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This! Just about everybody in America works full time, but we still manage to have lives and hobbies. Maybe that's the big difference: we're more productive than Europeans.
Objections - immigrant here with f/t job, house, garden and family
Of course produce tastes different from place A to place B. Soil is the first factor. Is it in its natural environment and season? Can it grow on its own terms or is it being pushed to market size? My tomatoes are sun warm when make it to the kitchen but there will be none until they are in season again. Small exception are Campari on sale. Cabbage in Georgia in July? I pass. It is either import or stored. That is like strawberries for Christmas.
Do I miss food items? Occasionally but we go by the old rule of "when in Rome ...". Right now it's peaches and corn. Eat and cook your fill as there is nothing like a small piece of perfumed paradise aka a ripe peach. Fall and winter and its cabbages and root vegetables will be here in no time.
Hahaha, I did it, and there's no way your commute in Atlanta comes anywhere close to mine. However, I limited my "crop" to a few vegetables so that it was manageable. I had lettuce, cucumbers, and, of course since I live in New Jersey, tomatoes. (If I were really the Mighty Queen, I would outlaw unripe, baseball-quality tomatoes altogether. That's just wrong.) That was when I had a real backyard. Now I'm in a condo with a small, fenced-in patio/garden area, but I still have four tomato plants, three cucumber plants, and a jalapeno pepper. Oh, and some herbs.
For many people growing their garden is there outlet, whether they work 40 hours a week or 60. It seems the OP can't seem to understand this. Container gardening is seems to be on the upswing, for lots of reasons.
I also think OP is forgetting what grows well one place, may not somewhere else, plus she isn't considering the season. Maybe cabbage is in season in her native land and not so in ours.
All this being said, I doubt the op really wants to hear all our advise. I think it is easier to whine and wish she could get food like she gets at home, whether for real or in her mind.
Atlanta had some great Asian markets there with good looking produce. Try there? That's where I get mine in my city. The produce tend to be local since the stores aren't franchised. Or as others suggest, CSA. There are farms all around that will deliver to pick up points in Atlanta. Good luck!
This. We buy all of our produce from the local Asian supermarket in Chinatown. Fresh, huge vegetables, at a fraction of the cost that you'd find them in traditional supermarkets.
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You know, I'm pretty sure you say these bizarro, obnoxious things to get a reaction--and I see that it works for you, lol, because people do react....
Don't most people post hoping to get a reaction?
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--and I know from other posts you've made in the past that you are above all else, a Perpetual Complainer about pretty much everything. ......
.... Yes, keep complaining if that gets you your giggles and makes for thread ideas, but if you're purposely going to try to sound ignorant and insulting, people are going to dismiss you after a while......
How ironic that you should wag your finger at her for complaining and being insulting.
I think this has been a very good and informative thread - thanks, Syracusa!
I hereby invite our whiny OP to visit any one of our several farmers' markets and let's see how much fault she/he can find with the produce. OP wants a "YES" or "NO" answer to questions that aren't yes/no propositions.
I agree. They don't have good produce. I bought a bag of apples and about a third of them turned out to be bruised and beginning to rot. Haven't had good luck with most of their other stuff, either. I get coffee and a few other items there, but I'm going to drive the extra seven or eight minutes to the farm stand to get my produce.
wish we had T. Js here, maybe one of these days. I really have never gotten anything bad from one,but I don't necessarily think the produce is organic or any healthier than anyplace else and I don't go there for produce. Of course, living where we do, I don't go there period now, unless I happen to be in Dallas, visiting NV or CA.
I don't purchase any produce pre-packaged, because I invariably end up finding rot and the packaging mostly ends up as trash. The exception used to be berries, but I now have strawberry and raspberry patches in my garden.
Exactly as happens here. See my post with all the photos of the Union Square market in Manhattan. As I already mentioned, some of them drive four hours to set up at dawn. Even the Amish (who I guess get someone else to do the driving.)
This sounds like the Grand Central Market in downtown Los Angeles. Mom and dad would go there for our weekly veggies in the 40s and 50s.Most of the venders were Asian. Then we would go after I got married and to my surprise, apparently it is still there. If it is like it was 60 plus years ago, all the produce is home grown and yes, the venders come from far away sometimes.
BTW; love your reference the Amish and someone driving them.
This. We buy all of our produce from the local Asian supermarket in Chinatown. Fresh, huge vegetables, at a fraction of the cost that you'd find them in traditional supermarkets.
Our Asian market doesn't have a lot of fresh produce, but when we stop in for other things, we always find something to buy; usually ginger, snow peas and bok choy. I don't think it is locally grown but still less expensive than the grocery stores. Living in NWA we don't have a china Town, we do have Asians here and many sell thier produce at our local farmers markets. They are great farmers. In fact daughter and I will probably buy several lbs of cukes for pickles when we visit this coming Thursday.
I just do not think the Op really is trying to find the best for whatever reason. She is also overlooking seasons, like so many people have mentioned.
How ironic that you should wag your finger at her for complaining and being insulting.
I think this has been a very good and informative thread - thanks, Syracusa!
We all have our opinions, and I certainly do not agree with you. We have learned the difference between locally grown produce and what we get from the super market, and that some people don't want to take the time or spend the money for quality produce, but they do want to whine.
Yes, most posts are to get information, enjoyable conversation and in some cases to get reactions, but this one isn't meant to do anything other than stir up controvery. That isn't good.
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