He is opposed to fresh local food.

all the apples I mentioned are grown in New Zealand, I think. Gala and Fuji anyway. What's frustrating is that a New Zealand apple tastes fresher than a local apple when you are shopping in a grocery store. You have to go directly to the orchard or find a farmers' market if you want a yummy local apple.

I am trying a recipe tonight that calls for red apples, and I successfully convinced myself that I could not just swap in green apples and expect the flavors to work the same way. So per LabRat's advice I was going to go with Honeycrisp apples as the lesser-of-all-red-apple-evils, but my grocery store didn't carry them. So I settled on the Pinata apple, purely on the fact that it was way more expensive than all the other apples there, including the organics. If it's expensive it's probably better, right? Upon coming home and googling I discovered this site which claims

Score! The recipe calls for them to be cooked in the oven along with a bunch of other ingredients; I'll let you know how they turn out.

Yah. Somebody did mention organics earlier, so we got the alar spam. When we eat in-season, right off your neighbors tree is better and you can get more interesting fruit. I have no problem with big apple growers selling a good product, but assuming someone is only buying local to avoid the long gone alar scare is idiotic.

We'll just pop by and judge it ourselves thank you. :)

Granted, I have not had HBO for some time, but the last I saw the lead female character would be Cheryl David, Larry's wife. Who are they talking about?

OMG Honeycrisp are the ƒuckin' awesomest, ever!!!1 ... I just popped my Honeycrisp cherry.

I'm with you.

They taste like a mouthful of win.

better than a stayman winesap?

I can't believe I didn't mention the Honey crisp or the Pink Lady.

I've never had a stayman winesap apple and Bruce lives near an orchard? I am very envious. I bet he's baking a pie right now.

Weird that this thread is back up again right now. We're going apple picking tomorrow.

You'd better call ahead and make sure there are still apples. We went last week and were thwarted. If the man was to be believed, the whole apple crop was shite because of a late frost.

said there were no apples to pick. It sucked cuz the kids were really jazzed to go a pickin.

At least you might be able to find a farm with bales of hay,pumpkins and a scarecrow or two real soon. Oh and lots of apple cider too.

We were in luck. Plenty of apples. Beautiful weather for it. I took the day off. We had a picnic there. Great time. Traffic sucked getting home though. Nothing like DC traffic to suck the restfulness out of you as you are getting home from being away.

wow, that looks idyllic.