Apple stickers
You know those little stickers on the apples? I love them. Whoever invented them was a genius, and I thank him/her profusely.
I like sampling different kinds of apples: one from column A, one from column B, and on and on. I used to get them home and, despite my best efforts to keep them straight, they’d get mixed up. If I liked a particular type, or disliked a particularly type, I would often get confused as to which was which, and that led to more and more sampling next time.
No more—due to the handy dandy apple sticker. But until now, I never noticed the stickers had so much extra information on them:
And here are answers to all the questions about fruit stickers that I never thought to ask.
By the way, the jazz apple is the winner and still champion. It’s been over for years now and we’re still as much in love as ever.
DNA determines our taste buds. I like the jazz apple but for me, the Gala apple, grown in New Zealand are unsurpassed with but one exception.
When I was around 5, on a Sunday drive, I had a perfectly ripe, red delicious apple bought from a roadside stand in the Mass. countryside. Nothing since has ever matched that perfect apple.
Perfectly ripened fruit picked at its peak cannot be even remotely matched by store bought fruit and sadly, America’s soil is terribly depleted of essential minerals. All the ‘artificial’ fertilizer in the world cannot compensate for that deficiency.
Yes, but is it a free market based sticker or a gov’t mandated sticker?
Geoffrey:
A lot apples are grown here in eastern WA, possibly more than in all of MA. I doubt that our soil in the Yakima Valley or Wenatchee or Okanagan areas are depleted of “essential nutrients.” But fresh apples in the fall can’t be beat.
KLSmith:
I don’t have the link, but I recall reading that it’s not mandated by the government.
OM,
I would be delighted to discover that to be so. At some point I hope to be out that way.
neo-neocon: What is your favorite apple for pie?
No, these are not govt mandated. The industry came up with these to provide supply chain info, give consumers info on recipes and such and to give info on variety as well as to state origin
You’ll also see these barcodes and 2d barcodes on other products, typically perishables. Buy a bag of mini bell peppers at Costco and scan the barcode and you’ll get info such as the name of the farm it was harvested at and othernfun pieces of info.
These also can store supply chain info in case of recalls and at info can be given to the fed govt to ensure they get straight to the source of the “bad” product. Let’s go straight to farm A where it was grown and we don’t have to mess with farms B or C. So its not govt mandated but certainly the info can be used to help resolve matters quickly and not tie other businesses down while ey determine the exact pathway of the problem.
Neo:
I first tried a jazz apple in response to something you posted, I think in February, as my daughter was visiting then. She decided she wanted to a blind taste test, so bought a bunch of different apples, sliced them, mixed them up, and put them out for us to sample. We both agreed that the ambrosia variety was the best, with jazz a close second. I think you still pay a premium for jazz apples in the local market.
Speaking of labels, I was friends many years ago with someone who worked in a Guinness brewery. I took a tour and was surprised to learn there is also coding on Guinness labels, as well as most other labels on any kind of glass jar. The code is pretty subtle and unremarkable, for the most part. It consists of little slits into the edge of the top and sides of the label. I think you have to hold the label next to a reader to decode the information, mostly about date of bottling and brewery of origin.
Pink Ladies.
Sweeties.
…I love apples. To eat. Especially crisp and ultra-sweet ones.
Those two are my current fav’s (especially Sweeties, which are sadly kind of rare).
…and I’m running up the stairs as soon as I submit this to grab one from the fridge.
y81:
I haven’t made—or even eaten—apple pie in a long, time, alas.
But I like pies that are both tart and sweet, and not too mushy. In the past I would try to use those kinds of apples rather than what they used to call “baking apples,” which I found too sweet, bland, and mushy.
I especially like the pies at Costco, but I don’t know what kind they use.
I like Jazz, but I also like Envy. Both New Zealand apples that are about a $1/pound more than domestic apples. To me, they’re worth it.
I’ll have to give the Jazz another try. My favorite is the Granny Smith, which has a radically different flavor than any other apple I know of.
Like most Americans, I usually do not eat enough fruits and veggies. Apples are a great way to improve one’s diet. I’ve been eating a lot of them lately, and am starting to appreciate the old adage:
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
“USA” apples in the fall & winter, southern hemisphere (i.e., S. America & New Zealand) apples in the spring & summer has been my rule of thumb.
I like apples crispy then sweet. Mushy apples are anathema. My favorite type now is Honeycrisp, although it is more expensive than any other type I see in the stores. Crisp and sweet, it hits the spot.
Generally, my lunch is a sandwich and a piece of fruit, most often an apple.
I prefer inorganic apples.
My favorite apple is the Jonathan, both for eating out of hand and baking. It is rather on the small side, which means more peeling for a pie. It is a tart, crispy apple, unless one is fooled into getting old, stored apples, mushy or mealy things that might not even be Jonathans. Honeycrisps are okay, but too expensive and too large for me to eat as a snack or with lunch.
Working with Labelling and barcode for many years back, the barcode have a lot of ifo that you could put.
There is very simple barcode, there are many barcode types which give more space to insert more info, more readable &secure also can be special for such industry and son on and so forth.
In recent past years there were new one comes which called PDF barcode these type looks like those barcode you can scan them by iPhone and other devises which contain more if and details.
As for fruits labelling, the barcode printed before and they using pressured air to blow the label to stich on the fruit, sometimes you may see some labels very easy to peel off.
There are many type of labels star from paper ends to plastic, water prove heat prove and some types use with shipment that type use because of the weather changes and sun they used special material that the printing not fading due to weather causes.
The industry its bid and large have many details and make people life very easy to move and trace , one example within airport and luggage labelling