Daniel Worley wrote:
> ... For me, there is almost nothing worse than the either total lack of
> flavor, or the slight pasty, cardboardish taste, of a California avocado
> that was picked green and shipped several thousand miles, held in a
> warehouse, then sold in a local super market. Possibly the trees that
> produce those fruits have been cross-bred to produce fruit that will ship
> well. It certainly has no redeeming flavor.
>
> I chose avocado for the first example because I currently have several
> trees on my little plot of ground here and they produce fruit with at least
> four distinctly different flavors, all of which I happen to like. Before I
> made my first trip to Puerto Rico back in the late 50's I had eaten avocado
> once and didn't like it. I was coerced into trying it here and found what
> I had been missing. Many other fruits and some vegetables suffer the
> same, or similar fate as the avocado. California (and to some extent
> Florida) oranges don't even taste like citrus; no citrus tartness to them.
> I am talking mostly of the ones that are shipped out of state. Those grown
> for local consumption are picked a little later, or are grown on different
> trees. Oranges and grapefruit grown here have great flavor, but I don't
> think they would ever survive shipment off island.
> I suspect that entire generations of Americans have grown up having never
> tasted any tree-ripened fruits of any kind.
> I suspect that entire generations of Americans have grown up having never
> tasted any tree-ripened fruits of any kind.
[Repeated for emphasis.]
> I suspect that entire generations of Americans have grown up having never
> tasted any tree-ripened fruits of any kind. And this is sad when it is so
> easy for a New Yorker to find a number of fruits grown within 100 miles of
> home. Sadder yet is the fact that good, tree ripened citrus from Florida
> and/or California COULD be available in season across the nation. It would
> cost a bit more. OK, maybe a lot more.
>
> But locally grown food, picked at, or near, its peak, will always be
> better tasting, and maybe even a tad better for you, than non-local,
> produced for shipping ability and looks, food.
>
> --Dan in Sunny Puerto Rico--
> dan.worley@mindless.com
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