Is produce less reliably good?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look around for local farm produce.

In November? Some places might still have produce for sale, but it isn't local. It probably came out of the same warehouse the grocery store produce came from.

I get a csa delivery from a farm. This week it’s leeks beets onions garlic fennel kale sweet potatoes and squash

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I bought grapes yesterday and they were delicious. (But the out-of-season raspberries were predictably not good.)

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This is not a snarky answer, I genuinely marvel every time I go shopping at the availability and quality and variety and relative affordability of fresh produce. It’s absolutely incredible. I know there are bad things about the system but it’s still like a miracle to me every time. I mean I was born and raised here, I’m not comparing it to some austere personal past, but I can read books and stuff and that seems like more than enough to be dazzled by it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look around for local farm produce.

In November? Some places might still have produce for sale, but it isn't local. It probably came out of the same warehouse the grocery store produce came from.

Not true, you just have to take what's being grown. Our Pennsylvania CSA will have hurukai turnips, broccoli, kale, lettuce, leeks, rutabaga, stripetti squash. It's always delicious. Some things have surprised me too - like potatoes and celery. I didn't think those would taste any different from our CSA than the grocery store but they are SO MUCH BETTER!

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't had a decent tomato in years. Not from the supermarket, not from the farmer's market, not from anywhere. Tomatoes used to have a sweetness that balanced their acidity. No longer.

Try Camparis, they aren’t bad by today’s standards. They actually taste of something.

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Anonymous wrote:I shop all over the place, high, low, small, big, and it's so rare for me to find very tasty fruit for instance that when I do it's like wow, this is an actual apple, this is an actual strawberry...but it's rare. Usually things do not have has much taste. I've been to the source for strawberries, pyo, in season, and don't find that it guarantees good taste. Had Rainier apples that were amazing and then the following week same brand apples taste bland.

Know what you mean. Try MOM's
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1224952.page