 80’s they bred them to shit.
They didn’t deserve this future.
I miss my Red Delicious.
Oh, holy crow! I wasn’t just wearing rose tinted glasses, they actually do suck now?! I can remember Red Delicious apples in the 90’s that’d make you wanna slap your grandma.
Not crazy. I live in Apple country (Ontario, Canada) and Red Delicious were my favourite apple until my 20’s.
A Red Delicious used to have a snap to the skin when you bit and a crisp crunch with a semi-sweet flavour. As time went on they bred more and more for the thick skin because it was so popular. In breeding that thick skin a lot of times what you get is an apple that’s mealy inside like a MacIntosh (fuck those abominations).
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/red-delicious-apples-suck_n_5b630199e4b0b15abaa061af
As opposed to the current version, which makes you wanna slap your grandma.
The “best for” entry for Red Delicious on the site is “compost.”
It’s about right.
If you put granny Smith apples as S tier we have nothing to discuss, granny smiths are dogshit.
Granny Smith apples are amazing for purposes other than just eating an apple by itself.
As are pink lady. Absolute trash
Norway has some apple varieties that are even better than Pink Lady and Granny Smith (Summerred, Gravenstein, Aroma and Discovery are the bomb).
Good fish, cheese AND apples? Norway has a good thing going.
Oh yeah. I visited my friends’ neighbours in the countryside recently and they gave me some smoked trout that was so good I almost cried. I need more!
Gravenstein makes DELICIOUS apple sauce! I have bought a case from a local farm two years in a row.
So you know little about apples and are also under 30 years of age?
Pink Ladies are B/A tier (not as shelf stable as many newer breeds and lack the intensity of a jazz, snapdragon, or cosmic crisp)
Red Delicious WERE S tier but breeding in the 80s for a larger more aesthetically pleasing apple deprived it if the bands of green and red that “marred” the surface. Those genes that made those colors contributed the apple flavor. If you can find an old cultivar of Red Delicious you’ll understand why the variety was called that.
Making me miss the red delicious tree that grew by my house growing up. They were my favorite apples back in the day but the ones at the grocery store disappoint.
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Apple Rankings is one of the few remaining gems of the internet.
Yall motherfuckers sleeping on honeycrisp
Cosmic crisp and Evercrisp are vastly superior to Honeycrisp. Cosmic Crisps are the better version of the honeycrisp largely because you can only grow them in WA right now.
I live in shit heap Texas. I will eat my honeycrisp and dream of these wonderful apples.
Cosmic crisp are very much not available to me in NJ most of the time. The word isn’t out yet. They are crisper and sweeter than a honeycrisp with better acidity and a firmer fruit with an even longer shelf life.
You’re right about Evercrisp. I had one from an amish market last year and I couldn’t believe what I was eating.
Sshhh, don’t tell. They’ll eat them.
They’re already creeping up on $3 an apple. Secrets out lol
Newtown Pippin, now there is a name I have not heard in a very long time.
Where my Braeburn boys at?
Right here. Best apple, woefully underrepresented.
I didn’t know this site existed and just checked it out. Amazing.
Missing my two favorites: Gravenstein and Ingrid Marie. Great eating apples, a bit of the tart side with just slight sweetness.
