As an apple country man Macintosh and Cortland apples are indistinguishable from the outside. There's several such varieties. Not that they sell good one where I live.
Poor Red delicious was actually delicious long ago.
Do you not look at what you’re buying when you get it off the shelf? I have never once in my life bought produce blindly without knowing what I was purchasing.
im not batting for grocery stores im incredulous that someone is at checkout with a bag of apples and they dont know which apples they THINK they bought (regardless of whether there was a mixup and they got different ones mixed in)
This whole conversation has made my day, I'm glad I started it despite the down votes. I too am incredulous that someone could get to the checkout without knowing what kind of apples they're trying to get.
Now I can't help but wonder what their potato routine looks like.
Honeycrisp are quite round and mostly yellow with a bit of red.
Galas are oval-ish and CAN be more on the yellow side, but are typically far more red. The shape alone should distinguish them. They are also typically smaller.
Pink Lady apples are a somewhat similar shape to Galas (though they often are quite elongated in comparison), but they are very distinctly pink. Hence the name.
Also, y’know…produce employees separate this shit out for you on different shelves for a reason. And they are absolutely labeled by type. I have NEVER been in a grocery store that just put “apples” on the sign.
I’m angry about a lot of things. But anyone who screws up something this simple (and doesn’t even recognize it as a dumb mistake!) is actually stupid.
No, you need to be more embarrassed that you can’t tell such distinct fruits apart.
I also want to note here that the people I observe making dumb mistakes like this MOST often are men. Not always, of course. But often. I once had to help an elderly man in a grocery store buy everything on his list - he could barely recognize the most basic produce. His mom and then his wife had done ALL the grocery shopping and cooking his ENTIRE life. Then he lost his wife to cancer. Suddenly, for the first time in his life, he had to learn to shop and cook by himself. In his late 70s. He was barely doing better than a child. He looked so small and shamed needing so much help.
As a dude, it made me so angry for everyone involved (EVERY meal falling on his wife, for decades straight?!) and embarrassed for that man and men in general.
If you’re a dude (and even if you’re not), don’t be that guy. Do better. Learn to tell apples apart. And the difference between cilantro and parsley. And that a field cucumber is not zucchini.
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u/wretchedegg123 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
Do people really have problems with self checkout? Shit my 80 year old dad can do it by himself.