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Crispin Apples are SO WITHOUT

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I think the best form of apples are Granny Smiths. They are superior to every form of apple there is and will be. So imagine my heartfelt disgust when I came home and realized that, in a moment of unpardonable distraction, I had picked up a bag of the traitorous Crispin apples at the grocery. Words cannot describe the gastronomical misery I feel, now that I have a 5 pounder of Crispins to get through! You might think that, as similar as they look, they would taste the same. But NO. They don't.

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The difference starts right when you bite into the Granny Smiths. You can hear it resounding in your skull, the crunchety crunch of absolute anticipation. Scarcely has this sound of foreplay died down when the delightful nectar slides down your chin and slithers its way into every little pit of taste sensation on your tongue. The taste is precisely described as EXPLOSIVE. It's sour at first and if you are in the right mood, raises a series of goosebumps up and down your whole body. Then the sugary syrupy potion takes over your senses with undertones of the sour explosion that hit earlier.

Here is when you forget that you are eating a mere apple. It transcends into a higher sensual experience. You can't stop yourself and take another massive bite of this piece of perfection in your hands. The reverberation of the most joyful music you have ever heard livens up your sinuses once more. Then the most narcotic of textures caresses your teeth and your palate. It doesn't stick to your teeth or coat your palate with slime. It's not gritty or cloying or pasty. It feels like you have swallowed a light happy spirit. It lights your thoughts up and spurs energetic brain function as it makes its way across your mouth. Devouring a Granny Smith is like having an apple high.

The Crispins on the other hand are just disappointing to say the least. In fact, I am not sure I can devote any more alphabet real estate to these pathetic loser breed of apples. I just wish I had been a bit more awake during yesterday's zombie walk through the aisles.

Alas. This lamentable crispin week is going to stretch so unbearably long.
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💬 8 comments

  1. janelle ·

    Turn them into apple crisp if they're not good for chomping on! Trust me...it's a tasty way to deal with a less than superior apple!
  2. james ·

    When I pick up apples too gross to eat I cube them, cut up an onion and a tiny bit of garlic and saute them with olive oil. I use that for a carb in my meals and it tastes great while getting rid of inferior apples.
  3. joshua ·

    I toured Washington for two weeks visiting about a dozen apple producers. The best apple I tried the entire time was an organic Braeburn right out of the box - no waxes (natural or otherwise) applied.

    I probably tried a dozen varieties. You must like tart fruit. According to the apple producers I visited the best eating apple available is the honeycrisp - they also suggested mixing granny smiths with other apples when baking. I haven't done any of that yet!
  4. tinypliny ·

    @janelle! How can I forget the most delectable crisp you made for me some months back?!! The taste of that heavenly dessert still floats by my memory during coffee times! What is your recipe for the apple crisp? Do you have any favourite online recipes that you can link? (Bear in mind that I just learned how to operate my oven about a week back!)

    @james: What?? Apples sauteed with onions and garlic... in olive oil?? That's the first time I have heard of such a transgressive carb source! Tell me that you are joshing?

    @joshua: Braeburn?? What does that taste like? And yes, you are spot on with the tart observation. The tarter the fruit, the more excited I get about it. :) Oh, and what is this job you hold down again? The last time I checked you were into some kind of quality control intricacies. How did an apple tour come into the picture? Perplexed...

  5. carolinian ·

    The Jazz apple is the most perfect apple that has ever existed. It fits the Socratic ideal of the prototype of an apple in the human mind. Braeburn and honeycrisp are preferable to just about anything, but a Jazz is truly the king of all apples. When you eat one, you will never want to eat another type of apple for the rest of your life. They are $2.49/lb, but a jewel of an apple commands a jewel's price.
  6. tinypliny ·

    And where does one procure this allegedly oh-so-awesome super apple? And why is it so perfect anyway? Does it allow you sing like Madeleine Peyroux after you finish eating it?? We need proof @carolinian. HARD incontrovertible EVIDENCE. I am not letting some hula dancing saxophone blowing apple take it away from Granny -the E.c.s.t.a.s.y- Smith.
  7. carolinian ·

    :::link:::

    They're not in season until later in the year.
  8. jacob ·

    Oh my, I've been seduced into re-thinking Granny Smiths. Apples are not my favorite, but I think I'm need to have another roll.

    Great post.

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