APPEARANCE 
Pale greenish yellow skin with bright white flesh – perfect apple shape
AROMA 
Slightly sweet, slightly grassy, with a weird musty undertone – don’t particularly care for the smell
TEXTURE
Mushy!
TASTE
Bland, very light sweetness
OVERALL
This is a beautiful apple– very sculptural with perfect skin and a nice contoured shape at the base. I am told it is good for baking and perhaps as a baby’s first apple. But I literally saw a woman carefully peel an organic, farm grown Golden Delicious apple last week, hand it to a baby and have that baby take the most adorable little bite, and then dramatically spit it right out of its mouth, so…we’ll just go with “smart baby” I guess and leave it at that. The Golden Delicious is mushy and bland and pretty much everything I hate about most common grocery store apples.
FRUIT
Apple
VARIETY
Golden Delicious
PEAK
Fall
ORIGIN
West Virginia
GROWN
California
PURCHASED
Grocery Store
NOTES
Apparently this is the quintessential baking apple as well being good for applesauce and apple butter. Must be that super duper mushiness because it certainly isn’t the flavor. It is the official state fruit of West Virginia. Having never been there, I seriously do not think they should advertise this. I am so puzzled by how this apple became so ubiquitous. It’s not just the grocery store versions, I have eaten them right on the farm – right next to that baby – and I too just spit it right out. Dear Grocery Stores, Golden Delicious apples are AWFUL. Stop it. Stop stocking them. If you love babies and want them to eat apples, please just stop. Thank you.
Fruit Maven | Ben Davis Apple // Nov 14, 2009 at 8:36 pm
[...] would be a good one because it is all texture and very little flavor. At least its better than the Golden Delicious but that isn’t saying [...]
MM // Dec 2, 2009 at 3:10 pm
I like Golden Delicious apples but I don’t like Red Delicious ones…goldens have thin skin, and yes, they are mealy and can even be mushy if you keep them a little too long or drop them a little too often, but don’t be too hard on them! For people who hate those tannen-y apples that make their teeth feel funny, the golden is a good option!