This is another pet peeve of mine. I live in the middle of Fruit Land USA, but do you think I can find any locally grown fruit that is ripe. Nectarines, peaches and apricots look ripe, but I haven’t found any yet that is ripe. Why can’t they let it get ripe before they pick it. People say, just let it set a day or two and it will ripen. It taint so. It will get softer, but not riper. Sometimes the pit will not even come out without major surgery. I would think they would sell a lot more fruit if people were satisfied with it. I refuse to keep wasting money on fruit that ends up in garbage. It’s like trying to pick the winning ticket. It’s the same way with cantaloupe. I guess there is an art to picking out melons that are just right. Sometimes they are delicious and other times hard as a rock. I sure don’t have a knack for choosing the right one. I see people smelling them and tapping them and I wonder if they get good results. Are you a good fruit picker? I don’t mean out of the orchard, but out of the store.
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That is because you are probably buying California fruit. In CA they do pick all the fruit green, not sure why. If you wait until the Washington fruit ripens in a few weeks you will get some good peaches and nectarines. Apricots are just starting to come off so those should be good soon. Cherries are just finishing and it was a big crop so you should be able to get a pretty good deal on those right now.
Cora - your local fruit expert :0)
Thank you. I just assumed it was local fruit. Yesterday I bought some good field grown tomatoes that came from Calif. They were only 99 cents a pound.
Don't worry Grandma. I think it is even harder on this side of the mountains to get good fruit. I've yet to get myself any that is worth eating with the exception of a pint of strawberries this week that came from Cali again. :) At least over in Yakima you get the fruit stands that I wish I had over here!
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