Best Friggin Apple EVER.. the Ambrosia
 

WOW, you gotta try one if you haven't. It's perfect in every way. Like eating Candy. (Real Candy, not a hooker). I guess it evolved from several other varieties by mistake and perfection was found. I could have one for every meal , every day. My wife picked some up at Walmart by chance. And now I look for them every time but haven't seen them lately. Go try one and get back to me with your thoughts. Really ! You'll thank me as well as be eating something healthy for once. I googled and found a little info:

The Ambrosia apple is a home-grown original – not only is the variety a favourite among consumers, Ambrosias actually originated in British Columbia. In the early 1990s, the Mennell family in BC’s Similkameen Valley discovered a tree in Sally Mennell’s orchard which bore unusual apples.

Their orchard had previously been planted with Red Delicious and Golden Delicious, but they had replanted the area with Jonagold trees. A chance seedling grew up in one of the rows and the Mennells noticed that the fruit pickers that season seemed to really favour the apples on this unique tree. In fact, its fruit was stripped clean! The Mennells tried and loved the apples as well, and decided to try to produce more.

Once the existing tree had matured, they cut and grafted a few branches onto other trees to see if they would still grow the same apples. The procedure was a success, and Ambrosia was born. The Ambrosia apples have the general conical shape of their parents, Reds and Goldens, but their color, texture and taste are distinctly superior and unique.

Fruit of the Gods

Ambrosia apples have a distinct honeyed and slightly perfumed flavour. Aptly named Ambrosia, food of the Gods, they are a delight to look at, touch, bite into and savour. The skin is smooth, with a bright, almost iridescent pink blush over a creamy background. The flesh is tender and juicy, with a very fine, crisp texture. It is a sweet, low-acid apple with a pleasing aroma. When they’re sliced, they do not turn brown as quickly as other varieties, making them ideal for salads, fruit plates, and eating on their own. Because of its natural sweetness, this apple requires less sugar in baking than most other varieties used for cooking.

Honey crisp is probably better.

back in the day, there used to be like hundreds of varieties of apples in the USA alone, apple trees were everywhere (thank you Johnny Appleseed) and they cross pollinated (spelling?). Over the years the mass production of apples has culled the varity down by like, hundreds of flavors.

Yes, I am ripe with trivial knowledge, you're welcome.

I don't see any way that would be possible.

Eat one, and you'll agree.

Like an Ambrosia? Stay away from Hog Farmer.

I'm not sure if I've had an Ambrosia or not... but I gotta say I do love trying out different varieties.

Honeycrisp. It's the tastiest genetic hybrid I've ever devoured. I like them better than Ambrosia. But they're both awesome.

RED DELICIOUS 4 LIFE.

this. Honey crisp and ambrosia are both excellent.

yawn

I'll cut you, fool.

:clap:

A cold crisp Red Delicious is my favorite by far......

Pink Lady fan, y'all.

I know. I consider the apple eating portion of my life to be one of the most important. I'm trying to spice it up a little bit.

GRANNY SMITH 4 RIGHT NOW.

I'll have to try it. I am a huge fan of honeycrisp.

not a fan.

Personally I prefer the ones grown in Columbia proper. The Medellin that's been crossed with the coca plant....****ing addictive!:drool:

I love apples. Fuji Apple is a fav here. I'll check the others though.

This all day long. Only other one that comes close is the Honeycrisp, but it has some kind of subtle underlying taste to it that I find offputting.

ambrosia is 2nd place for me behind the honeycrisp.

Cpers home grown

I had a honey crisp at lunch. Big mother****er and juicy as hell.

:drool:

I like a Honeycrisp, but it's the iceberg lettuce of apples to me.

Three apples for lunch? I love honey crisp apples. How do the big mother****ers and juicy as hell apples compare?

Gotta try an ambrosia, sounds good. Honey crisp is my favorite though. Pink lady is good, but it's not as crisp. They are more like a golden delicious in texture, kind of smooth and not as juicy.

Ambrosia is the favorite at our house. Wife gets cranky when they're not in season.

You must get your pink ladies somewhere else. The ones I get are small Nd so crisp that they sometimes cut my gums when I bite them.

I like honeycrisp for regular eating.

I made some cooked apples from honeycrisp a few weeks ago. They had some kind of stringy material running through them that only appeared upon cooking them down. WTF?

Me too. Honeycrisp is da bomb...

Because of this thread when i went to the grocery store today I looked for this apple.

They had about 20 different varieties, but not this one.

I think Granny Smith are the best for cooking.

bah

How do they compare to oranges?

This mother****er right here knows more about apples than any of you other mother****ers.

I feel the same way about chicks with red hair.

Ok , on the way home I went in and bought 1 Honey crisp. I gotta say it was wonderful. I think the flavor was at 99% the Ambrosia and the texture was good but did not match the Ambrosia. I could live on a Honey crisp thats for sure.

Honeycrisp. Can't say I have had and ambrosia.
Red delicious is anything but delicious.

HC makes damn good apple crisp.
this is the recipe the wife uses.

http://www.rachaelraymag.com/recipes...e/article.html

Just saw this link does not work-hope it will soon.

The best ever?

Apple pears.

I was shopping yesterday & I saw some ambrosia apples. It reminded me of this thread so, even though they were twice as expensive as any of the other apples, I thought I'd give it a shot. (You know me... I'm pretty open-minded about things)

I'm sorry to report that these apples are stupid. They are bland and not delicious at all. I can't imagine that anyone really thinks these are good and I feel like this has all been an elaborate scheme to make me waste money on shitty apples. Well done, assholes. Now I need to go buy some pink lady apples to get that crappy taste out of my mouth.

In closing, I'd like to say **** YOU, ambrosia apple people. **** you right square in the face!

Yeah, I tried an Ambrosia apple on hog farmers advice...not seeing it. Nothing like a clean crisp bit of Red Delicious.

Hogfarmer must have seen Johnny Football chowing down on an ambrosia once. Gave him the sort of apple boner a man just can't shake.

Agree with the Pink Lady and Honeycrisp posts from earlier...Jazz apples are in that top tier too. There aren't any other good apples, and I don't need there to be.

I feel like this was Hogfarmer's idea of a cruel ****ing joke. ****, man. There are some things people just shouldn't joke about. Very uncool.

Did you know that the Johnny Appleseed Memorial is on One Harry Baals Drive?