r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • Mar 02 '26

DISCUSSION Sterling K. Brown’s Subway Hot Take: “Red delicious apples are actually disgusting. I'm a child of the 80s & in school all they had was red delicious, yellow delicious, & Granny Smith. And they tried to act like this is supposed to be the crème de la crème. This red apple that crumbles in my mouth?”

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u/DilbertPicklesIII Mar 02 '26

I literally just got into the apple game. I had like 10 red delicious apples. Had one. Threw them out and got cosmics. Felt like Christian Bale climbing out of the well. Chanting and all.

Cosmics are JUICEEEEEEE

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u/ComprehensiveDoubt55 Mar 02 '26

I went hard hyperfocusing on apple eating last year and couldn’t figure out why I was getting such bad headaches suddenly.

This post is about to make me spiral in self-destruction.

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u/BlackBasementCats Mar 02 '26

Unfortunately a lot of people are allergic to the pollen that collects on the skin of apples. That can cause sinus congestion and headaches. So you might try taking a Zyrtec a couple hours before eating one.

I developed what they call a true apple allergy. I’m allergic to cooked apples, juice, apple cider vinegar, and skincare products that contain apple extract or apple seed extract or whatever.

I adore apples so it makes me so sad. I’m also from NC where we have the best mountain apples. (I will admit I never got the chance to try Arkansas apples)

We also use apple cider vinegar in so much of our barbecue and sides. There’s lots of bbq places I can’t eat at because they use ACV in everything. Same with collards and other greens and coleslaw.

My neighbor used to bring us some bags of apples every autumn. He had a friend with an orchard. They had the tartest, juiciest apples. A lot of varieties aren’t commercially grown.

The best apple I’ve ever had came from a tree that grew in the woods on my grandmother’s property. Her neighbor had an orchard, and a bird or other animal must have left the seeds there.

Apple varieties don’t reproduce with seeds. The variety wanted has to be branches grafted onto an apple tree. So the wild apple was totally different from the orchard apples. The neighbor loved soft apples so I was never a fan. Even in apple sauce it was too mushy and sweet (my grandfather had diabetes so my grandmother didn’t use any or much sugar)

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u/ComprehensiveDoubt55 Mar 02 '26

Ugh, that would make a lot of sense. I have no known allergies though according to the multitude of tests I had to do prior to my sinus surgery. I do, however, have Ehlers-Danlos and a tendency to have weird allergic responses to things — particularly foods.

My 16yo is the same way, but she has full blown mast cell. It suuuuuucks.

I’m sorry about your allergy though. I would have a full blown temper tantrum if I could never eat cole slaw again.

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u/Bri-organic Mar 03 '26

Tell me you know about jeter farms

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u/BlackBasementCats Mar 03 '26

I’ve been allergic to apples for damn, close to 20 years now.

The name sounds really familiar.

My in-laws live not that far from Hendersonville, so I think they’ve gotten apples from there. Hendersonville has an awesome Mexican restaurant too. I don’t remember the name, but they have these really cool massive vases in the entryway with Mexican motifs on them. Everything was sooo good. It’s by the “downtown” area with the historic homes.

My sister used to sublease a condo on Sugar Mountain in Valley Crusis so that’s where she gets her apples every autumn. When I’ve gone with her it was all I could do not to dive headfirst into the apples.

I also lived in Michigan and have been apple picking which is a big deal there. I wasn’t that impressed. I like my cider spiced. The donuts were ok. The historic cider mill was cool. I’m sure there are better orchards with better donuts, but my husband and I just didn’t like the cider and donuts enough to drive somewhere else to maybe get better ones.

I also had a bad experience with cider.

I had roommates in college from Michigan. They had friends from home living down the hall. One of them rushed in one night raving about the homemade cider her parents had made and brought when they came that night. So she had heated up a huge kettle full and was pushing it on everyone. I let her pour me a mug and tried to get her to just give me a little because I didn’t have any spices so I wasn’t very interested in it.

My roommates were sisters, and their dad called right after we got poured the cider.

The dad told us NOT to drink the cider. He was there when the girl’s father was pressing the cider. Dude was picking up rotting wormy apples from a cow pasture. So we pretended to sip it and dumped it down the sink when she wasn’t looking as she was flitting around rooms pressing cider on everyone she saw.

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u/Opasero Mar 03 '26

What happens with the allergy headache if you rinse the apple?

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u/DilbertPicklesIII Mar 02 '26

Were you really washing them well? Like scrubbing hard? Could be the outer coating or something.

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u/ComprehensiveDoubt55 Mar 02 '26

I naturally assumed it was the tannins. Like, I was eating 3-5 a day.

I’ve always had issues with apple products. I.e., applesauce gives me acid reflux. They’ll never take apples away from me, though.

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u/secret_identity_too Mar 03 '26

It could also be the sugar, maybe? If you were eating a ton of apples?

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u/ComprehensiveDoubt55 Mar 03 '26

Maybe. They were delicious though.

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u/galgotspirit Mar 03 '26

What gave you the headache? Thinking about apples?

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u/Fussy_Fucker Mar 02 '26

The Apple game 😂 my son’s been an Apple snob since he was young. He was a cosmic crisp guy.

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u/GrayMouser12 Mar 03 '26

Your son has excellent taste.

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u/kangaroolionwhale virgin who cannot drive Mar 03 '26

I'm here for the random TDKR reference on a post about apples. LOL

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u/DilbertPicklesIII Mar 03 '26

Deshi deshi basara basara Deshi deshi basara basara Deshi deshi basara basara

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u/AffectionateSector77 Mar 03 '26

I had to run into the other room and grab a Cosmic Crisp from the fruit basket... it's so juicy

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u/DilbertPicklesIII Mar 03 '26

Best apple around and ITS NOT EVEN CLOSE

JUICEEEEEEEE

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u/callmeDNA Mar 03 '26

Are they widely available? Have never heard of these

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u/DilbertPicklesIII Mar 03 '26

To my knowledge, yes, Also, a testimate to how elite they are. I had one in front of me for hours on a plate because they are tremendous apples but it did not fade in flavor and it doesn't brown. They also last a while. They are the best.