Red delicious apples are actually disgusting. Ft. Sterling K. Brown
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Summary
Red Delicious apples are disgusting, mealy, and false advertising according to a rider who grew up in the '80s when school lunches offered little else. Kareem agrees. The conversation quickly pivots to apple superiority, with both declaring Honeycrisp the undisputed king. They bond over its crisp, tart perfection and how it's the apple Red Delicious should've been. Then things get weird: Kareem reveals he eats apple cores like a horse to avoid leftovers, and both admit to eating kiwi skin, which horrifies a bystander they poll on the train.
Full Transcript
So, what's your take? Red delicious apples are actually disgusting.
100% agree. They are—they're not delicious.
Listen to me. I'm a child of the '80s and in school all they had was Red Delicious, Yellow Delicious, and like 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. It's mealy. It's gross. It's false advertising. And I didn't appreciate it.
That's 'cause the cells in the apple are too small.
Is that what it is?
Yeah. They're not juicy.
They—they're not juicy.
They don't have juicy cells. Like, for example, the best apple, which is Honeycrisp—
As you know.
Shake a hand.
Shake hand.
Yes, you're with me, dude. The Honeycrisp. All apples should just bow down. Yes.
There's Pink Ladies. There's Galas. There's like Envys, et cetera. But when it comes to that crisp, delicious tartness, that is the Honeycrisp. Bow down, everybody.
Honeycrisp is—is—is king of the apple. I am now found the apple of my dreams.
The apple of my eye. Some might say.
Look at you.
Some might say.
Now that I found the Honeycrisp or whatnot, I understand why it keeps a doctor away. Like, it gives me energy. It's delicious. Like, what the Red Delicious was supposed to be.
When you eat your apple, do you—um—do you eat the core of—
Do you eat the core?
I started doing it and it's changed my life. 'Cause the worst thing about eating an apple is you have a leftover.
Do you eat the bottom, too?
I eat the whole—I'm like a horse.
Do you do that with oranges or bananas or anything?
No. No. I eat the skin on the kiwi.
I eat the skin on the kiwi, too.
Yeah, you don't have to peel it. But other people think that eating the skin on the kiwi is disgusting. Look, this guy's—do you eat the skin?
I didn't know that you could eat the skin.