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  • From: Betty Mayfield <bmayfield@opusnet.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Luscious Plums (also bananas)
  • Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:07:31 -0700

At 06:22 AM 9/12/2008, Jim Fruth wrote:

<snip>
Here in Minnesota, if the plums aren't hard, people won't buy them.

<snip>

Jim,

It isn't only about plums that stores have trained their customers poorly. Nowdays most banana bins are full of half green fruit. It used to be that the mark of a good banana was a yellow skin with tiny black dots indicating full development of sugar.

What made me laugh one day was a man shopping with a 9 or 10-year-old girl - probably his granddaughter. He picked up a cluster of bananas that were yellow with a tiny bit of green around the necks. She took them from him and replaced them with an all-green cluster. Obviously there was a generation in between that was brainwashing her into buying green bananas.

Betty Mayfield
northwest Oregon

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