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I can't eat that, it's faulty!

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  Posted by Vixxihibiscus (U13865184) on Friday, 17th December 2010

  Just thought I'd share my horror with all...
  
  I'm at work and our office has a free fruit bowl (not locally sourced but that's another matter). I brought apples up for the girls on either side of me. Only to be told by one of them that she didn't want her one as it "had marks on"
  
  She had a Golden Delicious apple and the "marks" in question were the regularly occuring freckles. I thought she was kidding but nope, totally serious!
  
  I'm actually speechless!?!

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  Posted by Palaisglide (U3102587) on Friday, 17th December 2010

  Vixxihibiscus,
  It goes to show what bulk shopping and supermarkets have done to us, modern people have no idea what grows where or what it should actually look like in its natural habitat.
  As a lad I grew up with a garden that fed us in all things meat fowl vegetables and fruit, we picked and killed our own food. We knew that fruit and veg can grow in odd shapes be attacked by birds and insects so what did we do, we cut it off ant ate it.
  Most kids then knew which apple was which and what to look for as a free meal in the hedge backs.
  Around me are lanes with masses of fruit, brambles apples plums and pears, I take the grandchildren and we pick the fruit for pies crumbles or just eat them there and then. The pears are Hazel's we ate masses of them years ago but they have vanished. We pick them from the tree and eat them so my grand children are learning something we knew by instinct and enjoying the process.
  I wonder what that girl would say if she saw the cooking apples I use off the tree for sauces and cooking. They are big ugly lumpy beasts but the taste is wonderful unlike Supermarket that have been picked too early kept stored and done in some cases thousands of miles.
  What you should do is buy some locally sourced Cox's and put them in the bowl, mind she may be off work sick for weeks after looking at them.
  Frank.

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  Posted by bogus the fungi man (U14705597) on Friday, 17th December 2010

  Well said Palaisglide. I have much the same experience as you.
  
  I wonder, Vixxihibiscus, if the girls in the office drink cider? If they only knew what went into that! I make my own cider and I've seen snails, slugs, worms, soil, leaves, woodlice to name but a few choice items that go into it. Comes out gorgeous though!

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  Posted by John Moodie (U14353581) on Friday, 17th December 2010

  Vixxihibiscus,
  A couple of years ago one of my buddies asked for some of my toms so I picked a bag full of my Black Russians, drove all the way downtown and dropped them off to him. I was talking to him about a week later and ask how he liked them. He told me that he had to throw them out. He couldn't bring himself to eat them because they were the wrong colour. He knows he really ticked me off on that one. He's never dared request any of my fruits or veggies since. It is amusing to see how uncomfortable he gets if my produce is mentioned when the gang hangs out.

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  Posted by hypercharleyfarley (U7444019) on Saturday, 18th December 2010

  Hello. I must say I did laugh at your message - until I reached the last sentence. I'd just seen a news programme shot of people shopping for Christmas and said to myself "how scruffy so many of them look" - girls wearing "fashionable" torn & tatty jeans with the hems dragging on the ground or thick black tights or leggings worn with a frayed denim mini-skirt and so on - and the men looked equally messy with ill-fitting dirty-looking clothing. How strange, then, that a few marks on an apple should mean such a lot to your colleague. Cheers! Ma.

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  Posted by Berghill (U2333373) on Saturday, 18th December 2010

  Have a friend who got an allotment and grew her own vegetables for the first time. Very proudly took home her first ever crop of potatoes.Husband refused to eat them because they had soil on them.
  In a way our children then must be very lucky, we have always grown vegetables and fruit in the garden so they saw how it was when collected and when it was in season. All of them now grow Veg in their own gardens and our grandchildren too have the opportunity to see food in its unprocessed state.
  Also know of a flat which was recently sold, where there was no facility for cooking at all, except for a Coffee maker and/or kettle. The vendor explained that a kitchen was not needed as the potential buyers would be of the type who ate out all the time or sent for Takeaway meals to be delivered. Sad state we have got into.
  Walking round the Veg section of a Supermarket and spotting the country of origin of the out of season stuff was quite horrifying, if a very good lesson in Geography.

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  Posted by hypercharleyfarley (U7444019) on Saturday, 18th December 2010

  Hello Berghill - wonderful about the dirty spuds! I do agree about the imported greengrocery - but think sometimes about the people overseas who grow those things for us and thus make their living from it. Do you remember years ago when many more goods were marked with a "Buy British" label? I'd be glad if we returned to that, so that people could make a choice and thus support home produced stuff if that's what they felt was important. The recent news about souvenirs for the 2012 Olympics being mostly made in China really made me stop & think.

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  Posted by Ian W (U8604472) on Saturday, 18th December 2010

  Although I get most of my fruit from asda I try to look for British grown stuff. You have to be careful though - one week probably 3 trays of apples had Union Jack lining but nothing was from the UK with one lot even being from America. I had a similar problem with their large "British lettuce" sign with every single lettuce being from Spain. I spoke to them of course and although they changed things it obviously didn't register why I found it a problem.

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  Posted by bogus the fungi man (U14705597) on Saturday, 18th December 2010

  Hello Breghill, perhaps she should have washed the soil off before she cooked the potatoes?

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  Posted by Daisy136 (U9682560) on Sunday, 19th December 2010

  Reading your comments about cox apples reminded me of when I was young and we had a cox apple tree in our garden. I have never tasted an apple as delicious as one of those fresh from the tree. I can always see my dear Dad shaking the apple next to his ear and telling me that you can always tell a cox apple because the pips rattle. Why dont they rattle now? Anyone else remember this?

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  Posted by Berghill (U2333373) on Sunday, 19th December 2010

  Our Cox's pips still rattle!
  The Supermarkets have sanitised and deseasoned our fruit and vegetable so many people have no idea what a potato for example looks like when it comes out of the ground, nor when things are in season in this country.
  Another question. Why is it that the apples I ate a lunchtime today, from our apple store, turn brown as soon as they are cut, yet the ones we used to buy from the Supermarkets (before our trees were producing) stayed pristine white?

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  Posted by BigDave (U3975543) on Monday, 20th December 2010

  Berghill....I think it must be the sprays and stuff they use to prolong the life....I don't want my kids to eat things like that, so I try and grow most of what we eat.
  
  Whatsthemarrow....

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  Posted by John Moodie (U14353581) on Monday, 20th December 2010

  Here in western Canada, a lot of produce comes up from California and Mexico. Last winter I bought some cherry tomatoes that had come from Mexico. I took them out of the container and noticed my hands had turned red. It wasn't easy to wash off either. I don't know what they had been sprayed with but I figured that if I couldn't wash it off my hands, I had better not eat them.

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  Posted by Vixxihibiscus (U13865184) on Tuesday, 21st December 2010

  John,
  
  I can't believe your friend wasted Black Russian tomatoes, that's a sin, they're just fabulous! What a dreadful waste!
  
  I actually said to the girl in question "you would die if you saw the nick of some of my apples" all scabby deliciousness I wouldn't swap them for the world!
  
  The bigger joke was on Friday night. We all went out and at the end of the night she chomped her way through the most enormous doner kebab. I just sat next to her silently thinking "....and you had a problem with that apple...if only you knew!"
  
  They all laugh at my garden geekyness (I'm only 29). I feel very lucky!

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  Posted by John Moodie (U14353581) on Tuesday, 21st December 2010

  Hi Vixxihibiscus,
  Yep, I bought my first plant when I was six years old and I was hooked.

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