Today's apple is the organic version of my old friend, from the 1990's, the Braeburn. It is a good apple, this one is a good apple. I would place it somewhere in the middle if I were ranking them, sweet, juicy, tart and fairly firm.
I would not be doing this blog today if not for the Braeburn. As I said in my Day 9 review, I was on lunch break at work at the Fox affiliate in Rochester, NY around 1997. I brought an apple for lunch that day, not realizing it would be the best apple I had every eaten. It was such a good apple, sweet, juicy, tart, just the right level of firmness and most importantly, that fragrant, floral quality that I had never experienced in an apple! It was like the apple had been injected with rose water, wow! It was like looking God in the face! My legs buckled, I dropped my chips and they literally fell in slow motion. I screamed, "Oh my God!" and then passed out.
I awoke, face down in a pile of broken chips and dreams to Ted the janitor emptying the trash. I surveyed the room carefully but any evidence of the Braeburn's existence was gone. I grabbed Ted by the leg and pleaded, "have you seen ... an apple?" He said, "no" and pulled away quite rudely. Maybe the whole thing was a dream. I have been chasing that dragon ever since.
Tomorrow, I review Sun Made brand dried Washington apples. Crunch on!
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