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["David Consolvo" <fruitopia@nexet.net>]

Every time I go to Italy it has been just long enough for me to have 
forgotten my past experience with the apples there.  At the first outdoor 
market or fruttivendolo shop I find, I buy several types of apples I am 
unfamiliar with, looking forward to trying new (to me) varieties.  Every time 
I am disappointed anew with how mealy they all are.

David Consolvo
in Hungrytown hollow, far far away from Italy


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "kieran or donna" <redherring@tnaccess.com>
Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date:  Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:16:28 -0600

>Lon wrote:
>"A friend who visited Italy told me that all the apples he tried there
>would be considered over ripe and mealy by our standards."
>
>    Huh, they must be making up for the horrible green shiny Golden
>Delicious apples from France that used to be sold in England when I lived
>there 25 years ago.  They were watery and tasteless, hard to do with a
>variety that good, but they picked them really green.  Fortunately England
>had so many excellent apples to choose from back then, I was always baffled
>why anyone would buy the French ones.  And the pears, oh my, Conference
>pears, heaven on earth.  I have never heard of them for sale in this
>country, and I am sure Tennessee would kill the trees in no time unless
>someone comes up with a cure for Fireblight.
>    Someone told me years ago that all the meat in Italy was tough, because
>they waited till the animals were on their last legs to kill them.  Actually
>I know now what he was talking about, because if you have an animal to make
>eggs or milk or offspring, you do wait till it's past it's prine for it's
>final use.  Though the meat is tough, it has a great deal of flavor for
>soups and stews.  Grocery veggies and the fruit are tasteless to me because
>I'm used to the good stuff, and due to friend's beefalo and our old hens and
>surplus roosters, the grocery meat has lost it's flavor too.    Donna
>
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