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Interesting, I've been living in Vienna for more than 7 years now and didn't notice the fruits and vegetables tasting any worse when I visited Atlanta, Georgia.
by ido 14y ago
Interesting, I've been living in Vienna for more than 7 years now and didn't notice the fruits and vegetables tasting any worse when I visited Atlanta, Georgia.
They did cost more than here in Austria tho, which surprised me (I assumed everything consumable would be cheaper in the US).
- pka 14y agoYeah, I was overgeneralizing - what I meant were industrial Californian tomatoes. The taste is probably much better in other regions of the US. Also it probably depends on what chain you buy them from - it wasn't Walmart but it was still some big retailer iirc. If you buy tomatoes from Hofer here they won't taste very good either (but still a lot better than the ones I had in CA).
- ido 14y agoYeah, I was overgeneralizing - what I meant were industrial Californian tomatoes. The taste is probably much better in other regions of the US. I'd actually be surprised that a rich and organic/health obsessed place like California wouldn't have much better produce than Atlanta/Georgia :)
- excuse-me 14y agoIt always amazed me how bad the supermarket produce was in California. Almost all of it is grown within 100miles of LA, even Mexico is only a couple of hours away and yet all of it was terrible factory-grade long life varieties and expensive. That's the other weird thing for a european, the supermarkets are more expensive than the corner vegetable stores, there are no fruit/veg markets - only either farm gate trucks or fancy expensive farmers markets
- rprasad 14y agoSupermarket food is grown in the Central Valley, which is at least 100 miles from L.A. Only Farmer's Market foods are grown in quantity close to L.A.