Move over, Honeycrisp: New apple to debut at grocery stores
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS today
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — They call it the Cosmic Crisp. It’s not a video game, a superhero or the title of a Grateful Dead song.
It’s a new variety of apple, coming to a grocery store near you Dec. 1
Cosmic Crisp is the first apple ever bred in Washington state, which grows the majority of the United States’ apples. It’s expected to be a game changer.
Already, growers have planted 12 million Cosmic Crisp apple trees, a sign of confidence in the new variety. While only 450,000 40-pound (18-kilogram) boxes will be available for sale this year, that will jump to more than 2 million boxes in 2020 and more than 21 million by 2026.
The apple variety was developed by Washington State University. Washington growers, who paid for the research, will have the exclusive right to sell it for the first 10 years.
https://www.apnews.com/b108210233784b3fb1753d1bf6315a14
A brief history of the Red Delicious apple:
https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/rise-and-fall-once-red-delicious-apples
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/05/03/607384579/the-apple-that-changed-the-world
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But I haven't tried the honeycrisps for that yet. I'm going to have to get some next shopping trip and make a jar. 
They were always my favorite--crisp and tart---but have disappeared over the years 
