I ask you, should a peach be that LARGE? What happened to fruit? Peaches, nectarines, apples – they’ve all gotten so big. I thought of “James and the Giant Peach,” when I saw this large one.
There was a huge section of large peaches, nectarines, apples. I had to scout around to find normal small size fruit, I did find a few as you can see. The large fruit has no flavor. Also, if I am taking a fruit with me for lunch, I only need one portion size, not two portions. How about kids? How can we encourage them to eat fruit if we can’t give them normal small size?
First the chicken was plumped up, now fruit. Portion sizes for everything keep getting bigger and bigger. We really don’t need such big portions. It’s not healthy for us, for sure.
Maybe it’s just in the Midwest.
Anyone else notice this at your grocery stores?
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At the Farmer’s markets I’ve been going to on vacation the plums, pluots and peaches are the most flavorful I’ve had. Also, they’re normal size. In Arizona I don’t have fruit like that. I think I’ll just skip the grocery store fruit from now on.
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Grocery stores are becoming more flexible in what they accept. The different sizes were always there, but stores wanted standardized sizes, easier for presentation.
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Interesting. I think another issue with the Midwest is that a lot of the fruit seems like it was frozen, it’s mushy when I eat it. Well, there is travel time from wherever the fruit is coming from. This is when I miss living on the West Coast. Seattle had wonderful fruits/vegetables.
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Living in the middle of the desert, I suppose I’m used to less than stellar fruits/veggies. Nothing like homegrown.
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I have a friend who has a raspberry and blackberry bush, my gosh they produce so much. It’s wonderful. Then she tried asparagus, interesting to see how they grow. I like them, but had never thought about they grow.
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I miss my blackberry bushes and all the jam they produced. 🙂
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I would too. I love blackberry jam.
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I find the Farmer’s markets have normal sized fruit, but the grocery store has those very large peaches, which seemed juicy enough but lacking in flavor. The boxes say they are from the Niagara region, which is our typical peach producing region, but I’ve never seen them that size before. I wondered what’s up with that too? I didn’t find any of the fruit particularly good/sweet this year, but then maybe it wasn’t the best weather. I did can three batches of peach jam though, one with no sugar, one with a bit, and one sweet.
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Great that you made your own jam. That’s the BEST. Our Farmer’s Markets are during the week in the evening. Not always convenient to go to. Saturday would have been better.
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Because that peach has decided to define itself as “an orange”. It can do that because science is real.
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LOL – you are right!! It’s our NEW way of looking at the world. It does look like an orange.
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We have a Farmer’s Market here with wonderful produce but I’m told you have to get there early or everything will be gone. Also, I saw packaged peaches recently where the shape had been compressed to more of an oval. I think they called them Doughnuts. Not sure why, maybe somebody’s brainchild for making fruit easier to hold?
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I’ve seen those donuts one too, have not tried it though. If you do, let me know what you think.
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Here in Aussie, we have so many farms. Well rainy season of course brings less sweet. All depends sometimes very sweet and medium size. Some imported also can be different sizes and tastes. I also like them to be for one person or else they don’t stay fresh 🙂
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Yes, you are right, smaller sizes stay fresh longer. It’s nice having a lot of farms.
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Seriously, who want to eat flavorless fruit/meat, let alone a supersized one?
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