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Originally Posted by l2ridehd
I was in Virginia visiting the grand kids last week and went to the grocery store and bought fruit. And I do know how to buy good fruit. I got watermelon, pineapple, strawberries, cantaloupe, grapes, and peaches and made them a big fresh fruit platter. All fruit was excellent.
When I got home I went to Publix and bought almost the same fruits. No peaches as they didn't have any. It was all terrible, no taste, mealy, dry, worst fruit ever. I have tried all the different stores here, Publix, Aldi's, Fresh Market, Walmart, Winn Dixie and the same thing.
I can't seem to buy decent fruit in Florida. You would think it would be just the opposite, but I find the fruit here terrible. I can usually get decent grapes and apples and sometimes blueberries, but almost everything else is awful.
Why can't we get decent fruit here? What I bought in Virginia came from all over and it was all excellent. Here it was all awful. WHY?
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You could play baseball with the pears.
I stopped at a roadside stand on 466A over by Pine Ridge. The guy had tomatoes and strawberries. I know not to expect much from Florida tomatoes, but the strawberries looked so beautiful. He gave me a sample, however, and it was tasteless. I didn't buy. In fact, I don't buy strawberries in our grocery stores unless I'm planning on doctoring them up or adding them to a trifle or somesuch. I agree with you--blueberries are mostly good (I've had better in other places), as are Honeycrisp apples, grapes, and some melons (occasionally). There are some melons sold in netting occasionally in the summer. They are pricey but quite good. I can't remember the brand name.