If there is a good grocery store convenient to you, strike up a conversation with the staff in the produce department. They can be fairly knowledgeable, and at least some of them I've run into have been willing to cut into a piece of fruit to let me try it - if I've expressed interest in some thing I've never had before.
The grocery stores near me are a Trader Joe's, where all the produce is wrapped in layers of plastic, and the Watergate Safeway, which is kind of notoriously horrible. I don't think I've ever seen any fruit other than apples, berries, citrus, bananas, and the occasional mango in their produce department, and usually at least half of it is mushy. I've tried new fruits at the farmers' market sometimes.
I love berries of all kinds and dislike melons, so I can't advise you on tasty fruit, Hil, but you mentioned liking kiwi. The kiwi grower near me actually recommends buying a large amount of kiwi at once and storing it in the fridge where it won't really ripen, just keeping out the amount you plan to eat over the course of a few days. So if you find a source, don't be afraid to stock up. Or if you order online, I suppose [link]
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Most of the farmer's markets around here cut some fruit fro you to try.
But when you next go to the farmers market - tell them you are single and can only buy a limited amount of fruit -- ask them what to buy. It might take talking to a few , but eventually you will find a farmer or two that will steer you the right way.
And if fruit is going bad make fruit salad -- and keep it in the fridge. Maybe not the best way for fruit , but less mushy
Most veggies keep longer-- they don't go mushy as fast and they don't lose as much flavor in the fridge,
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who's jealous
who's jealous
I think I am.
Apparently we as a group have failed to provide appropriate encouraging gestures to those among us who have had hysterectomies: [link]
CANTELOPE!! God, I love it. Some hate it. It has substance to it.
My brother once penned an ode to a canteloupe, to be sung to the tune of O Tannenbaum:
O canteloupe O canteloupe
Why do you taste of grapefruit?
O canteloupe O canteloupe
You've ruined my best dinner suit
O lovely ti-i-i-iny canteloupe
You're smaller than... an antelope
O canteloupe O canteloupe
Why do you taste of grapefruit?
But...it doesn't taste of grapefruit.
Is this what Australian whimsy looks like?
you are not jealous , ws. I just weight a few bricks. they weigh about 6 lbs a piece.
Damn, an avocado is trying to kill me. I mean, I took my Benedryl but yeesh, I am not keen on the itchy throat that I am *still* feeling. Dude, you are a fruit that looks like a testicle, why do you want to kill me?
Hil, you can trick peaches by putting them in a small, paper bag to ripen quicker. I buy several and put one or two at a time in a bag, that way, I have one ready to eat each day. You could always experiment with different breeds of apples.
