Australian apple growers get the pip over new British apples that are pink now in all but name A British apple producer creating a homegrown rival to Australia's Pink Lady variety was forced to change the name after a legal challenge The Reveile apple was called the Flanders Pink until the Australian owners of the Pink Lady objected When celebrity chef Rick Stein urged people to buy more varied British apples, he singled out the Australian grown Pink Lady for having “little to them”. But when a top British producer developed its own pink-skinned apple to be a homegrown rival to the Pink Lady it encountered fierce legal resistance, it has emerged.