Red Delicious - Red, Not Delicious!
Historically Random Podcast
English - December 10, 2019 23:00 - 17 minutes - 11.7 MBEducation Comedy history random fun historically historical educational new Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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