Totally OT --Cox's Orange Pippins

[Pinky]

It is always a pleasure on a cold autumn evening to bite into a really good
"coxes".

I have just had one and it was almost like drinking a glass of fresh,
grassy, acidity Mosel wine. All the flavours of the apple went straight
through the roof of my mouth and rapidly permeated into the pleasure
centres of my brain. What a hit!

I had a second one but like all high pleasures it was not to be repeated
tonight.

I look forward to some carefully matured Russets for Christmas.

Sorry about that " aside" but the apple was too good!

--
Trevor A Panther
In South Yorkshire,
England, United Kingdom.
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[Mark Thompson]

> Sorry about that " aside" but the apple was too good!

Heh, I've just got back from the shops with two bags of 'em <smug grin>

 

[Chris Slade]

Mark Thompson wrote:

>> Sorry about that " aside" but the apple was too good!
>
> Heh, I've just got back from the shops with two bags of 'em <smug grin>

Just got back from Aldi with some 'Spartan' apples. Never heard of them
before. I wonder if they're good cycling fuel?
--
Chris

 

[Danny Colyer]

Chris Slade wrote:
> Just got back from Aldi with some 'Spartan' apples. Never heard of them
> before. I wonder if they're good cycling fuel?

They're revolting, don't even begin to compare with Cox's. The wife
likes them, though.

--
Danny Colyer <URL:http://www.colyer.plus.com/danny/>
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"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

 

[Peter Clinch]

Pinky wrote:
> It is always a pleasure on a cold autumn evening to bite into a really good
> "coxes".
>
> I have just had one and it was almost like drinking a glass of fresh,
> grassy, acidity Mosel wine. All the flavours of the apple went straight
> through the roof of my mouth and rapidly permeated into the pleasure
> centres of my brain. What a hit!
>
> I had a second one but like all high pleasures it was not to be repeated
> tonight.
>
> I look forward to some carefully matured Russets for Christmas.

Good to see you realise that though Cox's are very good, they are not
God's Own Apple.

Tesco's have lots of Russets in ATM, rather bizarrely the pre-sealed
bags come in two different designations, the English apple du jour and
the connoisseur selection, apples deem to be the same but the EAdJ are
slightly cheaper per unit...

Remember buying a kilo of Russets at Leicester market when the first of
the season had arrived... and I'd eaten the lot by the time I got home!

Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
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[Peter Clinch]

Danny Colyer wrote:
> Chris Slade wrote:
>> Just got back from Aldi with some 'Spartan' apples. Never heard of them
>> before. I wonder if they're good cycling fuel?
>
> They're revolting, don't even begin to compare with Cox's. The wife
> likes them, though.

Not "revolting" IMHO. They're at the sweet end of apples which don't
work for me nearly as well as the likes of Cox's and (especially)
Russets, but I'd at least give them house space, which is more than
"Golden Delicious" will manage (I suppose "Sickly Yellow-Green
Tasteless" didn't sound too good to the marketing people...)

Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net [email protected] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

 

[Tony Raven]

Peter Clinch wrote on 02/11/2006 08:56 +0100:
> Danny Colyer wrote:
>> Chris Slade wrote:
>>> Just got back from Aldi with some 'Spartan' apples. Never heard of them
>>> before. I wonder if they're good cycling fuel?
>>
>> They're revolting, don't even begin to compare with Cox's. The wife
>> likes them, though.
>
> Not "revolting" IMHO. They're at the sweet end of apples which don't
> work for me nearly as well as the likes of Cox's and (especially)
> Russets, but I'd at least give them house space, which is more than
> "Golden Delicious" will manage (I suppose "Sickly Yellow-Green
> Tasteless" didn't sound too good to the marketing people...)
>

If you want truly revolting try the Standard LeftPondian Apple. Big,
looks fabulous with nice rosy skin and like biting into wet tasteless
cotton wool. Ugh!


--
Tony

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using
his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci

 

[POHB]

Tony Raven wrote:
> If you want truly revolting try the Standard LeftPondian Apple. Big,
> looks fabulous with nice rosy skin and like biting into wet tasteless
> cotton wool. Ugh!

Fat and lacking taste, stereotypical but true.

I had a few apples straight from the trees last week, I'd forgotten
just how crisp and juicy such things could be. No idea what varieties
they were but the taste took me right back to childhood when everyone
in our street had apple trees because the houses had been built on an
ancient orchard.

 

[John Kane]

Tony Raven wrote:
> Peter Clinch wrote on 02/11/2006 08:56 +0100:
> > Danny Colyer wrote:
> >> Chris Slade wrote:
> >>> Just got back from Aldi with some 'Spartan' apples. Never heard of them
> >>> before. I wonder if they're good cycling fuel?
> >>
> >> They're revolting, don't even begin to compare with Cox's. The wife
> >> likes them, though.
> >
> > Not "revolting" IMHO. They're at the sweet end of apples which don't
> > work for me nearly as well as the likes of Cox's and (especially)
> > Russets, but I'd at least give them house space, which is more than
> > "Golden Delicious" will manage (I suppose "Sickly Yellow-Green
> > Tasteless" didn't sound too good to the marketing people...)
> >
>
> If you want truly revolting try the Standard LeftPondian Apple. Big,
> looks fabulous with nice rosy skin and like biting into wet tasteless
> cotton wool. Ugh!


You must mean the famous Macintosh A truely terrible apple (nice
computer) but amazing popular over here.
John Kane, Kingston ON Canada

I rather like Spartans: I don't remember seeing Cox's here.

 

[Chris Slade]

Peter Clinch wrote:

> Not "revolting" IMHO. They're at the sweet end of apples which don't
> work for me nearly as well as the likes of Cox's and (especially)
> Russets, but I'd at least give them house space, which is more than
> "Golden Delicious" will manage (I suppose "Sickly Yellow-Green
> Tasteless" didn't sound too good to the marketing people...)
>
I agree with all of that. The apples are decidedly sweet, remind me of cheap
apple juice. Still, I'm sure they're healthy...
--
Chris

 

[Andy M]

POHB wrote:
>
> I had a few apples straight from the trees last week, I'd forgotten
> just how crisp and juicy such things could be.

Thats the best way. Coxes are a classic case, where the market insists
(or at least used to) that they have to be picked raw and kept in cold
storage til Christmas. Let them ripen on the tree and they are much
nicer. The farm I used worked on, all apple varieties (and plums and
pears) go direct to market, except coxes which got stored in a big
fridge for 8 weeks, and then went to market. Why?

--
AndyM

 

[Sue White]

Andy M <[email protected]> whizzed past me shouting

>kept in cold storage til Christmas. Let them ripen on the tree and they
>are much nicer. The farm I used worked on, all apple varieties (and
>plums and pears) go direct to market, except coxes which got stored in
>a big fridge for 8 weeks, and then went to market. Why?
>

Because your Cox isn't ripe until November at the earliest, and is
liable to loss or damage if left on the tree that late. The least
blemish and the supermarkets won't take them.

The traditional way to deal with Cox was to pick them before the wind
did, and store them in a barn or loft until they were wanted. If you
had a good store they'd keep until spring. There used to be many good
varieties of storing apple, including Bramley cookers - don't buy those
before November.

Nowadays the big packers don't just refrigerate Cox and Bramley, they
also keep them in an inert-gas atmosphere to delay ripening. When the
fruit are wanted they can be ripened quickly with ethylene.
Flavour? People who want flavour don't buy fruit in supermarkets.

There's a farm shop north of Reading that sells an ever-increasing range
of obscure apple varieties. I've got a variety which are the size of
crabapples but crisp and sour-sweet and tasty - I've forgotten the name
but I'll know them again.

--
Sue ]