I like Red Delicious, Fuji and Gala the best. We still have some local orchards, although most of them have become housing developments, but I am ashamed to admit that we haven't gone apple picking in quite some time.

I do enjoy baking a pie once a year or so, and home-made apple sauce beats the heck out of store-bought.

Capo, you are quite correct in that it appears that apples rule the fruit bowl, ESPECIALLY over the bananas, who ripen and go limp quite without much provocation.