I think this is why supermarkets are able to get away with selling poor quality produce, despite their claims to the opposite. Most consumers have little knowledge of seasons, let alone the true taste of a product or how it is grown. Take Cox's apples a popular British variety, well like most apples ready to pick in September, we are now in February and i've noticed the marketing has changed from 'fresh' to 'best of british'
Can't beat fresh Victoria's straight from the tree in summer. A lot of growers now are picking them too early and the crop is too small, too green, suggestion instead of thinning the crop out they are going for volume, problem is you also loose some of that flavour. I think they call it backward picking in the trade.
Yes mate..It's all cold storage.. I work in a set 5c, be it summer or winter. It's in and out within hours.. I spend half my time loading it on trailers with my truck . i set at 3c. on the wagons..Its -19 for the frozen. I work the 2-10, and everthing has to be out by 10 for the next day..It's a short time scale. I can't speak about your beef about delivery times from where it comes from.But we literally work within hours, in and out...It's that tight.
Me too, until it started messing up my liver so stopped taking it. Liver recovered. I've had two gout attacks in my life. In my case it is genetics not diet, I naturally have a high level of uric acid. (I'm full of piss). My first gout attack Dr. Thought it was a fracture in toe bone. Second one... Holy mother of Rupert the bear that was bad. I couldn't put a sock on because it hurt. Even sitting under a ceiling fan and the movement of air on my foot was excruciating. Two and half years since last attack... 2 years since got off that nasty allopurinol that was destroying my liver. I find it strange Fruit sets off @luvgonzo gout. A lot of fruit is used as a natural remedy against gout, such as cherries and pineapples. Alcohol, shell fish, refined sugars and red meats are a far more common trigger... But every one is different.
