Compared with 30 or 40 years ago, we have year-round access to an abundance of relatively cheap produce. And we have it because the produce has been bred for shipping, regularity, and longevity on the shelf. In many cases, that came at the cost of flavour. Most tomatoes on the shelf at Safeway don’t taste like much of anything.
Or take watermelons. You used to only be able to get them a few weeks of the year, they were huge and unwieldy, and full of black seeds you had to spit out. Now you can get them for half the year, they’re smaller and more convenient to store, they have no seeds - and their flavour is much weaker.
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Last edited by CliffFletcher; 07-21-2025 at 10:22 AM.
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