apples: Junami, Pazzaz, Williams pride

[redbird]

These are old notes that I had in Evernote instead of on DW:

Junami apples are a variety I tried in Bellevue (bought in early December, but I didn't note the year). They're not bad. The man at QFC [supermarket] said it was like a Gala or Honeycrisp but not as sweet; a good Gala is juicier and a bit more flavorful. I didn't note where these were from, and it might be worth trying outside Washington, given that the soil or climate here produces more flavorful apples.

Pazzaz apple is "a little tart but had Delicious nature," which I suspect I meant as an unfavorable comment on texture.

Williams pride apples have some flavor and are crisp 8/11/16. That's an early season Massachusetts apple.

I'm transcribing these mostly so I can include them in my index of apple posts, for next year.

Comments

[bibliofile]

Of those three names, I remember only an apple that I thought was named Pizzaz (definitely not just a's). Possibly from Trader Joe's? Or else a new variety seen one winter at a local store. They were okay and certainly edible, but I don't remember their being mealy or styrofoamy the way that Delicious can be.

It would definitely be interesting to eat apples both in and outside Washington. I didn't realize that the soil and climate made that much of a difference to the apples produced. (Perhaps I have been influenced by the Seekrit Heirloom Fruit Lobby, which is prevalent here in Madison, heh.)

[redbird]

It might have been Pizzaz with a z; I can't rule out a transcription error without more work than I want to bother with for an apple I didn't especially like.

I had no idea how much the "same" apple would differ when grown in different places, beyond knowing that different varieties grow better in different climates (adrian_turtle says the apples she sees in the Virginia farmers' market are quite different from what we have here in Massachusetts). For the first months we were living in Washington, I was thinking "I guess they don't have Macintoshes here," and then "why are the local apples so boring?" Then I found some varieties I know in the markets there, and saw that it's not just the varieties: a New Zealand or a New York state Gala is more interesting than a Washington one.