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  • Red Delicious Apples, the ultimate looks-can-be-deceiving fruit.

  • You will think with a name like that, it will actually taste, well, delicious, but nope.

  • They taste just terrible.

  • And guess what?

  • They were the most produced apple in the US for 50 years.

  • I know, right?

  • But as it turns out, it used to have an acceptable taste previously.

  • The Red Delicious Apple once called Hawkeye was a tasty red-yellow-stripe fruit.

  • However, in 1922, mutation of a Red Delicious Apple lead to a focus on prettier redder apple.

  • And then people started to just, like, try to breed it into redder and prettier.

  • So they end up becoming the Red Delicious we know today, which are terrible.

  • As consumers discover the better-tasting varieties, the industry face a surplus and financial crisis.

  • So what do we do?

  • Explore Red Delicious Apple to unsuspecting foreigners before they find out how terrible it is.

  • That's what we do.

Red Delicious Apples, the ultimate looks-can-be-deceiving fruit.

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