Also stay away from free range chickens & eggs. Caged chickens are in a air filtered environment safe from the bugs & virses that infect chickens out on the range. Also veges that grow natural develop toxins to fit off the disease and bugs to are worse than the washed off bug killers.
Nicely written and makes me remember my youth.
For garden thread consideration.
This was kind of genius and funny.
The last three paragraphs almost mess it up, though.
It seems like she’s in fact involved in just another local food scam in the big apple.
Nice garden read, thank you.
I live among these insufferable foodies.
However, to his credit, my neighbor up the street this summer is growing grafted tomatoes, to avoid the dreadful blight (he learned).
Garden ping to tubebender.
Reminds me of all the flatlanders around here buying early corn in June and marveling over it. It’s what we call cattle corn. Our early corn is ready about now.
I used to have a tape of an old Fred Allan radio show where Titus Moody, the Yankee cheapskate, said that on weekends he’d go to the A&P (Supermarket) and buy dozens of eggs, go out to the front of his farm, and dress up like a rube - put a piece of straw in his mouth and start whittling, next to a sign that said “Farm Fresh Eggs”, and sell them to New York tourists.
When Allen asked him how business was, he said he could only sell 60 eggs an hour — ‘cause there was one born every minute.
That was the late 1940s.
Titus Moody was played by Parker Fennelly, who later became the “Pep’ridge Fahm Remembahs” guy.
Did not know the Jersey people do the same.
Cute article, no surprise. I remember one of the networks had these capsules that would give women smooth skin. They had a kiosk at a mall and would hand out samples. The women, all of them, would take and then swallow-down the capsule - which was filled with chocolate powder...perfectly safe, but useless regarding skin texture.
They’d then tell the women what they just swallowed - in effect, calling them idiots for taking the guy at his word. Most didn’t care, but were bummed that their crappy skin would still still remain crappy.
Years ago, I grew up eating Jersey corn and Jersy tomatoes. Never knew the corn was called “Silver Queen”
A gifted writer and dishonest scam artist (working for the same) scamming dishonest gullible liberals. Where I live in Eastern MA most Central Americans (the predominate culture) would know better, but not their children.
"Fourth of July" tomatoes grown by my Guatemalan neighbor ("Gabriel" and "mi hermano en cristo")
Along with others in small buckets (8-04-19):
Thanks be to God.
That was a very good article. Thanks for posting, N&V.
I grew up in the ‘40-50s. We had a victory garden with fruit trees and lots of vegetables and berries.
I have to say that the plums, peaches and berries right off of the trees and vines were more juicy and tasty than those picked and put in the ice box (no fridge then).
Reminds me of the Wookie’s garden, planted in DC in late April and delivering a ripened bounty only weeks later. The relocate New Yorkers who imagine themselves to be reporters bought that crap fest with gleeful willingness.
You will love this!
We used to buy veggies from a huge stand called Three Guys From Brooklyn.
The veggies were delivered twice a day from farms in Jersey. I have never tasted veggies so good. I dunno why produce grown in Jersey tasted so good, but they really did.
A few things were imported like pears from Medford and Rainier Cherries from Washington, but so many crops were local to NJ.
I miss those delicious veggies!