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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] American food attitudes
  • Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:51:13 -0500

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:24:10 -0600, you wrote:

>It always amazes me the customers at Farmers' Market who will pass up the
>beautiful, fully ripe, wonderfully fragrant tomatoes for those that are at
>best half-ripe. but, knowing that they will be there, we always have a box
>or two of under-ripe tomatoes - and we never take them home. Education is
>our job as much as growing the wonderful food - but sometimes it is a little
>discouraging trying to convince the American palate.
>

My husband eats what I would consider unripe tomatoes and
unripe bananas - given a choice, he'll take the unripe ones.
Strange.

But: given a choice of supermarket tomatoes and *real*
tomatoes, he does indeed know the difference.

Pat
--
"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of
supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry




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