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October 9, 2013

Ugly Apples:

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It’s apple season right now and most of the apples we’re eating come straight off a tree we’ve found on a quiet country road. (See: Free apples.) I’m not used to eating fruit this damaged looking, but I swear, the uglier the apple, the better it tastes. -- SECRET FORTS

Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 9, 2013 8:32 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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And that one isn't even that ugly. There are uses for apples too ugly to eat. Applesauce! Jelly!

Posted by: picturerock at October 9, 2013 8:51 AM

That's what fruit looks like without chemical sprays. You CANNOT have perfect fruit AND cheap fruit without it.

Four years ago, out here in fly-over country, I bought an old cider press for $100 and rebuilt it. We spend time in the fall picking apples from derelict trees and turning them into cider, hard cider, wine and vinegar. We also buy 20 to 30 bushels of various known varieties from a local Amish man in order to get the right flavor. There nothing like York Imperial apple cider right off the press.

If you want to have a lot of friends in the fall, just buy yourself a cider press. We make a lot of cider for friends and family, too. They bring their apples and kids over, we supply the hardware and everyone lends a hand cleaning, trimming, loading, cranking, pressing and bottling.

Posted by: edaddy at October 9, 2013 9:54 AM

Same with tomatoes. Some of the best looking, bright red tomatoes I've seen tasted like cardboard. Smaller, less perfectly-formed ones were usually much more flavorful.

Posted by: waltj at October 9, 2013 11:50 AM

We get our tomatoes from a 93 yo lady down the road that has been growing them all her life. Chock full of flavor and they don't have those enormous voids inside full of watery seeds, just good solid meat all the way through, and did I say how flavorful they are?

Yes, they look like they fell off the truck, but they cost $3 for a basket of about 6 or 8.

Posted by: ghostsniper at October 9, 2013 12:07 PM

@edaddy---I wish we were neighbors.

Posted by: DHH at October 9, 2013 3:38 PM

Curious.

We have always given away the lions share of our crops especially tomatoes. Friends, neighbors and folks at the local pub. When I select the give-a-ways I always pick the most perfect, clearest skinned, and flawless pieces.

I'm a asshole!

Posted by: John at October 9, 2013 6:41 PM

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