"Harold Walker" wrote in message
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"Pam Moore" wrote in message
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On Wed, 18 May 2005 13:58:05 GMT, "graham" wrote:

My local supermarket (in Calgary) often has Dutch ones! The cost of
flying
them that far must be horrendous!

When I was in Canada 2 years ago (Vancouver to Calgary) we were amazed
that we seldom saw a tomato in any hotel or restaurant. We were told
that they are very expensive because most are exported to USA! What
is the world playing at? LOL

Pam in Bristol

The Yanks were/are suckers enough to pay the high prices for them...I
bought a single tomato to 'check 'em out'....not even good enough for
fried tomatoes...H

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My wife and I visited friends in Atlanta , Ga. U.S.A. in 1980.
They took us to a Fruit Market. It was colossal. In the open air it was
ten times bigger than anything I've seen in Old Blighty. Durban, Sth Africa,
or India.
In Atlanta all the produce was perfect, ripe and fresh from the fields and
'orchards'.
The Market was so big they had proper parking lots nearby with guides
stationed at vantage points to guide you where to park, and you travelled in
to the Market area on long wooden side-seat multi trolleys towed by
specially- built gay-painted tractors.
In the Market, long lines of large stalls with slanted-backwards shelves
groaning under the finest fresh produce made the mind boggle. There was no
"shouting their wares", you just chose what you wanted and the service was
impeccable and pleasant.
Those Southerners sure know how to live!.
( On another tack we ate at a place where you pay five dollars and down the
middle of the massive hall stands two very long rows of tables groaning
under every food known to man.
My host had, on a plate over a foot in diameter, - piled high, - a
massive heap of frogs legs. he scoffed the lot and went back for 'seconds'!.
Young lasses circled the tables topping up the vase-sized tumblers with iced
tea or coffee.
My wife , seven stone and a half in weight and five foot seven in height
opted for Black Gateaux for "afters", but when it came neither she or I
could eat half of it, so enormous was the helping.
er,....-- Sorry!, - I've wandered off-topic......
Doug.

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