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Originally Posted by DAVES
You need to read a book on how to pick fruit.
Contrary to most things fruit is seasonal. It is best when it is cheapest. Tomatoes for example are good now. You could buy them during our winter they were expensive and simply bad.
Cantaloupes-they are best vine ripened. When, they ripen on the vine the stem easily tears from the melon leaving a belly button type scar. The ones commonly offered are cut from the vine.
You see a small part of the vine still attached to the mellon.
At best it will not be great and you need to let it ripen for about a week. It needs to breathe or it will rot. Best done in a wooden bowl.
Apples. If, you buy them now they will not be as good as you would hope. The apples you buy now were picked last fall and have been in cold storage for about 6 months.
A good sense of smell is an asset. I can tell if a display of cantaloupes, pineapple etc is good just by walking by it.
Wife says I smell like a dog not always sure how to interpret that.
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I agree with you with one exception, I do know how to select and buy fruit. And in Florida the options are very poor selection and quality. I have lived all over the US and a few foreign countries and I have always been able to buy decent fruit. Except here in Florida. And that makes no common sense to me. You would think that you should be able to buy great fruit here. But you can't. To me that is a mystery and I would like a good explanation or a good place to purchase it. And yes of course in season is best. So would you not think that right now watermelon would be in season? Are not Georgia peaches in season? Are Florida cantaloupe not just coming in season? Blueberries just finishing? Blackberries just coming on? And yet store bought further north are much better than local. WHY?