If you are not eating a juicy, sweet, Honeycrisp apple right this minute, you need to go to local grocer and buy some. They’re uniformly excellent, and they don’t store so you can only get them for about a month.
You make them sound pretty good. Thanks for the heads-up. I’ll watch for them.
A message from your Local Apple Advisory Board.
Apples… the cobblestones on your road to long life.
I like french golden delicious,green hard and very juicey
RORY
While we are on the subject of apples, I am waiting to try this one.
I did not know that the Honeycrisp was also a due to MN breeders.
See, now you’re gettin’ all technical on me. 
Is that the same as road apples? 
djm
We have two young honeycrisp trees in our yard. They haven’t produced yet. drool drool
When my dad bought the property that he eventually built our house on, the very FIRST thing he did was plant 4 apple trees - one McIntosh, one Golden Delicious and two Transparent (what we called cooking apples). All of these were full sized trees, not dwarf varieties. That was in 1955. I just drove past that house last week, and one of the Transparent trees is still standing! Which is really long for a full size tree.
You can’t find Transparent apples anymore, but I talked with an orchard person and he said that Lodi is a pretty close comparison. But I’ve not found those for sale. The Transparents were hard, green (if you left them on the tree they might get just a slight tinge of pink on them) and very, very tart. Our dachshund would eat them continuously and leave the cores all around the house.
I love hard, green, tart apples. I hate shiny, fake tasting or mushy apples.
Shhhhh!
There was an old apple tree (long dead now, sad to say) behind the house my dad was born in (in the mountains of western NC). I don’t know what kind of apples they were. They usually had a good, but not exceptional, flavor. However, they had a unique property: if the apples got hit with a hard frost while they were still on the tree, their flavor was transformed into something that tasted like a combination of apples and cherries. Incredibly delicious.
There is a traditional hard cider in this country also produced by freezing, isn’t there?
I’d imagine it’s much the same thing.
The freeze does things to the sugars.
We are so blessed to be in a place where there are apples and we can afford them.
at publix, which is a huge chain in florida, they have these apples that have a grape taste to them, they are called graples they are 6 bucks for four of them. but they taste real good. has anyone heard of seen them?
Around here (in apple country) we can get them fresh off the tree. They are by far one of the best apples I’ve ever eaten.
They had them in Kroger when we lived in Ohio. I never did buy any…I couldn’t get past the aspect that while they looked like an apple, they smelled like grapes 
I have a tree full, still ripening. Late this year. I already picked a bushel of not-quite-ripe ones because they came off the stem and the tree looked like it was going to fall over… Still at least two more bushels to go. Many will fall. The deer are living in the back yard now, day and night, eating what does fall. My neighbors pit bull eats every apple that falls on their side (the sunny “good” side" actually). I don’t wanna know what thats doing to her insides…
I used to have a recording of Gene Autry (the Singin’ Cowboy, dontcha know) singing about Johnny Appleseed. You just can’t find stuff like this on the internet:
Down in the meadow
There’s an old apple tree
An old apple tree
As pretty as can be
Granny once told me
Many years ago
That she saw it planted
And she saw it grow
Down in the meadow by the Ohio
Down in the meadow by the ohio
djm