Honeycrisp vs Red Delicious - How We Finally Got Good Apples | Planet Money | NPR
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- The mid-20th century was a bad time to be an apple lover. The produce section of supermarkets only had a few apples, and one stood tall above the rest: Mealy, and tough-skinned, it was the Red Delicious.
Back in those days, apples were a commodity, and the race to provide apples at the lowest price suppressed prices for all apple growers and discouraged apple innovation. A few things helped change that world for the better - and chief among them was the discovery of the Honeycrisp.
This is the story of that miracle apple and the innovation that made the business of better apples sustainable - all while hastening the downfall of the Red Delicious.
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The youtube algorithm has finally found a video tailor made for my oddly specific passion over the history of apples.
This episode of Drunk History is really weird and unslurred.
Don't compare npr to that trash
I visited an apple orchard about 10 years ago when my daughter was a kindergardener. The orchard manager told me that the deer that raided his orchard had a decided preference for Honeycrisps.
I agree that deer might have been me
Oh deer
What does this story have to do with your daughter?
@@dario0523 Context
I lost it at the Aussie spreading Vegemite 4:10
Notice he wasn't stupid enough to actually take a BITE.
Hope you find it back, mate.
I said do ya speaka my language
Peanut butter on an apple I've done. Salt on an apple I've done. I think I'd actually do Vegemite on an apply... on a dare.
I hated raw apples until Honeycrisp. Now I can't get enough of them.
lol raw apples
I'd like my apple medium-rare, please
I LOVE HONEYCRISP APPLES!
People tell me you can grill or boil corn so why not apples, eh!? I'll try it someday.
@@burtan2000 You can boil apples. That's how applesauce is made, but you do it in a small amount of water so the juice isn't lost.
Grilled fruit is typically delicious, so grilled apples would be great. Grilled lemons and grilled pineapple are awesome.
Everything about this is incredible - the story, the newspaper articles, the acting, the aussie spreading vegemite - it's all brilliant
Spat out my coffee watching the bloke spread vegemite on the apple. Reminded me of my childhood of vegemite on everything: bread, cookies, porridge.
I don’t know if anyone else took the time to read the newspaper articles during the spinning newspaper section of the video, but whoever wrote those, I salute your hard work.
You guys are SUCH dorks! Great video!
I was in a group of people asked what their fave apple was and after I said undoubtedly Honeycrisp, someone else felt compelled to say, "no, I always really just like Red Delicious." ...right...
I preferred them as a kid cause they weren’t sour like the green ones. That’s the only logic I think.
Red delicious are the absolute worst apples. I like Braeburn.
Braeburn texture is the worst IMO.
Fuji and Gala for me pls.
"Braeburns can go brae-BURN in a fire" said a certain Internet person
Envy, if you can find them.
Granny Smith & Pink Ladys
I was introduced to the Honeycrisp apple at Costco back in 2014. Haven't looked at any other apple since! ♥
I was one of the taste testers for cosmic crisp.
How does it compare?
I heard it’s delicious
Honeycrisp are the apples that made me realize there are more to apples than I previously imagined. Smitten is my fav but incredibly hard to find and not in season very long, with Envy and HC coming in close second.
I find Honeycrisps to be a little watery. It's good, but I don't want to eat a lot of it. I also don't want to pay $2 an apple for it either. I love Pink Lady, Macintosh, or Braeburns.
Try Ambrosia apples if you haven't. I find them better than HC for eating raw -- especially alongside some nicely aged cheddar -- but HC is a much better apple for cooked applications with its more sweet-tart flavor.
@@fourthgirl If by watery, you mean that it has a tendency to exude a lot of juice, that's by design. Honeycrisp apple cells are bigger than most, so they hold more juice. If by watery you mean they taste diluted and not very sweet, then you probably got a bad batch.
These don't get nearly the views they deserve
i guess people just dont know planet money also makes videos, even though they advertise it at the end of podcast
NPR is very informative it sucks they've made themselves so political. I'm not a leftie but I can listen to one out of every three This American Life's when they just present interesting stories that are entertaining and thought provoking. The other times it's just them pushing for gay trans baby rights and arguing for late term abortions. The idea of them being an "intellectual" channel while being so obviously close minded and one sided in their views is a joke. There's no objectivity in their channel. They just push their agenda and basically say if you have any different ideas than us you must be stupid.
Troyer good joke
Eh, the premise and the script were really good, but all the "acting" and "quirkyness" of the video put me off.
A video about mealy Red Delicious apples with abominably stupid apples deserves as few views as possible (I couldn't stand until even the 2:00 mark) and as many down votes as possible.
I had a SweeTango apple for the first time and it changed my opinion of apples. So good.
Hello and welcome to Planet Money. Who else loves that opening
So well done and informative. Please continue these awesome planet money shorts.
I agree, Red Delicious are the worst!
Why don't people like them. They're big juicy and sweet
silloweet they’re mealy af!
@@silloweet they are not sufficient enough for some people
@@silloweet They are big, I'll give you that. But their flavor is terrible. MUCH better-tasting apples have existed for centuries, those just don't travel well or look as nice.
@@wholeNwon They're sweet lol
David Bedford is to apple what Steve Jobs is to, uhh, apple...thank you I’ll be here all night :)
Thanks for the warning...! 😉🤣😎
Wow, i sure love npr! I'm sure multitudes of thoughtful (and slightly quirky) people will find this channel in no time!
Honey crisp are expensive but so freaking good!!!!
Hahahaha, too sweet garbage.
i had a similar experience with apples, as a kid all my parents bought were red delicious and i hated them, i just figured i hated apples so i never ate them. Then one day a friend told me about honeycrisps and i thought of cereal at first so i said "ok, ill try it." My entire life changed in one bite, i now consume more apples in a week than in all my childhood years combined (not just honeycrisp, every kind...except red delicious, those can rot in hell). God bless you Mr. Bedford
My mum would pack slices of Red Delicious with my lunch and I always gave or threw them away. Hated the bland taste and powdery texture.
The first great tasting apple I had was a Cox’s Orange Pippin from a Tesco near my University in London in the mid 1990s.
Red delicious should not even be considered apples- despite any genotypic or phenotypical similarities they may share with actual apples.
My girlfriend and I literally watched the sweet iden scene ten times cracking up every time. Good video.
Long ago I switched to Granny Smith apples because I like the bite. I can believe that the Honeycrisp is better than the Red Delicious, but don't really care enough to try a sweet apple.
same. i love the tart crisp of a granny smith, and the flesh is always firm and never gritty or mealy like other apples. Honey crisps are good, but like every other sweet apple, theres always 1 out of every 10 apples that are mushy and gritty...
What about Gala apples? I remember them and Fujis coming on the scene in the mid/late 90s? I want more apple history!
Galas are my favorite. Earlier, as a kid, I preferred winesaps, galas not being available or know at the time.
@@BlackJar72 Winesaps are awesome! I wish I could get some. They make super dried apples, and cider... wow!
@@BlackJar72 Jazz are like galas but with a better texture.
You guys had a lot of fun making this :)
I love these shorts! Please keep them up.
It’s funny because he was from North Carolina, which is also one of the United States’ biggest apple producers. I grow apples and produce cider in Virginia, and mostly grow old heirloom varieties. You’ve not had a real apple till you’ve tried an old heirloom variety. But alas, the fruit in your grocery store was developed for storage and shipping purposes rather than taste. Great video NPR
Yeah, unfortunately, if you don't live near where the apples are grown, you're stuck with what can be shipped. For those of us in that situation, I'm grateful somebody shoved Red Delicious off the shelves.
When I was in the UK I loved going to the local markets where small growers offered lots of home grown fruit varieties. Some of the best tasting apples I ever tried I discovered there, including my favorite, the Cox’s Orange Pippin.
I can remember hating red delicious apples back in the day. Still do to this day. They were overly sweet and the texture was awful. My favorites run to more tart apples. And the honeycrisp is the perfect balance of sweet and tart. Love them.
I find eating Red Delicious when they are a little green (red but not full ripe) to have a good firm crisp texture and a slightly tart taste. But ya, full ripe is simply nasty.
Wow man, this was amazing. NPR on youtube is almost comedy based, NPR on radio is monotone information radio.
The write to you from Washington State, which rightly or wrongly, considers itself the home of the Red Delicious apple. God knows we produce enough of them. As a child I love them. As an adult, I did not and assumed that They had changed. After a long drought of apples eating, I found the Fuji and have never strayed. It's history is much like described here, but in Japan. Apart from being a bit too sweet sometimes, it is the prefect eating apple. I am renewing my vows as I conclude this, Yum!
The real home of Red Delicious is KANSAS. The truth is that commercial interests RUINED that apple. Red Delicious came about in the 1890s and its original name was "Hawkeye." It was selected in the 30's and 40's for commerce because it had a ridiculously long shelf life and transported easily....but unfortunately growers didn't pay any attention to its deteriorating flavor and texture. It went from fresh Maine lobster to McDonalds lukewarm crappy lobster.
Im here because of Mr. Cameron's Economic class
I love this video! And Honey Crisp are my favorite apples too :)
Honeycrisp is arguably the most delicious apple of them all.
thought so too until I ate a sugarbee - damn those things are amazing
Apples need acid, not more sweetness--yuck!
@@lightdark00 when you eat them with peanut butter 👌
Errhka even homemade peanut butter is sweet. I said acid.
Try OPAL apples. You can slice them into a bag and leave them overnight in the refrigerator, they do not brown and they taste delicious. Also, Red Delicious tasted great in the fifties, then breeders messed with them making them big, and tasteless. (Pink Lady is good too, but hard to find)
That pupil dilation sequence is straight from Requiem for a Dream.
no shit...
Of all the lovely weirdness in this video, the crown adored with sticks stands out for me. There's a story there.
Envy is currently my favorite. Yum-yum.
Envy, yummie when I can find them. 😪
honey crisp is the only apple worth buying
LOLOLOLOL overly sweet garbage.
@@lightdark00 you enjoy your crab apples, you cretin.
Thank you, David Bedford! I've also always hated Red "Delicious" apples. There was an apple tree in my parents' back yard that had the best apples, never knew what they were, but couldn't wait until summer when they were ripe. Told mom not to bother buying RD's as I wouldn't eat them. The peel was so bitter!
"Radio company tries video for some reason"
And does a damn good job at it, too!
Who knew Planet Money's fake mustache game was so strong?
I actually prefer Red Delicious to Honeycrisp...
please don't stop these videos
i love planet money. paired with the beautiful backgrounds in america and a talent video team, what could go wrong? america is actually beautiful even with all the hate it gets
Fantastic video :). Really enjoyed learning about it.
Fantastic. Thank you. Will use it in class soon!
Thank goodness for market economies.
This was great. Very interesting and informative, I liked how throughout the whole video, I felt intrigued in all the information that was being shared. And honey crisp apple is honestly my favorite apple as well, sweet, yet has a tangy sour twist to it!
This was fun and creative 👍👍
Thank you Honeycrisp inventor!
such an amazing video! love it!
Is the handsome moustachioed man at 2:26 the tiniest person to ever live, or is that apple enormous?
Please keep these up, their soo good!!
I'm waiting for the day that this video wins me $200 from playing Jeopardy.
Very clever. Very funny and informative. Very fun. Loved it.
If we can do this for apples, how long before we do this for insulin?
I like red delicious apples and I’m proud!
I dont know why, but i smile watching this more than when i'm watching Avengers.
Great video. Love me some honeycrisps
These npr videos are marvelous. Thank you!
Fuji apples are still better tough
Fuji is good, too... cheaper as well. The ones mentioned in the video are amazing, though.
@White Rice A Granny Smith apple to the head would knock you out. Those suckers are dense.
Clearly, none of you nut cases have ever had a Honeycrisp.
@@stittyd - I've had Honeycrisp, Envy, Pink Lady, Jazz and I think the rest of those mentioned... got some Envy in the fridge right now. Those are great apples, but Fuji is still a good apple!
@White Rice - Granny Smith good, too. There's a Granny Smith tree beside our eye doctor's office and I ate some.
Just stumbled on this lol. A little history/background was missing on the Tyrant so....The Red Delicious was originally called “Hawkeye” (not great for marketing) and was actually a great apple. With slight variations in apples grown on the same tree producers used the scion wood that produced the more aesthetically pleasing apples to then graft and produce additional trees. This practice continued for generations until the Red Delicious became an entirely different apple. The other issue is due to how these apples are grown and when they are picked. The apples are picked far too early and never develop their flavor, this is for shipping purposes (certain varieties have a smaller window for flavor/ripening times) Nearly all of these “Tyrants” are grown conventionally with chemical fertilizers and sprays that produce fruit that is larger, more appealing, but with flavor that is essentially diluted. So with a sole emphasis on aesthetics and shipping/retail, the “Tyrant” was born. If you buy local and organic you’ll likely never meet another “Tyrant” lol
This video was great!
Funny and informative, great job doods!
Does anyone know what kind of map the map at :57 in the background is? it's so detailed I want to look up more like it.
A good companion piece to the recent Freakonomics piece about bananas. Comparing those stories is like ...comparing two totally different things.
Brilliant mate, Brilliant!
SweetTango is the most delicious apple I’ve ever had!!
Tree 1711 is a must have shirt
Yo! When he picked up the best apple at 2:18 I was like ... it's probably a honey crisp (the best apple).
Most surprising story.
Here in Denmark we, until recently, had about 800 varieties of apples.
Of witch 200 were local. All good for different tastes and purposes.
Alas, due to supermarkets, most of them survive only in private gardens.
Great story, great video. Honeycrisps are the best apple!
I actually prefer red delicious over Honeycrisps. I didn't as a kid. i hated how dry the skin was. But nowadays I just peel the skin off first and then sink my teeth into that delicious juice. I can sometimes get an entire glass's worth of apple juice out of a single apple just by mashing it in my mouth
Favorite Apple: Jazz! seriously, it's a revelation!
This was awesome history!
Just got some Honeycrisp apples in late summer in the northern Midwest US from a local grocery store. Came to around $2.75 for *one* apple. We got six of them. They're good, but they're not _that_ good. When I first had them several years ago, I remember them being a bit better. Before then I preferred Granny Smith or sometimes Golden Delicious.
How could a story about apples become so interesting?
Had a honey crisp for the first time last year. Now I can't eat any more of those disgusting red delicious garbage.
I love planet money💗
Now someone pioneer a durian that doesn't smell like gas leak
At our website where we ship apples direct from the farm to your door it is still on of the most popular apples
Don’t think any Apple compares to honey crisp. The king of apples 🍎
inb4 im allergic to all fruits, how does apple taste?
You may be right about the Honeycrisp, but you glossed over the sins of the Red Delicious (as a commodity) and didn’t even mention the Washington State Apple Commission which controlled the marketing of Washington state apple’s (Red Delicious).
It’s true that Red Delicious are tough, but they’re supposed to be. That’s the crispness you mentioned in reference to Honeycrisp. The problem became that the sale of apples depended entirely on “crispness” and shipibility. The Apple Commission had the force of law behind it (Washington State Law). It dictated the way apple’s were sold. So, each year the Commission decided on a Release Date. Washington apple’s (Red Delicious) could not be “sold” each year before the release date.
The release date was not determined by the flavor or sweetness of the Apple. Essentially the only criteria (besides market conditions) was the “crispness” of the apple. To determine crispness the Apple Commission used a simple device that had a pressure gauge and a lever which pushed a tube into test apples. An established benchmark of pressure was determined and each year apples were “released” based on the pressure it took to pierce the skin with the tube and not on the sweetness or flavor.
Apple’s, pears, apricots, bananas and almost all fruit are picked green so they have a “good” shelf life and so they can be shipped long distances.
I lived in Yakima. There were some isolated Red Delicious trees that weren’t harvested and Red Delicious, If allowed to ripen on the tree is the best apple in the world ,but you’ll never get that in the store.
never did like red delicious reds because the skin did not taste delicious now the yellow golden delicious was good and sweet but my favorite is honey crisp
People dont realize how good the classic apple breeds can be because they are stored and shipped and most of us get these semi beat up ones - back in the 70s and 80s the classic apple breeds like granny, pippin and Red delicious were waaay crispier and better over all
I love red delicious.
I would like to find Northern Spy again.
It was the MacIntosh that tick'd me off. They were great if you could pick them off a tree yourself. But, at the grocery store, I hated them--and bought may red and golden delicious instead.
AM I EATING LOW QUALITY HONEY CRISPS??
Meanwhile here in Australia, I grew up on Red delicious and Granny Smith which both,I swear, turned me vegetarian and live on a fruit diet, High in sugar, for over 30 years. As that sugar high clears after discovering diet induced constipation and the benefits of eating the skin and just a little of the inner sugary goodness, I stumbled across apples with new names at my friend's store. Every single one reminds me of The Terrible Granny Smith Apple from my hidden and damaging childhood. On and On this torture is re-administered by truly horrible horrible apples named things like Jazz and other ass tightening names. Then one day I bite a Fuji and my faith in humanity is never restored but I know some one out there can at least create a decent damn apple. Sweet yet firm witha beautiful Honey after taste I Am A Man Transformed!
Now I can go back to sleep. I'm only 49 but I'm exhausted. Looking for that Apple near killed me.
It's been a journey but some consumer had to endure it.
Interesting video, BUT... I am confused, in that, New York State developed Empires and Cortlands decades ago.
There are so many that are better than Red Delicious. Cortlands were around when I was a kid in Washington state. I vaguely remember them as being great and a good pie apple. Gravensteins are small and ugly but fantastic. I think my absolute favorite eating apple is a Jonathon that's hung on the tree past the first frost. Ugly as sin, the skin a bit shriveled, but the flesh still crisp and tart with large sugar pockets....Mmmmmmmm.
Why is there a Japanese clip @4:51 ?
I really want an apple now
Glorious.
I can't be the only one who likes red delicious apples can I?
Yes you can.
Oh wow. I worked in a produce department when the Sweet Tango came out. SOmeone actually came in to double check we had permission to sell them.
Damn. Now I want an apple. 🍏 😋