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Perhaps similar, the US doesn't harvest a ton of eggplants, but of eggplant producing states New Jersey is #1 in terms of acreage. About 20% more acres than the
by cwal37 5y ago
Perhaps similar, the US doesn't harvest a ton of eggplants, but of eggplant producing states New Jersey is #1 in terms of acreage. About 20% more acres than the #2 state of California. I've idly wondered in the past if it's a cultural artifact as the distribution of acreage in the US is New jersey, then CA, then FL/GA, so some pretty different climates, so this article is interesting!
- madcaptenor 5y agoHard to see it as a cultural artifact, though, because those are also pretty different places culturally. (As it happens I've lived in New Jersey, California, and Georgia.)
- cwal37 5y agoAh, I meant in New jersey specifically as its climate feels like more of an outlier to me in that list.
- madcaptenor 5y agoI can see that, maybe if you figure that Italian-Americans eat more eggplant than the average American?
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoAlso cranberries. New Jersey was the world capital for cranberry production with the headquarters of Ocean Spray juices.
- InfiniteRand 5y agoDoes our state smell like urine? Yes, yes it does, clean bacteria-free urine https://www.cc.com/video/u11ezi/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-hey-c-mon-that-s-not-why-would-you-whoa https://www.cc.com/video/u11ezi/the-daily-show-with-jon-stew...
- c0balt 5y agoArgh, I got geoblocked. Only for the USA?
- xeromal 5y agoThis is just a wild guess, but New Jersey had/has a large population of Italian immigrants and I believe eggplant is a pretty popular ingredient in Italian dishes. I'm sure that drove some of the demand.
- fedreserved 5y ago
- dfxm12 5y agoThat would cover farms selling to local buyers (restaurants, super markets and direct to consumer), but that's a tiny part of the market. Most are going to wholesale distributors & production on this level would need more of an explanation than that. New Jersey is nicknamed the garden state for a reason. Despite it's population density, it's got a ton of farm land and grows a lot of food for the NA east coast & beyond. I'd guess that they found a niche where eggplants grow well in NJ soil/climates and probably catch more at market than other alternative crops.
- AlgorithmicTime 5y agoEggplant parmesan.