It's all the chicken shit they use for fertilizer. Seriously

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Anonymous wrote:Probably all the chemicals and fertilizers they use.

Really? They use more of these on the Eastern Shore than at the farms from where DC's Famers' Market produce comes from?

Yes. The ES markets are not organic. You are eating industrial produce. The salty sea air: SHE IS A CRUEL MISTRESS.

Anonymous wrote:Probably all the chemicals and fertilizers they use.

Really? They use more of these on the Eastern Shore than at the farms from where DC's Famers' Market produce comes from?

Without commenting whether I personally enjoy Eastern Shore produce more, or less, than farmers' market produce brought into D.C. from central Pennsylvania ....

soil composition and climate has everything to do with it.


(this is why "we" can never, ever recreate the taste of a southern Italian tomato in the states, fwiw. We don't have that volcanic history)

I've heard it's the soil, but I have no idea if that's true.

Probably all the chemicals and fertilizers they use.

Meh, it doesn't really. It's just a state of mind.

Just got back from the Eastern Shore and picked up a bunch of fresh produce from one of those roadside stands. Corn, tomatoes, melon, peaches, blueberries, green beans. All SO GOOD! I mean, much better than what I typically get at our local farmers' markets, which is all farm fresh, too, I'm sure. Why does the ES produce taste so much better? And it's not just because I KNOW it's from the ES. I picked this stuff up on the way back from a meeting in Salisbury and served it for dinner without telling my husband where it was from, and he commented on how good it was without knowing.