The most disappointing apple I’ve ever had was an Arkansas black (or might’ve been Alabama black). Cosmetically it’s a gorgeous apple. Nice and round and a deep shade a red, like what you’d expect to see used as a prop in a Snow White production. But when you bite into it it’s a sandy, mealy disgrace.

Nice to see that Kanzi is ranked so highly. It is the best available apple in german stores.

Best apple in current meta is the SweeTango but I'm never changing from my of Red Delicious main

https://applerankings.com/sweetango-apple-review/

I've made a few recipes from the late 1700s, and they are mostly garbage loaded up with cloves. Cloves and nutmeg were a money flex back then, so many "fancy" things usually had them included. Like a mince and suet pie... Ugh.

These fuckers rate pink lady a 90 but give granny smith a 57 and lemonade apples a 63? Lost their fucking minds; pink lady are just decent and are only saved by their price point. Can't even compete with modern hit-or-miss honeycrisp. No way in fuck are they the third-best apple variety.

Yeah, no shit lemonade apples don't taste like you're drinking lemonade. That's a problem for like the first one you eat if you're really susceptible to marketing, after which you can just enjoy them for what they are: a solidly above-average apple with a unique background lemony flavor that are fun to mix in with other apples.

The granny smith, meanwhile, is a fantastic pie apple and a great sour apple, and most of the review is spent whining endlessly about slightly thick skin (literally good for you, arguably one of an apple's few advantages health-wise over other fruits) and dense flesh. This rating in particular is deranged.

Edit: Holy shit, they rated pink lady a 3.5/5 on tartness. In what universe?? In. What. Fucking. Universe. It's got practically zero tartness.

Also, complete double standards. Granny smith gets basically its entire review dedicated to denigrating dense flesh and thick skin, but pink lady with its thick skin and dense flesh is called "dense enough to hammer a nail" by its review, and yet these two factors are only treated as mediocre on the bar graph whereas granny smith got a fat fucking 0 for both. What a hypocritical load of shit.

Got curious. Opened the apple ranking. Checked Granny Smith. Closed the apple ranking.

Utterly useless.

I don't trust this person's palate.

(my favorite are jonagold)

If an apple makes it to the store shelf, it's a good apple. I eat whichever one is cheapest. At the moment where I shop, that's Gala. But, I also eat Red delicious and Granny Smith. I'm not paying two or three times as much for an apple that's different. Different isn't better, it's just different. Higher price doesn't mean better product, just better marketing, and maybe "new!", which is just different again.

The fact that rankings of food are so contested and almost no one agrees, is proof positive that I'm right, here. One isn't better than the other, just different. No one is wrong for liking what they like. Judging another's taste harshly, especially in food is silly and wrong. But, also in music, and clothing, and any other aesthetic appeal.

(I know I can't say "an apple is an apple and all apples are good" because of how apples are cultivated. But, if a variety has passed the taste test with growers to the point that they get produced in mass quantities, then it's a good apple.)

I have never witnessed so much spite in a single review and I’m so here for it

It's at 37 now.

No review for Topaz. Failure of a website smh

I'm too lazy to check the site but, I'm certain snapdragon apples are rated pretty highly. I love those apples.

Lucy Glo my beloved is ranked quite well on the site. Used to bike to Pike Place every other weekend to grab some, always worth braving the crowds over. I miss them and Ranier cherries