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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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[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.