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Now I haven't had 6 apples at once, but have had a few after picking some particularly good batches and that was enough to do in my belly for the day. I do have a weak spot for some nice Mutsu or Jonagolds. Hmm, we are coming upon that time of year now that I recall....
Never had those kind! Where can you find em
I'm in Pennsylvania, and we seem to have pretty solid apple country here. Some of the farms you can go to and they got 6-10 varieties depending when you go and how successful the crop's been.
Mutsu are usually called Crispin here. Not sure if that's light racism or one of those trademarked names or both, like Pink Ladies are trademarked so everyone else's are Cripp's Pink, which is a weird name to me.
I have a few regular spots I hit up for them, and I check the local paper to see who's offering stuff I may not have had before. There's a ton of vintage apples out there, and it's fun to compare them and different seasons seem to make a few have years they're particularly good or not so good. It's one of the few food adventures that isn't too expensive or unhealthy, so it's a win on all accounts.
That’s actually a super fun hobby! Reminds me of the old guy in NC trying to preserve over 1k apple cultivars. Maybe I’ll try to find some fun ones this :)
Are those two your favorite? I will see if I can find them.
I just like tasty things, but I do like thinking it helps encourage people to keep the non-industrialized apples alive.
They're both really solid choices IMO. They're pretty different than each other and both pretty versatile.
Just hit farmerstands if you got the option and if they sell them loose, just grab some of each and it's very surprising how wide a range of apples there are. Lots of good ones. Macoun, winesap, braeburn, Fuji, jazz, honeycrisp. We're pretty surrounded by farm country so we have apple festivals too where they just cut you off slices of all sorts.