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Fine, sure. How bad does something have to taste for it to stop being snobbery? Is there any time you can criticize any food? Taste is subjective at the margins but Red Delicious are famously reviled, and for good reason. Whatever measure you pick for "aspects of foods that humans like" they will fail.

You're allowed to be that one person that them, I like things that nobody else likes too but I'm not stupid enough to serve them to others.



>Is there any time you can criticize any food?

perhaps not during a global food crisis, from a first-world (obese) nation, which is seeing some fruits and vegetables tripling in price


This is the “you should finish your plate, there are children starving in __” argument just stated differently. Red delicious apples suck and if we dropped into a depression where that was my only option that isn’t going to suddenly make them taste good and I’ll complain the whole time eating them.


>Red Delicious are famously reviled, and for good reason

Famously reviled by whom? Could this be selection bias at play? I personally have never met a real-world person who disliked them as singularly as Internet hipsters do. Opinions range from "my fav" to "not my fav".

>You're allowed to be that one person that them

Ah, I've got my work cut out for me*, visiting every single grocery store and buying up their most abundant supply of apples. Surely they cannot be ordering them due to popularity.

* (Red delicious is not even my favourite, just a regular apple).




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