The red delicious and the yellow delicious apples have been unfairly maligned. for one thing, they are rather early modern apples. Most importantly, thoguh, if you can find them grown and distributed in the same conditions as your favorite local apple, they are good out of hand eating apples. Especially the yellow, which when you can find it tre-ripe and not overfed and overwatered, tastes like flowers and beauty.

I had a yellow delicious tree in my yard for a few years, but no more.