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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] strawberries
  • Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 17:34:03 -0400


On May 20, 2011, at 5:17 PM, Bob Hartman wrote:

Sticking your nose on or near fruit doesn't sound good to me. At fruit
shows some people want to pick up the fruit to smell it. We have to put out
signs for people not to pick up the fruit because we are going to have
people tasting the fruit and having someone's nose next to a fruit is not
appetizing.

Bob

When I do this in groceries, I'm not sticking my nose on the fruit. And I'm not blowing on it, or exhaling towards it. I'm inhaling in its general vicinity. I suspect Ginda, who's the one who originally posted about choosing strawberries by scent, does the same thing.

If I could only smell it with my nose touching it, I wouldn't expect it to taste like much (for strawberries, or tomatoes, or other aromatic produce).

If there are samples actually out to taste, I don't need to smell it. But in any case, I never assume that fruit on the shelf in a grocery, or on a market stand, is untouched. Even if people only touched it with their hands, they may have touched their noses with their hands since they were last next to soap and water.

If I put out samples to taste, I wash them first.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale







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