That's right $4. I am sure you have figured that I must be talking about the infamous Honeycrisp.
You're right, the Honeycrisp. The Organic Honeycrisp. It's full of more flavor than your mouth can handle.
Just saying it makes my mouth water....well, it used to anyway...we'll get to that.
So, I am at Whole Foods the other night. Shopping at Whole Foods makes me feel really cool. Seriously, I feel like I am surrounded by cool people. I also, feel a little out of place. It's like I am the nerd who finally got invited to the cool people party and I am so excited I want to jump out of skin, but I am trying act cool without making it look like I'm trying to act cool and just am cool, when I'm not.
Did you get that?
Anyway, so I walk over to the apples. Lately, I have been getting the Pink Ladies and they have yet to let me down, plus they are smaller and cheaper than the Honeycrisps, but this particular night the Honeycrisp called my name.
I tried to say no. The conversation I had with myself went something like this:
SELF: Oh, Honeycrisps! I think I'll get those this time" Proceed to load my bag.
other self: What the?? $3.99 for one apple! You are out of your mind. (and no it wasn't $3.99 a pound, it was $3.99 each. I triple-checked)
SELF: Well, I guess I'll just get 2 then. I put them in my buggy. It was the cool people, slim, double decker buggy.
other self: You are NOT spending $8 on TWO apples! That is ridiculous! Who does that?
SELF: ...but I really love Honeycrisps.
other self: NO, put them back!
SELF: I start to put them back and then I decide...I want to keep one...(said like Phoebe on that episode where she births the triplets) So, I kept just the one, very large, $3.99 organic honeycrisp apple. I felt a little guilty, but not too bad. Then, I proceeded to get several of my lovely pink ladies at $2.99 a pound.
Fast forward.
Today I got out my beautiful honeycrisp and I washed it and got the apple corer thingy that you smash over your apples and you get instant slices.
This didn't go so well. I didn't get it perfectly straight and the apple was really too big to fit anyway so it got stuck halfway. Then, I tried wiggling it out. I couldn't just push it the other direction because I might have cut my fingers, which has happened before. I got frustrated and took a break.
I came back later. I worked and worked until I got that thing out and then I cut it up the old-fashioned way with a knife.
I was ready to take my first bite of the luscious, honeycrisp apple.
Lousy.
It tasted watered down. It was like getting watered down apple juice. I wanted to return it to the store. All that for nothing. Had I not paid $4 or it I would have chunked it.
I ate the whole thing. There will be no more Honeycrisps for me.
You're right, the Honeycrisp. The Organic Honeycrisp. It's full of more flavor than your mouth can handle.
Just saying it makes my mouth water....well, it used to anyway...we'll get to that.
So, I am at Whole Foods the other night. Shopping at Whole Foods makes me feel really cool. Seriously, I feel like I am surrounded by cool people. I also, feel a little out of place. It's like I am the nerd who finally got invited to the cool people party and I am so excited I want to jump out of skin, but I am trying act cool without making it look like I'm trying to act cool and just am cool, when I'm not.
Did you get that?
Anyway, so I walk over to the apples. Lately, I have been getting the Pink Ladies and they have yet to let me down, plus they are smaller and cheaper than the Honeycrisps, but this particular night the Honeycrisp called my name.
I tried to say no. The conversation I had with myself went something like this:
SELF: Oh, Honeycrisps! I think I'll get those this time" Proceed to load my bag.
other self: What the?? $3.99 for one apple! You are out of your mind. (and no it wasn't $3.99 a pound, it was $3.99 each. I triple-checked)
SELF: Well, I guess I'll just get 2 then. I put them in my buggy. It was the cool people, slim, double decker buggy.
other self: You are NOT spending $8 on TWO apples! That is ridiculous! Who does that?
SELF: ...but I really love Honeycrisps.
other self: NO, put them back!
SELF: I start to put them back and then I decide...I want to keep one...(said like Phoebe on that episode where she births the triplets) So, I kept just the one, very large, $3.99 organic honeycrisp apple. I felt a little guilty, but not too bad. Then, I proceeded to get several of my lovely pink ladies at $2.99 a pound.
Fast forward.
Today I got out my beautiful honeycrisp and I washed it and got the apple corer thingy that you smash over your apples and you get instant slices.
This didn't go so well. I didn't get it perfectly straight and the apple was really too big to fit anyway so it got stuck halfway. Then, I tried wiggling it out. I couldn't just push it the other direction because I might have cut my fingers, which has happened before. I got frustrated and took a break.
I came back later. I worked and worked until I got that thing out and then I cut it up the old-fashioned way with a knife.
I was ready to take my first bite of the luscious, honeycrisp apple.
Lousy.
It tasted watered down. It was like getting watered down apple juice. I wanted to return it to the store. All that for nothing. Had I not paid $4 or it I would have chunked it.
I ate the whole thing. There will be no more Honeycrisps for me.
7 comments:
I will remember to pass on the honeycrisps. I wish it weren't so expensive to buy organic!
Oh, that sucks to get a bad one. Never have. I bought the "honey babies" in a bag last year and they were great. Levi loves the Pink Lady apples too. The Washington Organic Pink Ladies are our favorite.
I would have put it in a ziplock bag and taken it back. My dad does that all the time and it works.
Dang...I would have eaten it too (because of the price), then I would have been bitter about it (pun intended).
I think those are made up here at the U of Minnesota. When we went to the apple orchard they had some there not growing on those trees of course. But a box of them for $10. They are the best apples!!!
I only eat green apples. Reds of any kind just don't do it for me. I bet the half of yourself that told you not to get the apple was kickin th as* of the other half that bought it once you tasted it's lousy-ness!
Eric is obsessed with those honeycrisps. To me, it is a good, but overprice option that I try to pass on.
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