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[Del Stubbs <northernlights2n@yahoo.com>]

Amanda's comment reminded me of my visit with a kiwi farmer in New Zealand 
years ago when
kiwis were all the rage here. He was hauling an overloaded pickup of 
beautiful kiwis to
his brothers hog farm. I was a bit dumfounded, he said look closer - they 
were all double
or triple fruits - not the classic single as we see in the stores even today. 
He said his
New York buyer would reject them.
I was behind a grocery store years ago getting cardboard banana boxes to use 
for
shipping. In one was an unopened bag of carrots, being the upstanding farm 
boy I was I
marched it in the back door and gave it to the green grocer presuming it was 
an error. He
said "Keep it, they are all bent carrots, they will get picked over for 
straight ones
every time, so I save the trouble and throw them out early". After that, till 
they
started locking them up, I became a converted dumpster diver. 
Del

--- Amanda Emily  wrote:
> and the culls from the packing houses seem to get left to be 
> sold here in Washington).


Del Stubbs  www.pinewoodforge.com   zone 3a   N. MN


      
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