APPEARANCE Rating: 
Pale greenish yellow skin with bright white flesh – perfect apple shape
AROMA Rating: 
Slightly sweet, slightly grassy, with a weird musty undertone – don’t particularly care for the smell
TEXTURE Rating:
Mushy!
TASTE Rating:
Bland, very light sweetness
OVERALL Overall Rating:
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.
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!
I have always thought Golden Delicious apples are bland. It surprises me that so many websites cite the Golden Delicious as being the best apple to cook with. Its flavour almost totally disappears once its cooked. The best cooking apple is of course the Bramley!
Matt – I haven’t had a Bramley yet. Looking forward to it.
Neat blog! Is your theme custom made or did you download it from somewhere?
A theme like yours with a few simple adjustements would really make my blog jump out.
Please let me know where you got your design. Cheers
Hi Elissa,
Thanks!
The design is custom by Keri Marion at kerimariondesign.com
I didn’t eat apples for 50 years because of the Golden and Red “””delicious””” atrocities. Everything changed after my first Arkansas Black, through numerous cultivars to land at Honeycrisp, my favorite, readily available variety (because Blacks are impossible to find)
Seriously? Keri marion is my sister. Aah, so that’s why Justin sent me this site!
So while we’re here, what do you know about Zanzi apples?
If you have ever eaten this apple off the tree, it is amazing. At the store it is always a mealy gross apple. If you can buy them from a stand try them.