Spring / Fall prices

xoxoxoBruce · 03-05-2006, 10:13 PM

We are getting close to spring so the world below the equator is getting close to fall harvest time.
I guess that's why when I went to Pathmark (supermarket) tonight, they had peaches, plums, nectarines and two or three types of grapes for 99 cents/lb.
Hell, at those prices, I could make my own booze.

Skunks · 03-06-2006, 03:53 AM

I love this time of year because organic navel oranges are under $1/lb, and the oranges themselves often weigh over a pound each.

juicy..

mm.

Trilby · 03-08-2006, 11:57 AM

I bought some of these things called Honeybells--a hybrid orange. Ungodly expensive and shipped from Florida. They weren't so much juicy as they were water-y. No taste. I was sooooo disappointed. I had citrus regret for weeks.

Spearmint Of Wrigley · 03-25-2006, 04:55 PM

I love tomatoes...they are SO expensive in Spring (where I'm at) and SO much cheaper in the fall !

xoxoxoBruce · 03-25-2006, 10:20 PM

Welcome to the Cellar, Spearmint Of Wrigley. Try not to gum up the works.

Beestie · 03-26-2006, 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

.. they had peaches...

A peach from somewhere other than Georgia or South Carolina is little more than a picture of a peach. And that includes those peach-colored baseballs from California

seakdivers · 03-27-2006, 01:07 AM

oh gawd xoB..... that was bad (I'm sayin that cause I didn't think of it myself).

Seasonal stuff up here? Ha! We have fiddlehead ferns in the spring, salmonberries, blueberries, wild strawberries & huckleberries in the summer, and a bunch of dead leaves in the fall.
Everything else is shipped in from who knows where.

Pie · 03-27-2006, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Beestie

A peach from somewhere other than Georgia or South Carolina is little more than a picture of a peach.

I don't know, Beestie. There are some darn amazing peaches here in Jersey. In August.

Trilby · 03-28-2006, 07:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Pie

I don't know, Beestie. There are some darn amazing peaches here in Jersey. In August.

Cute. you know what I wonder? How come women never say, "Well, Sally, I gotta tell ya, there's some damn fine bananas out today, if you catch my drift!" Why don't we ever do that?

Urbane Guerrilla · 03-29-2006, 11:55 PM

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Originally Posted by seakdivers

We have fiddlehead ferns in the spring, salmonberries, blueberries, wild strawberries & huckleberries in the summer, and a bunch of dead leaves in the fall.
Everything else is shipped in from who knows where.

You probably get your domesticated strawberries (just called "berries" around here) from us in Ventura County. First crop's just in, and the big crop comes in in late May. The Grade-A chocolate-dippers are the size of a baby's fist, and they have good flavor too, maybe not quite as intense as a wild strawberry but not the low-taste stuff we used to see in the seventies. We've gotten modest rain this season, nothing too savage -- heavy rains at the wrong time beat up strawberries, literally battering the fruit and rotting them on the plants, and flooding plants out of the fields.

We're wondering how to keep pests out of the berries with methyl bromide being phased out.

Urbane Guerrilla · 03-30-2006, 12:01 AM

Skunks, when I lived in Annapolis MD, I encountered a supermarket binful of oranges -- and guess how they spelled "navel." Yep. I thought that was a bit much even for Annapolis, and went to the bother of eyeballing several oranges looking for a little blue-inked anchor stamp. Maybe I should have looked in Bancroft Hall instead.

DucksNuts · 03-30-2006, 04:00 AM

Speaking of Bananas (and I have wondered the same Brianna).

I paid $5.99 per kilo tonite. Buggeration... I love Nanies!!

They are blaming the Cyclones, but seriously, that wont come into play for another few weeks.

Thieving bastards

DucksNuts · 03-30-2006, 04:02 AM

Pithy Euphemist ...thats being a tad generous isnt it??

chainsaw · 03-30-2006, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by seakdivers

oh gawd xoB..... that was bad (I'm sayin that cause I didn't think of it myself).

Seasonal stuff up here? Ha! We have fiddlehead ferns in the spring, salmonberries, blueberries, wild strawberries & huckleberries in the summer, and a bunch of dead leaves in the fall.
Everything else is shipped in from who knows where.

What the hell is a salmonberry?

Sounds icky.

xoxoxoBruce · 04-01-2006, 09:22 AM

Salmonberry is in the raspberry/blackberry family....very tasty. They are salmon colored (sort of) and not fishy.

03-05-2006, 10:13 PM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Spring / Fall prices We are getting close to spring so the world below the equator is getting close to fall harvest time. I guess that's why when I went to Pathmark (supermarket) tonight, they had peaches, plums, nectarines and two or three types of grapes for 99 cents/lb. Hell, at those prices, I could make my own booze. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-08-2006, 11:57 AM	#3
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	I bought some of these things called Honeybells--a hybrid orange. Ungodly expensive and shipped from Florida. They weren't so much juicy as they were water-y. No taste. I was sooooo disappointed. I had citrus regret for weeks. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

03-25-2006, 10:20 PM	#5
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Welcome to the Cellar, Spearmint Of Wrigley. Try not to gum up the works. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-30-2006, 12:01 AM	#11
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Skunks, when I lived in Annapolis MD, I encountered a supermarket binful of oranges -- and guess how they spelled "navel." Yep. I thought that was a bit much even for Annapolis, and went to the bother of eyeballing several oranges looking for a little blue-inked anchor stamp. Maybe I should have looked in Bancroft Hall instead. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

04-01-2006, 09:22 AM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Salmonberry is in the raspberry/blackberry family....very tasty. They are salmon colored (sort of) and not fishy. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-06-2006, 03:53 AM	#2
Skunks I thought I changed this. Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: western nowhere, ny Posts: 412	I love this time of year because organic navel oranges are under $1/lb, and the oranges themselves often weigh over a pound each. juicy.. mm.

03-25-2006, 04:55 PM	#4
Spearmint Of Wrigley Kinda New Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1	I love tomatoes...they are SO expensive in Spring (where I'm at) and SO much cheaper in the fall !

03-27-2006, 01:07 AM	#7
seakdivers Icy Queen Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Southeast Alaska Posts: 700	oh gawd xoB..... that was bad (I'm sayin that cause I didn't think of it myself). Seasonal stuff up here? Ha! We have fiddlehead ferns in the spring, salmonberries, blueberries, wild strawberries & huckleberries in the summer, and a bunch of dead leaves in the fall. Everything else is shipped in from who knows where.

03-30-2006, 04:00 AM	#12
DucksNuts Bitchy Little Brat Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 5,067	Speaking of Bananas (and I have wondered the same Brianna). I paid $5.99 per kilo tonite. Buggeration... I love Nanies!! They are blaming the Cyclones, but seriously, that wont come into play for another few weeks. Thieving bastards

03-30-2006, 04:02 AM	#13
DucksNuts Bitchy Little Brat Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 5,067	Pithy Euphemist ...thats being a tad generous isnt it??

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