Red Delicious - Red, Not Delicious!

Update: 2019-12-10

Description

On this week’s episode of Historically Random we discover the origins of America’s most popular apple, and it’s subsequent decline.

Sources:

The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious - Sarah Yager : The Atlantic

The Red Delicious is an Apple Atrocity. Why are we growing billions of pounds of them each year? - Tove Danovich : newfoodeconomy.org

Red Delicious Apples weren’t always horrible - Katherine Keenan : New England today

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