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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We lived in Eastern Europe and we still talk about how when we got the peaches home from the farmer's market you could cut into one and the whole apartment would have this delightful peachy smell.  The peaches you get here are not the same!  I don't know if it's pesticide use or commercial agriculture or the fact that they are artificially ripened vs ripening under the sun, but they don't make your whole house smell like peaches and they aren't nearly as flavorful.  It was much easier to like fruit and to prefer it for a snack when the fruit was fresh and flavorful.  Often here the melon or the tomatoes, etc.  just isn't as flavorful.  The peppers here are very crunchy but don't taste nearly the same.  I think it's because sun-ripened things have a lot more flavor, but I'm clearly not a scientist.  Maybe people here don't like fruit as much because it doesn't taste as good as it does elsewhere.[/quote]

The answer is how far fresh produce travels. I grew up out West with amazing produce. Cheap, beautiful, and ripe strawberries. They were farm picked fresh. Not picked early to ripen en route in a jumbo jet. When produce ripens naturally it taste amazing. You don’t like produce hers because it’s shipped from far away. The US is huge compared to Eastern Europe and there are different growing zones.[/quote]

This. If you go to a farmers market and find peaches from a local farm, when peaches are in season locally, you will have that taste and smell experience.[/quote]

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