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["Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>]

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Ginda,

The simple answer is instinct.  Fear off the different  Every thinking,  
living thing has had that particular instinct breed into them for millions  
of years.

For millenia avoiding the new, strange and unusual presered life.

Running away from the new, strange or unusual was the standard.

We now have reason, but reason is not hard wired like instinct.

You need a few shills infront of your booth raving about tomatoes.  Once  
the innovators have acccepted the fruit, the more tentative masses will  
folow.

Later,
Tom


On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:27:30 -0400, Ginda Kaplan Fisher <list@ginda.us>  
wrote:

> On Oct 24, 2006, at 10:03 AM, Jim Fruth wrote:
> >  In the twenty years I've
> > been selling at farmers' markets, I've only ever once been asked,
> > "Which one
> > tastes the best?"
>
> And yet, when I ask people that very question at farmstands, they often
> shrug and say they don't know.  I'm surprised how many people who SELL
> produce either don't taste the goods or are indifferent to flavors.
>
> Ginda
>
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