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echinosum writes:
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| Those big black plums are grown in places like southern spain, and in
| Chile (centred on Santiago, at least 800km N of the region with an
| English-like climate). When properly ripe (so rare to find them like
| that here, but I've been in Chile in late summer/autumn a couple of
| times and got fully ripe ones) they are one of the most delicious
| fruits on the planet. But I really think you have no chance in even a
| 2003-strength Norfolk summer.

Well, I wouldn't rate them that highly - but that is a matter of taste!
The UK supermarket versions of most imported fruit are pale shadows of
what they can be, for the reason you give, and that they need to be
picked underripe for transport.

| If you want a super-delicious plum that can be grown in England,
| needing a good summer to ripen it, try Coe's Golden Drop.

Or Cambridge gage, or ....


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.