Not true...If you find a good one, both the flavor and texture are most excellent and quite different from any apple!
Look, they even have their own unique emoji! Although to be fair, quite a few fruits do...
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I don't like pears unless they come in a can with sugar syrup.
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shareNot to get in to a food fight or anything, but imo, red or golden "delicious" apples are as bland as fruit gets imo. Not to say all pears are better, but a perfectly ripe, perhaps an admittedly overpriced Harry and David "royal riviera," or "comise" to the plebs, is exquisite, with skin like candy, flesh like heaven and a tiny core, to boot, so there's more to eat.
Best apple I have found in a regular grocer's is a pink lady aka Cripps pink, combining the crisp tartness of a granny Smith with the sweetness of a McIntosh.
I've never had a particularly good pear, but I've had amazing apples. Unfortunately, those amazing apples no longer exist, and never will again. I last had one in 1991 when I was 16. They were from a very old and big apple tree in the neighbor's backyard, and when they got to be about 2" diameter, still green and just starting to turn red, they were unbelievably good. They had the perfect combination of sweet and sour (emphasis on sour), with no bitterness whatsoever. Every summer from my earliest memories us kids would gorge on those apples. I used to climb the tree with a grocery bag and pick as many as I could, and then eat them until I couldn't take another bite. I'd cut off slices and sprinkle on a little salt, which made them even better.
In 1992 a despicable old lady bought that house next door and tore up the backyard, destroying that old tree in the process. For many years I regretted that I didn't have the chance to save some seeds from those apples before the Wicked Witch destroyed the tree so I could plant a new one, but eventually I learned that it wouldn't have done any good anyway, because apple trees don't breed true. The only way I could have preserved that exact variety of apples would have been to clone the tree, such as through grafting, and I have no idea how to do that now, let alone when I was 17.
All the varieties of apples you find at the grocery store, e.g., McIntosh, Red Delicious, Granny Smith, etc., are all clones, and are all trademarked too. If you buy, say, a McIntosh apple at the store and plant one of its seeds, it's not going to grow a McIntosh apple tree. Its apples will just be a random variety with random flavor characteristics.
Maybe that old can't had a good sister from the east who saved its sister tree for all the good little boys and girls to eat their fill of her apples and nap under her shade.
shareI'm from Maine which is already as eastern as you can get in the US, so maybe from one of the other cardinal directions.
It was a dying tree (as far back as I can remember, which is about 1978, its trunk was already largely hollow with about an 8" diameter hole on one side, just under the crotch of its biggest/lowest branch), so I don't know if it would still be alive today, but it definitely would have lived for many years past 1992, since it was still bearing fruit on all of its branches at the time. I'm sure it would have lived for at least long enough for me to learn that it needed to be cloned, and find someone who knows how to do it (I learned that when I first got a PC and internet access in the early 2000s).
The old bat also destroyed an old Red Delicious apple tree at the same time, but I didn't care all that much about that one because those are my least favorite type of apple, and in green apple form before they are ripe, they aren't worth eating at all.
Let me tell you about Cesar Romero and oranges.
Now you know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9ErHr1eKgk&t=53s
They are healthy.
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