This article has an interesting part about Pink Ladies; how the apples you buy in the store labeled "Pink Ladies" might be a different cultivar than Cripps Pink which was the previously copyrighted cultivar that originally had the "Pink Lady" name!
It seems like a weird plan, if 1/3 batches are a different variety and I don't like them now I think all pink ladies are bad.
I find Pink Ladies rather bland. IMHO Braeburns are the best of the industrial apple varieties (the modern ones which are tasty, sweet, and unchallenging); Fuji and Gala are somewhere behind, and Pink Lady behind that.
Cox is still the best, though!
I find it disappointing that this is the only mention of Cox in the comments. Can't be bettered as far as my palate is concerned!
My understanding is that it's rare in the USA, and i suspect most commenters here are from the USA. I'm in the UK, where it is a very common apple in season.
I love Cox Orange Pippin..it used to be my favorite apple in the UK..hands down.
We don’t get it here in the States.
Yeah, I'm in the UK. They don't know what they're missing!
They’re good, but maybe too sweet and sour, if you see what i mean? They’ll overpower anything you eat with it (my breakfast is usually bread, apples, cheese, leftover meat). I ended up settling with Fuji - really good taste, but not as strong
Am I the only one that find Pink Lady having a bitter side taste?
Does this mean I have some weird genetic defect?
Maybe it’s the skin? Cripps Pink have quite a thick skin, with a slight bitterness
seconded. Taste just as good or better than HoneyCrisp and cost less :)