“its like the red “delicious” apple....omg...like cardboard...awful...tasteless...but it was bred so it would be easy to ship....easy to pack...uniform....
but its only uniform to me is its horrible taste.”
Red delicious apples stink. So do store bought tomatoes. One of the few (emphasis on the word few) things I miss from when I lived up north in IL (I’m now in FL) is the Farmer’s Market that carried fresh locally grown produce in the summer and was a spit away from where I lived. Nothing as delicious (unlike the apples of the same name) as a home grown tomato.
When fall came, you could buy wonderful squash, my favorite being Acorn, and buy a beautiful pumpkin from their Pumpkin Patch for Halloween too. And then they would close for the season ... and then the rain, high winds, snow storms, hail, slippery icy roads, and generally frozen tundra would strike for the next 6 months, which is why I now live in Florida.
Everything in life is a trade-off, in my case good tomatoes and apples and deli meats versus 6 months of very often rotten weather. It was no contest. Although I must say around Christmas, only for a week or two, a first snowfall was a glorious thing to behold, until all that snow turned to slush and the morning commute to work on the roads was a total danger to one’s physical and psychological well-being.
Now I’ve got swaying palms, balmy breezes, and warmth all year round, with only an occasional hurricane threat to keep me on my toes. As I stated earlier, life is a series of trade-offs, and I made my trade. Good luck to you all in your own pursuit of trade-offs. But I sure do miss a good tomato (sigh).
Ditto that !
I buy Gala apples for eating out of hand and for fruit salads. They have a nice flavor and texture...actually the best eating type of all the multitude of today's crappy apples. Wrap each tightly in the sticky-type saran and store in your bottom hydrator...and they will stay perfectly for a goodly number of days.
Also, I pay a little more money to purchase organic bananas. I don't throw bananas away any more.....so I actually save a lot of $$$ in the long run.
I only buy two or three of the organics at a time...even when the peel is somewhat green you can eat them right away. They last and last, and are still good even if the peel looks a little mottled after a while...and they're not riddled with mushy black spots when you buy them, like so many regular bananas are. Regular bananas have a very short fruit-bowl life the minute you get them home.
Bon apetit....Leni/MinuteGal