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  • From: athagan@atlantic.net
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Luscious Plums (also bananas)
  • Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:23:23 -0400

Quoting Betty Mayfield <bmayfield@opusnet.com>:

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

My daughter and I had this very conversation not so long ago when choosing bananas.

.....Alan.



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