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Another problem is shipping. A lot of produce is picked before it's ripe, because unripe fruit is less easily damaged during shipping. This is a simple reason
by nathan_long 14y ago
Another problem is shipping. A lot of produce is picked before it's ripe, because unripe fruit is less easily damaged during shipping.
This is a simple reason to buy local produce: if it was picked ripe, maybe today or yesterday, it will taste better.
- MrFoof 14y agoMerlin Mann and John Gruber had a pretty good discussion of this (and many other things) in "The Banana Window" episode of The Talk Show. http://5by5.tv/talkshow/57 http://5by5.tv/talkshow/57
- euoia 14y agoOn this topic, I am sure that many tropical fruits taste so much better when you eat them in their native setting. Mangoes and papaya are the first two that come to mind. I have never had a good papaya in England or in Canada and yet, in the West Indies they are one of my favourites.
- DanBC 14y agoGrowing tomatoes hydroponically, in greenhouses, all year round, then picking them early, and then shipping them (from Holland to US?) seems really weirdly sub optimal.
- jodrellblank 14y agoIt's optimising for some metric, just not the one you care more about.