Not just Panamanians -- everybody. A real, tree ripened peach is just about the best thing you can imagine, but unless you live near the source you never experience it. I get so mad at my husband. He is always buying nectorines (a fuzzless derivative of a peach) in the winter. They look gorgeous and taste awful. He's always fooled by his imagination when he sees the blushing skin of the nectorine and thinks that it is going to be juicy and ripe when he cuts into it. ARRrggghh! If either peaches or nectorines are hard to the touch, just leave them in the market. You are sure to be disappointed, no matter how pretty their skins look. The Michigan peaches should be coming in a week, or so. If I were to head to Georgia and South Carolina now, their wonderful peaches would already be gone and the stands closed. You are making me hungry, Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer) !
“A real, tree ripened peach is just about the best thing you can imagine…”
I agree with you 100%.
As much as I love mangos, there is nothing like a ripe peach.
It can’t get more yummy than that.
I can relate to what you are saying.
While we were in Indiana for a 2 month visit, we visited an apple orchard. It was Fall. I remember a luscious apple that was still on a branch. I was not quite 8 years old. It was the first and last apple I have ever eaten and liked.
Apples that arrived to the Canal Zone commissaries were always bruised and even had worms sometimes.
I can relate to what you are saying...not the worm part, but in gneral.
“A real, tree ripened peach is just about the best thing you can imagine.”
That is true. Yummy!!! A good ripe peach is at the top. Mangos are one little step below that.