How exactly do they get farm-fresh tomatoes all year long? It can’t be as easy as greenhouses - we do that too. What’s the secret? I don’t buy them outside of the farmer’s market season any longer. Haven’t for years.
If you want apples with flavor, you have to buy them in season from a local farmer's market or travel the next county or two over to buy them from the Amish.
Our grocers won't buy from the Amish due to shelf life issues. When you make shelf life your primary objective, you must necessarily sacrifice flavor. The very properties which give produce their flavors (rich natural fructose and the like) also shorten their shelf life.
This, of course, is the crux of the problem. The French understand and love food as do the Italians. Anglo-Saxons nations don’t seem to have a clue.
Of course, the other reason French women aren’t obese is that they smoke like chimneys.
I have read that before about French food. Tastes so rich and good you eat less from the flavor rather than just eating until you are stuffed. Now I want a strawberry. From the local farm.
I don’t know about Frace, but in Norway the people do much more walking then in the states.
I long ago noticed tha the fruit (particularly strawberries and apples) which are on sale are the varieties which are durable and ship well. Taste is a minor consideration. When we buy packaged strawberries we always wonder how they will taste - like cardboard or like strawberries. Sometimes one gets lucky.
I too was impressed with the variety found in French stores.
What "man" talks like this?
We bought strawberries from the grower, right beside the fields last week. They were wonderful!
Farmers’ markets and locally grown is so much better than from the grocery stores where it comes across country or South America.
“There was a slight reddish flavour”
Ya lost me there, Limey.
Just wait ,you’ll hit a certain age,food starts to loose it’s flavor(sense of taste)you loose your appetite and you’ll naturally thin down.
Mom used to be 140lbs and at 98 yrs ,she weighs about 88lbs.
There is this thing called a map. Please go find one. Now look and see where Canada is. Now look and see where france is.
In your opinion which one has a climate where you have a long growing season and short transportation time for strawberries and which one has a climate where you have a short growing season and long transportation time for strawberries?
If you want flavorful fresh strawberries eat them during the time they are in season in Canada, about 3 weeks. For the other 11 months and one week learn to enjoy frozen, canned or dried. Or move to france.
Thus endith the lesson.
Moonbattery