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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
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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Seeded watermelons are still available.
Do you actually go out anywhere? Because they've been everywhere for weeks now.
It is entirely possible to get a flavourful seedless watermelon, but you have to know what you're doing.
Tomatoes have actually gotten much better over the decades. In general I'd say that produce has in general gotten much better over the years in terms of taste.