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Co-worker walks into my office to have me sign something. I'm eating an apple , watching this video, she looks over at the scene where you are going back and forth trying the two and says "are you watching an instructive video on how to eat an apple"...... I of course say yes.
i think that would ruin the texture tho, like grapes are so good because of that snap/pop of when you bite into them but if it were that big it would mostly soft flesh
I've had them on multiple occasions and over the years they've gotten less and less grape-y. When they first hit the shelves, they were very noticeably grape flavored. But I'd buy a pack every year and it's been rapidly getting less and less grape flavored; even the grape scent is diminishing. I don't think it's aging tastebuds or anything since I never went more than a year and half without one, and it's not familiarity because I'm not eating them every month or even season. I'm convinced the people making them are just cutting more corners than they used to.
Anyone watching this lately and interested to try the Cotton Candy Grapes, here's a few tips from someone who used to work in a grocery store that sold them: They are generally found in markets in the summer. There are two main harvests it seems: One in June-ish and one in mid-august. Each store only gets a few boxes each harvest and that's it, so get them when you see them. They will NOT go on sale. Trust me on that one. They will likely be between $3-$5 a lb anywhere you find them, but they're worth the price for the experience. Despite what you'd normally think about grapes, with these ones you actually want to go for the soft ones that are blushed with pink/brown for the best experience. The ones that look kind of like they're going bad are actually the sweetest and taste most like cotton candy. The firmest ones are actually almost flavorless. As a lover of firm grapes, I learned that one the hard way.
I don't know why but we have them regularly around here and sometimes they are even the same price as regular grapes... personally I don't like them and find they are too syrupy lol
Only the ones from The Grapery are worth getting. They're a small farm in CA that only produces a crop from Aug-Sep. This year, 2018, they had a small crop. Anything you find this year is most likely from S. America. They aren't that good, from what I'm told. The Grapery ones are pretty amazing though. Also, the ones from The Grapery never go on sale. They're never the price of regular grapes either.
its important to remember that "organic" and "natural" doesnt always mean healthy. and just because something is artificial does not mean its unhealthy.
I tried this once. It tasted like a normal Apple sprayed with artificial grape flavour lol. The inside didn't taste like anything but Apple. But it had a slight fake grape scent not flavour. I think I paid 10 dollars for 4 of them :(
Just realized this is from years ago, and I was recommended this video back then and didn’t even realize that I’d be a fan in the future. How neat is that?
Man i had some of those long purple grapes. I found them one time at a Walmart marketplace. They were hands down the best/sweetest grapes i have ever had. I found them about a year ago and have not been able to find them since. At least i know what they are called now. I looked up grapple to show my son them. And luckily you had a review. I have watched you since your channel was named weird "fruit" explorer. I love your content because I love fruit and you have the best descriptions of the taste and texture of them. Thank you for your content sir.
I’m binge watching your channel and going back to older episodes here and listening to this intro music it reminds me of the old animated Hobbit films and Flight of Dragons.
I kinda feel like you could soak apple slices in grape juice overnight and get the same effect cuz they still taste like apples mostly. I dunno, not bad but overhyped.
Haha heres one Ive actually tried! had it once as a kid. Tasted like candy artificial grape, we never got it again. Cotton candy grapes on the other hand... Absolutely love em
I once worked in the produce department of a grocery store and one of my co-workers doing the ordering accidently ordered half a pallet of these. He ordered the whole regions supply and they had to send a truck to pick them up and take most of them back
I bought some grapples to try a few years ago. I couldn't taste any grape in them at all. I might try them again if I find a different brand. I've heard about cotton candy grapes, but haven't had the chance to try them yet. I have tried the moon drop grapes. They look similar to witches fingers, but are blunt on the end instead of pointy. Those are really good to me.
When I got my dog and she was still a puppy the top of her head smelled so much like grapes! I had never heard of it before so I thought it was so weird, but apparently it is something that helps the mother to bond with the puppy. It did start to dissapear when she was about 8 months old but some days she still smell a bit like grapes :)
I have a blueberry bush and I describe the flavor of the best berries as "blueberry cotton candy" and now I'm wondering if I have a business opportunity in my hands...
I love buying all the unique fruits from trader joes. I had some Saturn peaches and cherry plums last year that were delicious. Cotton candy grapes have been around a while but I have yet to try them. The cherry plums were my favorite, but I think I've had like 4 or 5 other unique/hybrid fruits from trader joes. This grapple is news to me though, and now having made it through the video and knowing how they make them... I think I'll steer clear of these. This isn't a hybrid, this one is just weird lol.
Hey, I remember getting these once in Arizona when I was a teen! It was around 15 years ago, so I don't remember what they tasted like or whether I liked them or not. I live in Nebraska now and I haven't seen them in ages. I've developed a weird reaction to grapes (idk if it's an allergy or what, but the doctor said to stay away from grapes just to be safe), so I haven't had real grapes in ages either so even if I tried a grapple again, I wouldn't be able to compare it to real grapes.
I worked at Hinnant farms several years ago (vineyard and winery). They grew mostly muscadine and scuppernong grapes, but had maybe 3 acres of a variety called Norton. A very small (half inch diameter) black grape with tough hide that had a slightly sour apple nuance. And they weren't sprayed! The grapes were utilized as a blending grape for winemaking because of the high acidity. Was lucky enough to purchase three bottles of 'just Norton' red wine one year that was an amazing dry red wine. God, I miss North Carolina! 🍇🍷
Having come across some cool grape cultivars - moondrops, "Mystery," and one or two others I don't recall the names of - this past summer/fall at a local market, I was wondering if you have any plans to do more with grapes. There is SO MUCH MORE to them than the standard grocery store three.
I don't know if they usually have a different name or not. They are fairly large, with green tops and red bottoms. They are super crunchy (for grapes) with good, if somewhat mellow, grape flavor. The ones I had had seeds in them.
In NYC you can get Grapples as well as many other exotic fruits at Garden of Eden on 14th Street between 5th Avenue and Union Square. There is a shop in Chelsea Market where you can often find strange fruits too.
When I was a little kid, my far distant cousins told me they used Grape BubbleYum to keep the birds off the grass near the water hazards. They didn't use it anywhere else but I guess it worked perfectly. Grapples are basically the Italian Ice of fruit.
You're right about someone not really noticing the flavoring! I ate these and had no idea it was artificial; I just thought they were apples bred to have a grapey flavor. Guess I should try fully reading packaging! With flavor so mild, I thought it was a stretch to call them "grape flavored". If someone is going to go to the trouble of actually soaking fruit in a flavoring they might as well go all out and make it taste strongly like something else. Seems like a waste of effort; I've had sweeter, more flavorful, more candy-like "natural" apple cultivars.
Slicing and eating may have been a better way to taste. I emphasize the "apple" when saying it. Basically an apple with grape flavor added. The grape flavor is very subtle. I liked it but like you said it is a bit of a novelty. Probable sell well at vacation destinations.
I was actually wondering what you would have made of these and I hadn't seen this video. They were around a lot about 10 years ago here. They didn't last long.
@Weird Explorer Short answer, yes. And I've never heard they were treated to taste that way, just thought that they were bred from hybrids, and accidentally ended up that way. I've had them, and tho I don't really like grapes or apples, I loved these. I'm sad that they aren't a natural fruit, because I had hoped to one day grow a graft. Thanks for the additional grape review. The Witch's Fingers I believe are just Concord grapes, treated with extra gibberelin? I'd need to look them back up.
I ve had cotton grapes twice. The first time from Acme, by Grapery, like Jared has. They tasted very much like cotton candy, Delicious! Second time from a produce stand. They tasted like cotton candy , but not totally, like the first time. I m not sure they were from Grapery, so maybe they're no longer the sole producer
Chris Gordon,really? I go there all the time and never noticed them. The place in Chelsea Market is Manhattan Fruit Storage. Both awesome places to track down fruit thats rare in the usa. :)
Here in Australia one of the major grocery chains were selling green seedless grapes that tasted like cotton candy. Apparently they were a cross breed of green seedless grapes grapes and Lambrusco wine grapes. All I know is that they were god awful, they tasted like they were artificially flavoured.
That's because they were nasty. Way past their prime apples that they tried to sucker people into buying by soaking them in some kind of chemical to give them that fake grape flavor.
oh my gigachu i have seen packs of these apples it was waay back in 1991 at the port orchard safeway it was a new bigger store they had a lot of newer items to be competitive to stock market at the time oh man i miss those days when stores did get neat items to be competitive and now up here in shelton and surrounding areas just no competition at all and no more stock market either i miss that awesome mega store some of the best potato salad ever made was from there but so many fruits and veggies of many varieties thats one reason why i want to have many green houses so i can have a lot of variety of goodies to eat and eb sustainable as well.
How about an apple show. First I would love to have some one with a palate who could confirm that " Delicious Apples" taste dry and woody .Then I would love for someone to try apples like 'Honeycrisp which are a genuine delight.
So something I learned from Nile Red. Methyl anthranilate (sp?) is a component of artificial grape flavoring. The cool part about this is the pure chemical fluoresces under UV light.
I have had cotton candy that taste like Apple I got it at the dollar store.. It was good it tasted more like sweet Apple juice with kind of a caramel undertone. You could always make your own cotton candy too in fact instead of will it ketchup you could also have episodes called will it cotton candy. Cotton candy machines are really quite inexpensive on Amazon 50 to 100$... get the pricier one, it works so much better. Just at fruit juice to sugar an bake it off in the oven at like 170°f. Blitz it in a food processor then run it though the cotton candy machine. Well keep up the good work. Always nice to see another Buffalonian succeed.
NYC is renowned for its healthy food. I know whenever I visit family there, I always experience the "NYC 10." You know, where you lose 10 lbs. eating things like calzones, chicharrones, hot dogs, and other healthy goods popular around the city.
I'm usually not a frozen grape type person; however last summer I tired a sample at my local store. Well after spending $10 on cotton candy grape I figured freezing them would make them last longer. To me the flavor was even better. Give it a try if you get your hand on more cotton candy grape. I have spend the last 2 hours watching your videos, Jared Rydelek Haha You've gained a new subscriber, as well as giving me inspiration to try a few "weird" fruits along the way. Now off to make dinner I go...have a great week!
It’s strange, I ate this in Canada and thought it was pretty potent. But it didn’t taste so much like a grape and was more like other things that are “grape flavored”. I’ve eating plenty of grapes and I would say I feel like the flavoring is stronger in the apple than it is in an actual grape. That being said, I’m not complaining. I enjoyed the added flavor and they were pretty great apples. Unless something artificial is found to be significantly harmful (as in relatively more harmful than what you’d get from other things, like arsenic in certain seeds or Mercury from Tuna), I really have no problem with it. I find a lot of the flak that gets given to artificial additives and GMOs and whatnot is undeserved. People just became less trusting of what the put in their body but since a lot of people became more conscious of that stuff, I don’t see things getting much better for anybody statistically.
@Weird Explorer I used to make hard candy, like candy canes and i would make bags for people with all different colors...but they were all the same flavor. That flavor was cherry, but everyone i gave them to swore they could taste different flavors that matched the different colors. After eating several pieces i would tell them that they were the same flavor but most, not all, would still swear they could taste different flavors. The mind is a tricky thing and when i tried grapples they tasted intensely like grape kool-aid. So unless you got some form a lesser vendor i think me wanting them to taste like grapes made them stronger for me than you who is naturally a skeptic of flavors. Good times!!
I realize this video is old, but have you tried Gumdrop grapes? They are also produced by The Grapery. I love them! Cotton candy grapes are good, but gumdrop grapes are spectacular!
here in California we only get grapples once a year. Iv only tried them like twice and they do taste like grape kool-aid. But its been years and i dont remember what time of year they hit our store shelf's
Cotton candy flavour grapes obviously don't travel well. I tried them once in the UK and they just tasted of ordinary grapes, not a hint of a cotton candy flavour.
its important to remember that just because you cant pronounce something doesnt mean it will hurt you. for example "lab quality deionized dihydrogen monoxide" is just chemistry talk for "purified water" people fear what they dont understand.
My experience with these wasn't bad, more just "meh", honestly I think that the smell does more to influence what you actually taste as you eat the Grapple. I would rather go for an Arkansas Black apple before I went for a package of grapples.. not awful, just "eh"
