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[pebblerocker]

New season apples are in the shops, hooray! It's hard to get through early summer when even the Granny Smiths are unappealing. I feel decidedly odd when I can't eat an apple every day. Now the lean time is over and apples are back, and as well the plums, peaches and nectarines are in season and smelling nice. It can't be long now until Golden Queen peaches come in...

Apricots, however, are still not worth buying. I sniff them every time I go shopping and they're never ripe and nice-smelling. They never became nice-smelling last year at all. I suspect that all apricot orchards have now replaced their trees with a new variety with very commercially-appealing yield and disease resistance properties and no flavour at all. Maybe next time I visit the city I can try the organics shop. There must be good apricot varieties around somewhere; dried apricots have a smell, after all.

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[dr-sponge.livejournal.com]

There are Sunrise and Pacific Rose around! I like Sunrise, can't stand Granny Smiths. And, I've been eating a lot of nice apricots (along with some crap ones). Need to get the seconds bruised ripe ones - very yummy. I've had an extended apricot season this year, as it starts earlier in Australia, and I ate a lot of apricots there...

[pebblerocker]

I have Sunrise apples and they're very nice. Don't like Pacific Rose as much, they tend to be too big and coarse and lack flavour, as well as having unattractive brown parts around the seeds. Granny Smiths are not my favourites but I find they do stay edible out of season.

There are no new season apples in the supermarket, I looked and all their apples were USA imported. Urgh...

[dr-sponge.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can't stand rose apples, but other people seem to like them. I never buy imported apples, apparently they are quite sweet? I'm hanging out for the new pear season...

I like sunrise because, in fruit shops at least, one can get little ones. Most of the nutritional value is in the skins I believe, and the ration of skin to insides is higher on smaller apples (so two small apples, beats one big apple). You're not one of these people who don't eat the skins? (I wouldn't think you would be). My grandmother was like that and I'd gasp in horror when she had a apple. (She also liked rose, so there you go).

[pebblerocker]

I haven't had an imported apple since I was 4. My parents gave me a USA Red Delicious and I was hyperactive for the rest of the day, having not eaten anything else out of the ordinary, so I stay away from them. Not to mention price, and why would anyone ship apples from America when they're in season here and fresher?

There aren't many things I take the skins off to eat, apart from bananas, avocado and bought citrus, though I can't quite handle kiwifruit skins and prefer to eat feijoas with a spoon if available. But when I was helping my flatmates make dinner, first night out of home, they assumed that I had never been taught how to cook AT ALL because I was so slow and clumsy trying to learn how to use a vegetable peeler. To me peeling vegetables is only for when you have to attempt to turn aged piggy scraps into something edible, not something I'd do more than a few times a year. And I pitied my flatmates for not knowing how to cook at the same time as they pitied me... in the 21st century, why would anyone peel and boil anything?

I like small fruit. I skipped buying oranges this week because they were twice the usual size. You can eat two small ones if that's what you need, but big ones are inconvenient. If you only want half of it the rest goes yucky.

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

I miss peaches. Even in the summer we only get California peaches and they're rarely good.

Apples are a different story, we have great apples all year, either imported or local-and-stored. I tried Honeycrisps for the first time this week. Yum, sweet but not too sugary, with an almost flowery smell.