Flavour Rose apple
Posted by yabbitgirl on Mar 26, 2010 · Member since Apr 2006 · 14266 posts
Well all of VW has heard my complaints about crappy, mushy, flavourless apples here in Spain. Well today I was in LIDL for something else and I saw boxes of a half-dozen "Flavour Rose" apples. From Italy. One pale pink cheek, one yellow. Smaller than Pink Lady, which is fine, because those tend to be HUGE for me. Too big to really eat in one sitting. (A Pink Lady can weigh almost a pound). I bought them with some trepidation but they are delicious!! Crisp, juicy (as in get it all over yourself), and full of flavour.
I don't know if they have them there but they are wonderful and I highly recommend them.
I'm always up for a good, small apple. I haven't seen them yet, but I'll keep a look out.
http://www.goodfruit.com/issues.php?article=2206&issue=84
Quality is segmented into three tiers or grades for Pink Lady apples.
Top grade apples are trademarked Pink Lady and must have 40 percent or more coloration
Second-grade apples are trademarked Flavor Rose and must be 30 to 40 percent colored
Third-grade apples with the minimum amount of color, 20 to 40 percent, are sold under the Cripps Pink name
Ooooh, even the name sounds yummy. Thanks for sharing, Yabbit. I've been eating apples all my life, but I'm only just recently venturing into the world outside of of the "delicious" ::cough blech cough:: varieties. I love the pink ladies, but they're usually quite expensive at the grocery store near my home. I like to get a single new or exotic variety apple a week (in addition to my usual purchase of what is on sale) as a treat for myself. :)
I noticed on the packaging the words "Cripps Pink" in tiny, tiny letters when I got them home. Don't care. They're good. And since I get tired of trying to force down a whole huge "normal" Pink Lady, this is good. Funny because the PLs we get here are starting to be tasteless.
NS, the only good apples I can find here are Fuji, Pink Lady, now these Flavour Rose things, and last year we had Ariane, but none this year. Ariane are from France. The last bunch my veg shop got looked fine on the outside but were all brown inside. Hm. Maybe that's why we didn't get any this year.
What I wouldn't give for a Winesap or a Jonathan. Or have they GMOd those?
I am so baffled by the names of the apples here.. They're nothing like what I'm used to. I'm a McIntosh and Macoun girl. I like some nice tartness in my apples, but I'm not a big fan of Granny Smith. They have Granny Smiths here, but then they have all these names I've never heard of, like Elstar and stuff. There are lots of super sweet apples, it seems, which I don't like as much. I want my Macs!