I’ve gone on rants about the general shittiness of Red Delicious apples plenty of times – at least once before here – but allow me to do it again. Those free-sack-lunch-ass apples have never once ...

The Red Delicious apple is “gorgeous and very inviting, but it’s kind of like you think you’re buying a Corvette, and then you get into a Chevette,” says apple grower Mike Beck. (Photo: pinstock / ...

The Red Delicious apple, an easy-to-transport variety that dominated grocery selection for decades, is no longer the most popular variety in the U.S. as the rise of the Gala apple and other fresh ...

If you were to ask us to describe our least favorite apple, we’d say the Red Delicious varietal aren’t so much America’s shittiest fruit subgroup as they are pasty, coarse, semisweet hunks of plywood ...

For some, it’s likely the best news they’ve heard all week: The Red Delicious is no longer America’s most popular apple. For more than 50 years, the Red Delicious has been the most-produced variety of ...

Golden Delicious apples were once highly prized for their sweetness, but you don't see them as much in the stores anymore.

For decades, Red Delicious represented the definition of an of apple. Kids across the nation got them in their lunch bags, and they were ubiquitous on store shelves. But with the explosion in more ...

Here is Rob Hoglund, 61, now an IT analyst in Rancho Mirage, California, but who as a kid lived here. This summer, in Gig Harbor, he had a reunion with some school friends. Remembering the old times, ...

Consider the fate of America's favorite apple. It emerged from an Iowa orchard in 1880 as a round, blushed yellow fruit of surpassing sweetness. But like a figure in a TV makeover show, it was an ...