Clash With an Apple on a Stick: Candy Versus Caramel
An apple on a stick, covered in some sweet gooey substance, is a delicious treat for fall. The two most common varieties of apples are bright red ice icing or rich buttery caramel, and one is clearly better than the other.
Competition
Caramel apple
The Caramel Apple is a symphony of flavors with tart, crunchy apples that counterbalance the rich, sweet caramel.
Candy apple
A candy apple is an apple covered with a very hard, very bright red sugar shell.
Caramel apple: delicious and perfect!
As mentioned earlier, the caramel apple is a perfectly balanced confection. The hint of malic acid coming from the fruit cuts through the oily confection, making you keep coming back again and again until all that’s left is a sticky stick. The caramel apples are a little sloppy, but the sticky caramel strands add an element of whimsy to the eating process.
Candy Apple: This is Stupid!
The candy apple is a solid, hard-to-eat fruit with an overly hard, artificially colored sugar coating. Cinnamon is sometimes present, but that doesn’t quite help. Candy apples are hard to make, hard to eat and just not worth it. They’re also red, the color of communism, which I’m kind of like a fan of, but – let’s face it – it’s anti-American. In fact, lollipops are lollipops in the world of apples; they are pleasant to look at, they are annoying and loved by older people. I was told that the experience of “breaking hard red shell to soft apple” is a joy, but I was told about it by a man in New England who is suspiciously close to New Jersey, the birthplace of this furious red specimen.
Verdict: caramel apples, yes
Caramel apples are not only easier on the teeth and tastier, but they also inspire culinary creativity and innovation. Is there a Candy Apple Oreo? No. This distinction belongs to the caramel apple . Nobody gives out chocolates on Halloween, right? No, they give out these delights . Basically, the caramel apple is a lovely treat with very good taste, and the lollipop apple is an annoying farce, probably invented by a dentist who needed to get his business up and running.