I like the fuji, as far as the standard available apples on the east coast go. For awhile Whole Foods had an apple the called the Mountaineer Apple, it was smaller and flatter, kinda lumpy, looked and tasted earthy, really robust and savory. I very much enjoyed those. When Whole Foods no longer had them I could not find any "mountaineer" apple in my apple research. Unfortunate to have lost such a specimen.