Here is Rob Hoglund, 61, now an IT analyst in Rancho Mirage, California, but who as a kid lived here. This summer, in Gig Harbor, he had a reunion with some school friends. Remembering the old times, ...

Consider the fate of America's favorite apple. It emerged from an Iowa orchard in 1880 as a round, blushed yellow fruit of surpassing sweetness. But like a figure in a TV makeover show, it was an ...

The Red Delicious apple, an easy-to-transport variety that dominated grocery selection for decades, is no longer the most popular variety in the U.S. as the rise of the Gala apple and other fresh ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apples hanging from a tree - Maria skov/Shutterstock They say one bad apple doesn't spoil the whole bunch, but something has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Red Delicious apple is “gorgeous and very inviting, but it’s kind of like you think you’re buying a Corvette, and then you get ...

For decades, Red Delicious represented the definition of an of apple. Kids across the United States got them in their lunch bags, and they were ubiquitous on store shelves. But with the explosion in ...

Welcome to Actually, a safe space for us to share our deeply-held but likely-unpopular opinions about food and drinks. As children, we’re fed so many lies: that we might grow up to be princesses or ...

We're just a couple of weeks away from a new crop of apples; growers in the Yakima Valley of eastern Washington, whose 175,000 acres of orchards produce some 10% of the nation's apples, are expecting ...

Many associate apples with the image of Red Delicious or Granny Smith apples, but there are well over 7,500 distinct apple cultivars. A group devoted to finding lost apple varieties actually ...

At the supermarket near his home in central Virginia, Tom Burford likes to loiter by the display of Red Delicious. He waits until he spots a store manager. Then he picks up one of the glossy apples ...

I’ve gone on rants about the general shittiness of Red Delicious apples plenty of times – at least once before here – but allow me to do it again. Those free-sack-lunch-ass apples have never once ...