My neighbor who has the farmstand at the end of my driveway goes to the
farmer's market in Columbia a coupla times a week to get stuff that
doesn't/won't grow here (tomatoes are now past here, 2nd crop coming
later, so he's getting them from NC now I think) and picks up peaches
which come from SC orchards, or maybe NC now, so they are fairly fresh
off the trees, and probably get here within 2-3 days of picking. Lately
the peaches have been those big ones, and not entirely ripe, but they
ripen up OK in a coupla days in a paper bag. The first ones this year
were right off the trees in SC and have been wonderful.
--FT
On 8/28/16 10:17 AM, Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote:
The crap peaches here were from NORTH carolina!
Unfortunately, grocery distribution systems don't care if the crap
they sell is any good. The bean counters only look at "shrink" and
margins. Any peach worth eating will have some bruising, but the
bean counters can;t have that. On occasion, if you deal in good
peaches, you will get some that don't keep well and have to be thrown
out. The grocery mentality can't handle that.
The problem is really not the source, but the grocery mentality. I
just wanted to razz y'all NORTH and SOUTH Carolinians!
If you find a grocery store that has GOOD peaches, you have found a
GOOD produce manager and a good store system that lets the store buy
peaches and other perishables directly from the grower/trucker. The
BAD/normal system forces them to buy the warehouse crap, and there is
never a good peach that goes through the grocery warehouse.
WILTON via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
August 28, 2016 at 9:00 AM
The peaches here have been absolutely fantastic this year! NORTH
Carolina. ;<)
In years past, though, I have bought some (usually at Sam's) that
have been worthless - hard, tasteless, etc. Musta been from CA or
somewhere else foreign. 'Have been especially careful this year not
to waste my money on that crap.
W
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