Why don't our shops sell more English apples?

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The English summer has come to an end (yes that was it!), and it is autumn again.  apple trees everywhere are groaning under the weight of countless native varieties of delicious, ripe fruit all out there just ready for picking

Okay, this might be so, but why are Tesco stores and all the other supermarkets for that matter full of New Zealand Braeburn and Royal Gala, French Golden Delicious, Australian Pink Lady, American Empire and Spartan and Dutch Elstar.

No English Apples - Has our taste for foreign fruit become so deep rooted

But what about English apples?  Has our taste for foreign fruit become so deep rooted that we are unable to see that low hanging fruit on our local the trees?

I think it is such a shame that we don't see more produce from our local orchards.  I know many of our lovely English apples are not considered commercially viable by corporate monsters such as Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury; however I must say that I have noticed that they occasionally sell a mere handful of native varieties of our apples - when in season of course!

So where are the Discoveries, the Cox's, Worcester Pearmains and Laxtons?  We have a wonderful selection of great tasting apples grown right here in this country, surely it makes good economic sense to stand behind our home grown produce?

By: Pazza

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True Brit

I's about time supermarkets stopped selling brightly cotoured foreign apples that are tasteless, and reverted to British apples like the wonderful Cox's orange pippin and a James Grieves both of these apples are streets ahead of the foreign rubbish.

14/02 True Brit

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Pippin Fan

Very sad to see that I haven't been able to get any Cox Pippin apples so far this year (2023).

16/12 Pippin Fan

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Richie

We have not got used to imported apples, we do not have a choice. Talk about global warming its a joke, also if food shortage imports will stop then where do we go, should be producing all our food not been dictated to by super markets

08/11 Richie

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Memum

Last week tesco only had one variety of british apples for sale, with most others coming from south africa or new zealand. Today at a different branch of tesco they had run out of the one veriety of British apples that they sold!

06/10 Memum

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Pigtails

I quite agree with you having just partaken of a French Royal Gala apple that was like eating a raw potato which were delivered with my Tesco shop yesterday. Maybe if I ask for British apples I might get some. Who knows!

10/08/23 Pigtails

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Maggie

Exactly we have the best apples, but i find it extremely difficult to buy our own homegrown apples especially worcester pearmains

11/06/22 Maggie

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Julia

I have been to all the large supermarkets and none sell English apples or pears. I have also looked at the farm shops and not many have English. I try to buy English where possible. This really makes me angry as we have lovely fruit in this country.

10/07/21 Julia

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Mau

Not one British apple in Waitrose. All
Imported from South America , Spain , Italy , France and New Zealand. For goodness sake !! Mad mad mad. And another big gripe. ALL wrapped in plastic. Gggggrrrrrr

21/06/21 Mau

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boblet42

Russets. Cox's Pippins, Granny Smiths. Need I say more?

29/03/21 boblet42

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ReggieRon

Couldn’t agree more with all the comments. We grow so many tasty apples but never see them. I refuse to by the expensive, tasteless foreign imports.

19/03/21 ReggieRon

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Lee

When/Where are our English Apples in our shops, especially RUSSETS?

27/10/20 Lee

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Gilli

This is so true, I rarely find any British apples at all, both in farm shops and supermarkets. The imported fruits just don't compare to our homegrown produce. They are so small and tasteless. Shops and customers should support our own farms.

21/10/20 Gilli

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Sheila y

I quite agree I went into my local co-op today lots of Apple's from Chile and New Zealand, only one English variety. Now supermarkets are supposedly less fussy about the size and shape of fruit and veg, surely mixed bags of British apples could be produced. We have to start asking for and buying British produce to keep people in work and support our economy.

19/08/20 Sheila y

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Chris

I refuse to buy foreign apples

04/07/20 Chris

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Syl

I only like English apples so I get really frustrated having to wait for cox's apples to
come into being at the latter end of the year..Please can we have more English apples ..

13/04/20 Syl

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