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Similarly my parents live in a rural community and practically everyone grows garlic, but farm-stands have trouble competing with grocery store (read: Chinese)
by mfoy_ 7y ago
Similarly my parents live in a rural community and practically everyone grows garlic, but farm-stands have trouble competing with grocery store (read: Chinese) garlic.
- corodra 7y agoFlorida has a fuckton of strawberry fields. I'm about 1-3 counties away from the major producers. In major grocery chains around me, it's all California and Mexico strawberries. You have no idea how angry that makes me.
- zwieback 7y agoWho eats the Floridian strawberries?
- madcaptenor 7y agoI definitely have seen Florida strawberries in Georgia. (Georgia also grows strawberries, although not that many.)
- corodra 7y agoThat's because you lot focus on peaches. Which, I mean, yea... Only good reason to risk getting a bs speeding ticket in Georgia is for a peach run.
- js2 7y agoNorth Carolinian here. SC peaches are superior to GA peaches.
- madcaptenor 7y agoThey might be. I don't see SC peaches in Georgia, and I haven't been there, so I haven't tried them. I assume the South Carolinians are hoarding their peaches for themselves. (If I have a dog in this fight, it's actually New Jersey, where I grew up.)
- corodra 7y agoNobody knows... Just kidding. To my knowledge a lot go to processing, not consumer consumption. Typically these are also labeled as "ugly" because they're not always your traditional strawberry shape. Similar, Florida oranges were mostly juicing oranges, not consumption. Though greenery has really fucked up that market sector. I just don't appreciate the whole "look" based market we have in the states. I think it's as stupid as stupid gets. A majority of food prices are due to people not wanting their food to "look" a certain way. Even though that look has zero correlation to taste. Which, typically, the ugly ones have more flavor. Like, the best beefsteak tomato looks like a hideous tumor. God as my witness, they have a great taste. It's good enough to just slice and eat by itself. But then the pretty beefsteak tomatoes are a watery disaster of sadness. Just me ranting away about the terrible disconnect a majority of the population has to their food. It's really sad. There's really no cure to it unless the fed mandates Victory Gardens. Which, I'm totally for. The only big government action I'll approve is the fed saying "If you have a yard, you must cultivate 25% of it minimum as a Victory Garden or face penalty of death." A day worth celebrating.
- ijiiijji1 7y agoMost fresh fruit isn't beautiful but is still perfectly edible, so it goes into processed foods.
- timje1 7y agoLook has a correlation to perceived taste. People perceive things to be tastier when they look good.
- corodra 7y agoUntil you live on a farm and realize the ugly ones taste better by far measure and the pretty ones should just be fed to the chickens. Most people these days never get that experience. So they think what they're looking at is a pretty strawberry. In reality, it's only real use is compost.
- ryacko 7y agoPeople are averse to defective products. Because people can pick and choose, they will select the best product. If we all agree to purchase slightly damaged food and only remove the damaged part, it would be fine. There is still the issue that people do not know how the food was damaged, which is a different supply chain issue.