On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 06:38:54 -0700, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

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It has been years since I had a good banana. Melons from the farmer's
makrket are good, but the ones in supermarkets are nasty. The grapes
from Chile are picked too soon and not as sweet as they should be, but
they have to survive the long trip.


when grapes FIRST appeared from Chile, they were incredibly delicious!
We're talking so much sugar they actually stuck together sometimes. Like
vine ripened. incredible, but within a year the FDA found BAD grapes from
Chile which staunched that flow. The adulterated grapes turned out to be
two shriveled grapes that had been injected with strichnine. hmmm...yeah
that happens a lot in nature. Well, after that, the grapes coming in from
Chile started tasting EXACTLY like the grapes form elsewhere. Picked too
green, no flavour, etc. But at least for one season we found some
produce, albeit at Safeway, that tasted like it should.