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27-08-2004, 10:14 AM

(Nick Maclaren) wrote in
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In article . 150,
Victoria Clare writes:
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| I had a party a week or so ago, and one of the participants brought
| with them two bags of supermarket Braeburns from New Zealand!
| Honestly! No doubt they'd been sitting in a cold store for months.
|
| I think I shall have to compost them. They don't even make good
| crumble.

In California, they are typically the BEST of the apples available
in a supermarket.

I'm sure the Braeburn is usually a fine apple.

But to import them from NZ right at the start of the UK apple season? No
apple is going to be at its best with that kind of treatment (and compared
with apples picked fresh from the tree).

Victoria
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gardening on a north-facing hill
in South-East Cornwall
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