fruit from mexico

[Daisy_]

Do you guys eat it??? I just bought some grapes and found out they were from mexico. i am scared to eat them now

 

[jenscats5]

Wash it first....

 

[CFZB]

I thought you were gonna say sorearms was gay.I was like hey now......

 

[KillzwithPillz]

I think you'll be ok? where did you buy them?

 

[Lestat]

lotsa fruit comes from mexico

 

[Daisy_]

Just at the grocery store, I never buy mexican fruit. I dont know if I will eat it. I am weird that way. My nectarines say made in Usa or whatever they will be fine huh ?

 

[SoreArms]

I thought you were gonna say sorearms was gay.I was like hey now......

WTF


LOL, I think

 

[Lestat]

Sorearms is from mexico, he turned out ok

 

[SoreArms]

Just at the grocery store, I never buy mexican fruit. I dont know if I will eat it. I am weird that way. My nectarines say made in Usa or whatever they will be fine huh ?

If there's one thing Mexicans know, it's picking good fruit.

and I'm sure you've bought plenty of Mexican fruit before, you just never noticed

 

[Daisy_]

true enough. But i heard they water it with bad things like Sewer water and fertilize it with human poo.

 

[redguru]

Human poo is actually an excellent fertilizer. Does no harm to the plants, just the people working with it.

 

[jenscats5]

true enough. But i heard they water it with bad things like Sewer water and fertilize it with human poo.

Wash it first....

 

[ChefWide]

throw them out.

Support local growers and eat SEASONAL produce!!

No fecking raspberries in January, mkay?

Support american farms and american farmers, and if you can buy local in your comunity: DO IT!

 

[Daisy_]

Wash it first....

Will I ever!

 

[saint808]

Will I ever!

we dunno... will you?

 

[jenscats5]

Will I ever!

With soap....

 

[Daisy_]

With soap....

I think i might just through them away...
I wont eat them.

 

[Lestat]

i like having rasberries year round.. nothing wrong with foreign produce, I support local stuff to, I go to a local farmers market every sunday

 

[jaded]

I love raspberries

Speaking of fruit the best fruit I had was in Hawaii....the pineapple, etc. was so good

 

[Lestat]

I love raspberries

Speaking of fruit the best fruit I had was in Hawaii....the pineapple, etc. was so good

yeah good raspberries are one of my favorites

 

[ChefWide]

i like having rasberries year round.. nothing wrong with foreign produce, I support local stuff to, I go to a local farmers market every sunday

I suppose.. what do you associate summer with?!? I associate it with picking the first wild black, blue and rasps from my folks farm... from that first ear of sweet white corn with garlic butter dripping off it... from a deep golden fresh peach still warm from the sun...

If you buy globally for the 'memory' foods of your childhood, i think you lose the joy of it, the romance of eating that which conjeurs up the love of being in the here and now. Really. I will not eat or serve fresh raspberries in February, is it a huge big deal? no, just me.


I long to preserve some of the rituals that make life so rich. Some of that requires not giving in to instant gratification all the time, NOT drinking fresh apple cider year round. Not eating pumpkin in April.

I remember the mind bending joy of going down to the press shack with a hay trailer filled with bushels of 6 different kinds of apples. It was cold out, but not winter yet, dressed in jeans and woolrich shirts and turtlenecks... the smell of burning leaves and warm fireplaces... of maple must being boiled early... of doing the crush and watching the cider pour like mad from under the burlap. I loved the smell of it. The old men standing around having a beer, of that INSANELY fresh flavor of on of god's great gifts.

It wouldn't work for me in 100 heat and flip flops.

You know?

 

[Lestat]

I just started eating raspberries like a year ago, so they hold no such memories for me really.

 

[ChefWide]

I just started eating raspberries like a year ago, so they hold no such memories for me really.

which is it, mon? you totally missed my point, or you are makin' fun of me... again?

 

[Lestat]

which is it, mon? you totally missed my point, or you are makin' fun of me... again?

not making fun of you, i see your point. I've just never had those experiences.

 

[nutsnack]

i love fruit!

 

[ChefWide]

not making fun of you, i see your point. I've just never had those experiences.

when i was living in the islands i used to go to the market every saturday and ask Mrs. Johnson, the four million year old woman that i got my produce from, to feed me something i have never had before and tell me a story about what i was eating. In return, i would get her a cigar. She loved Tiparillos. Thought the plastic tip was the shit.

She would most often tell me how to cook it, or where it grows, why its special, etc... but once in a great while she would tell me a story about a food that was all about its 'lore', its association with evil or good, its connection to different spirits... little pieces of africa, brazil, a big dose of carribean culture a salad of both, of course, but wicked emotional things about avocados ('aligator pears' if you live in BIWI), miniature bananas ('finger rolls') or furry mangosteen ('monkey no climb fruit') along with breadfruit and akee and peppers and fresh vanilla and ginger and lemongrass by the truckload ('bush') and mounds of green coconuts ('jelly's') as high as the building waiting to have the top lopped off by a 12 year old with a razor machete and have the 'water' quaffed and the jelatinous interiour sucked back like life itself...


There is so much to be found in the little things, so much joy in the simple. You can find it everywhere.