Re: Urban renewal on the west side of the pond...


"Cory Bhreckan" <coryvreckan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Deirdre Sholto Douglas wrote:
Cory Bhreckan wrote:
Deirdre Sholto Douglas wrote:
Adam Whyte-Settlar wrote:

'O-h-M-y-G-o-d!

Veggie food to simply die for.

Gourmet tip - boil the water *before* you pick the sweet corn. Same
goes for the baby peas.

Some people go their whole lives without ever knowing what a tomato is
supposed to taste like.
And strawberries!!! Don't even get me started on the strawberries.

The words of someone who has, clearly, never lived in the
US.

You've found a shop that sells edible tomatoes?

Yes...by simply recognising the fact that slicing tomatoes,
strawberries, melons, etc. are _seasonal_ fruits in the US
and eating them in their season...namely, summer when
you can get them at any farmer's market, farm stand or
community garden stand.

I haven't bought a tomato in years, we grown enough to eat, dry and freeze
(as sauce). I'll put the tomatoes and other veggies that I grow in my back
yard of any farmer's market produce.

Whilst Deirdre certainly has a point about eating out of season fruit (that
might well have spent six weeks in a ships cold store) I have *never* found
a cmmercially produced tomato that came anywhere even *close* to the taste
of the organic 'bred-for-taste' varieties I used to grow. Even fresh from
farm-gate supliers.
Same goes for the strawberries. You can't even *buy* the varieties I grew
from regular seed merchants - it became illegal to sell them and these
varieties disapeared from the catalogue
decades ago and are only now preserved by volunteer growers in the HDRA
organisation which curcumvents the law as it's a kind of members only
'private club' as it were.
So please - don't try to tell ME I don't know about decent organic fruit and
veg. Mine was quite probably the best in the country. Certainly right up
there at least.
I'll say again - some people go their whole lives without ever *knowing*
what a tomato is supposed to taste like - and genuinely think they are
getting the real deal from the farm gate.
Poor fish.


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