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I'm also a fan of Riverford potatoes and veg. Really flavourful.


Siduhe Wrote:

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> heartblock Wrote:

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> > Riverford organic veg box. The carrots are also

> > tasty.

>

> Agreed. Everytime I run out of Riverford potatoes

> and have to top up, am always surprised how

> tasteless supermarket potatoes are.

My family were fruiterers and greengrocers. My grandad was a costermonger with a horse and a cart load of peas or cabbages. We used to go to the market and try before we bought a pallet of tomatoes etc .. if we didn't like eating it we didn't buy it. The fruit and veg seemed better years ago. You would get things in season grown in earth, not all these hydroponically grown stuff. We used to have to wash all the soot off the celery, it would turn up two foot long with lovely leaves on. I used to enjoy boiling a bag of beetroots.


POTATOES: We would sell whites - maris pipers mainly, could be replaced with a maris peer equally as fluffy, chippy, potatoey! NOW they sell inferior waxy varieties, melody, harmony etc ... We would sell desiree as a waxy one, and a king edward for a roaster! We would try boiling, chipping and roasting before we bought 100 sacks.

APPLES: I can't find lovely english ones anymore, they used to be tasty the Discoverys and Worcesters!

PLUMS: we would sell English Victorias and greengages ....

The really big tasty ITALIA grapes, had a pip in, but were almost as big a plum so it didn't matter much.


I rely on lots of imported goods for my own consumption, but I try to buy seasonal.

A few weeks ago I saved four plastic punnets of supermarket plums from perdition, a couple of hours before the end of their best-before-end day. They were still bone hard. Two of them I left in a sunny position, and the other two I put in the fridge. A week or two later the ones left out were still hard, but the ones in the fridge were soft and juicy and ready for eating.


My best guess is that the ones in the fridge benefitted from the ripening effect of some ethylene in there, which might have come from some apples or pears or maybe a half-eaten banana. So I'm now experimenting with another punnetful, bought on 22 May. As of yesterday, left in the sunny place, they were still hard. So I added a couple of prunes and wrapped them all in a plastic bag. More news later. I hope I haven't offended or traumatised them.

I brought the basics one week and they were tasty to my surprise bought Jersey last week no taste

When I can I go to Lewisham market ?1 bowel went last week cherries, strawberry, Kent potatoes all lovely some of cherries were a bit ripe but a big bowel for a ?1 can not go wrong and if you have bird table put that fruit out for them

Gaynor

stringvest Wrote:

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> My family were fruiterers and greengrocers. My

> grandad was a costermonger with a horse and a cart

> load of peas or cabbages. We used to go to the

> market and try before we bought a pallet of

> tomatoes etc .. if we didn't like eating it we

> didn't buy it. The fruit and veg seemed better

> years ago. You would get things in season grown

> in earth, not all these hydroponically grown

> stuff. We used to have to wash all the soot off

> the celery, it would turn up two foot long with

> lovely leaves on. I used to enjoy boiling a bag of

> beetroots.

>

> POTATOES: We would sell whites - maris pipers

> mainly, could be replaced with a maris peer

> equally as fluffy, chippy, potatoey! NOW they sell

> inferior waxy varieties, melody, harmony etc ...

> We would sell desiree as a waxy one, and a king

> edward for a roaster! We would try boiling,

> chipping and roasting before we bought 100 sacks.

> APPLES: I can't find lovely english ones anymore,

> they used to be tasty the Discoverys and

> Worcesters!

> PLUMS: we would sell English Victorias and

> greengages ....

> The really big tasty ITALIA grapes, had a pip in,

> but were almost as big a plum so it didn't matter

> much.

>

> I rely on lots of imported goods for my own

> consumption, but I try to buy seasonal.



Stringvest just reading this my mouth is watering!! Beetroots, potatoes, plums, oh my!!

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