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They've ranked Granny Smith as "Not worth eating" so right off the bat I can tell you the rating system is junk.

It loses the most points on its "density." Can't say I've ever eaten a granny smith and thought "I enjoy this taste, but I sure wish I could change the density."

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It's just like any kind of snobbery. If you want to be a connoisseur, it's practically obligatory to detest all the popular options. Because you (i.e. this website) are the expert and the commoners must be tasteless and wrong!

What do you mean, the most popular options are at the top. Honeycrisp, Envy, and Pink Lady are "the good apples you can find at major grocery stores."

I love the sourness and the texture. Too many popular apples are just "mealy" texture. I've tried some of the other tart or sour apples and they are just not as good.

I sure do love me some Granny Smith apples, but probably because I grew up with them.

Taste is subjective. Any ranking system for taste is just popularity with extra steps.

Matters of taste are subjective, but subjective does not mean "all in your mind." There is such a thing as good music, good conversation, etc. There are no objective tests, but that's not the same as non existent.

Good tastes exists. OP just has bad taste (in apples).

> OP just has bad taste (in apples).

For someone who understands subjectivity, this is an awfully objective statement :)

I think this attempts to rank apples based on how people would rank them on average. I think it's good for that. Not a lot of people like Granny Smith apples. Maybe I would not say it is not worth eating, but I wouldn't suggest it unless you wanted something different?

They have Fuji below Gala. I'm surprised you made it that far.

Funny enough I vastly prefer Gala to Fuji.

And my girlfriend swears by Macintosh apples.

I was waiting to see this comment. These two are very popular in US markets but are world's apart in the opposite direction. Gala are straight mush. TBF they do caveat: "You MUST buy Gala’s that are grown where it is currently Autumn... for an off-season Gala may be nothing more than a six-month old, previously frozen, grain silo in a fruit jacket." Which is 75% of the time...

Agreed. Taste is very personal, and to me Granny Smith are still my all time favorite apple. Most other apples are too sweet for me.

Granny Smith is a trash tier Apple. The skin is inedible and it is absurdly sour. It's only edible if you peel the skin, cut it up, ...and bake it in something else. Alternatively peel the skin, and dip it into something such as peanut butter. By itself, it's trash tier.

I like my apples sour. But then my favorite fruit is lemon so I might be unusual.

I don't like them by themselves, but I love them with other food. For example, with a nice nutty cheese and maybe some fig jam. The sourness can be perfect with a sweet counterpart.

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