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Skriven 2014-08-03 20:42:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DALE SHIPP
Ärende: Re: fruity old 713
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-=> Quoting Dale Shipp to Nancy Backus on 08-02-14  00:17 <=-

 NB>> Still, the sweetest, tastiest seckle pears I've ever had were drops
 NB>> from an abandoned, maybe wild, tree in the field between our backyard
 NB>> in Willow Grove and the parking lot of the church behind us... They
 NB>> weren't much to look at, being misshapen and often wormy, but they
 NB>> were delicious... what I found in the supermarket subsequently were
 NB>> not nearly so nice...

 DS> Back when I was working full time and carried a lunch, I'd usually
 DS> have two or three pieces of fruit.  Seckle pears in season were a
 DS> favorite, as were bosc pears.  The former were sweet, the latter
 DS> flavorful and crisp.  These days I don't eat nearly as much fruit and
 DS> the few times I have gotten pears at the supermarket, I have been very
 DS> disappointed. 

I've occasionally been able to find halfway decent pears at the
supermarket, but it's not easy... there's a tagline somewhere that says
that pears are perfect for 10 minutes of their life... not all that far
removed from reality...  :)

 DS> As to berries, we will sometimes buy a container of raspberries at the
 DS> store (usually BJs).  We enjoy them.  There is a pick-it-yourself farm
 DS> about 20 minutes from here.  They have a number of fruits which ripen
 DS> at various times of the year.  It has been decades since we went there,
 DS> but remember them fondly.  They had two types of raspberries -- red and
 DS> black growing on wire lattice work.  Neither of them were like the
 DS> raspberries we get from the store.  They were longer.  Because of the
 DS> way the bushes were trained on the wire lattice, they were very easy
 DS> to just walk down the row and pick pounds worth.  Of course, you ate as
 DS> you picked!  The price per pound was comperable to the price for a 2-4
 DS> ounce container in the supermarket for the little short raspberries.
 DS> The farm also had blueberries -- equally easy to pick. You just put
 DS> your hand on a stem and raked along to the end over your bucket.

Pick-it-yourself farms aren't exactly wild berries, of course... ;) 
They are carefully cultivated... and can use the varieties that don't
ship well, since there isn't any shipping necessary... so one should be
able to get really good berries there...  :)  Years ago, I used to go
out and get the u-pick strawberries locally... they were always so much
better than in the stores.  
  
ttyl           neb

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