I just ate an apple from a guy at work who picked it off his tree on Saturday, and it's so much nicer than any apple I've had recently. It should be prime time apple season now in the UK, but the Coxes and Spartan apples I've had from the supermarket (UK grown) have been so bland and mushy 
Granted, pink ladies, braeburns, Jazz apples are nice and pretty consistent all year round due to them being shipped in from all over the place, but Coxes and other english varieties can't be beaten when they are not mass produced.
I get the impression that supermarkets sacrifice taste for size (coxes aren't normally that big, but they tend to be in the supermarket), colour (normally they are yellow/green, but in the supermarket they are half red
) and shelf life.
I'd rather just have a smaller and uglier but nicer tasting apple thanks Mr Tesco. Actually this applies to all fruit from the supermarket (looking at you strawberries).
/rant over
Granted, pink ladies, braeburns, Jazz apples are nice and pretty consistent all year round due to them being shipped in from all over the place, but Coxes and other english varieties can't be beaten when they are not mass produced.
I get the impression that supermarkets sacrifice taste for size (coxes aren't normally that big, but they tend to be in the supermarket), colour (normally they are yellow/green, but in the supermarket they are half red
) and shelf life.I'd rather just have a smaller and uglier but nicer tasting apple thanks Mr Tesco. Actually this applies to all fruit from the supermarket (looking at you strawberries).
/rant over
