If we put enough effort into it, it's possible to have a strong opinion about just about anything. All we need is some passion, and a way with words. It's easier with things like food, because taste is such a fundamental sensation, and all of us have our favorite things that we like to eat. There are 7,500 varieties of apple out there in the world, so it was about time somebody went about ranking them all. They're a very popular fruit, and we need to sort the good ones from the garbage. Enter applerankings.com, which a certain part of Twitter has just found out about. They are harsh on some long held favorites, but the reviews definitely come from the heart. They stirred the passions of people in this thread, for sure. Perhaps it is about time more of us apple eaters started being snobbish about it.
