[Karawebnetwork]

Red Delicious 25

Granny Smith 53

McIntosh 45

Cortland 24

Either I have never had a good apple or there is something off with this list and the reviews. Could it be they are using imported or out of season apples?

This list is pretty much the apples I have access to locally and they are all perceivably better than some of the international variety that are ranked higher on that website.

The comment section for Cortland is savage and honestly I agree with a lot of it.

[Dudical]

Red Delicious was described as "mealy", which sounds like an out of season apple. The science behind long term storage of apples made it really common to have edible apples all year round but when critiquing you've got to take freshness into account.

This site has a comedy bend but with all the interest I'd love to see it embrace a rotten tomatoes kind of style (the critics vs. the masses).

[Blackthorn]

I've had red deliciouses direct from the farmstand and they're mealy. They really are just bad.

[TylerE]

Nothing says delicious like having to put that in the name, right?

Actually powerful people don’t go around saying how powerful and important they are. They don’t need to.

[mark-r]

I've found that to be a universal truism in marketing. If your product is missing some important attribute, put it into the name. The power of suggestion overcomes reality. The Red Delicious apple is the very product that hammered this home for me.

[swasheck]

apparently the red delicious was selectively bred for appearance over taste and texture according to an article (which i cannot find) i read a few years ago (and somehow retained this information).

now the darlings are, apparently, pink lady and honeycrisp, which are both excellent apples.

[batiudrami]

Every golden and red delicious apple I’ve ever had I would describe as “mealy” though. In Australia we don’t get many of these varieties but Pink Lady is my favourite so I’m tentatively happy to back this list in.

[cvwright]

That’s only because you have terrible taste in apples. :)

Seriously though, who rates Braeburn at 73 and Cortland at 24? They’re really not that different if you get them fresh.

It sounds like they found their test Cortlands in a wet bag behind a dumpster.

[LilBytes]

I suspect the author of the website has no time for tart apples, seems there's a bias for sweetness.

[cvwright]

I suspect the author has a sample size of one for some of these varietals. Some of these descriptions are… off.