Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles 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.
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