$3.00/pound ? whatever happened to kilograms that replaced the 'pound'
(weight) in circa 1970 ?
Has Brutus Costello or Honest Johnny been tampering with the systems again ?

cheers, helene

"Chookie" wrote in message
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"Ray Drouillard" wrote:

I wonder who did the study. I wonder what veggies were used. Radishes
and lettuce might be difficult, but I have yet to see a store-boughten
peach that comes even close to one that was picked ripe from the tree
(as opposed to being picked green and ripened after being severed from
its source of sugar). The same sort of goes for tomatoes. It isn't as
much an issue of vine-ripening, but there is a taste that comes with
home grown tomatoes that is missing in the store-boughten fare. Perhaps
buying some of the $3.00/pound premium tomatoes would fix that, but I
wouldn't bet on it.

I wuldn't either -- I've paid the premium for truss tomatoes and, while
they
taste better than the cheap ones, they have nothing on home-grown for
flavour.
OTOH I can fully believe that a home-grown iceberg lettuce doesn't taste
much
better than a shop one. A home-grown cos lettuce outshines a shop one,
though
-- even when grown under far-from-ideal conditions, ie with me as
gardener!

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