Comments on: 'The Fresh Food People' bring you tired, woody asparagus http://www.syrupandtang.com/200811/the-fresh-food-people-bring-you-tired-woody-asparagus/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:41:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: brett http://www.syrupandtang.com/200811/the-fresh-food-people-bring-you-tired-woody-asparagus/comment-page-1/#comment-1356 brett Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:18:16 +0000 http://www.syrupandtang.com/?p=516#comment-1356 that incessant "fresh food" jingle playing while I search through their rotting produce is comical! An employee of this particular franchise told me that avocado was best when it was rock hard! I could go on...... I just refuse to shop there anymore. that incessant "fresh food" jingle playing while I search through their rotting produce is comical! An employee of this particular franchise told me that avocado was best when it was rock hard! I could go on…… I just refuse to shop there anymore.

]]> By: Anna http://www.syrupandtang.com/200811/the-fresh-food-people-bring-you-tired-woody-asparagus/comment-page-1/#comment-1355 Anna Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:06:17 +0000 http://www.syrupandtang.com/?p=516#comment-1355 Hrm... yes. I'm glad I have a great excuse to buy my fruit and veg from wholesalers so it's nicer. Cheaper too! And the flavour from it all... mmm. Hrm… yes. I'm glad I have a great excuse to buy my fruit and veg from wholesalers so it's nicer. Cheaper too! And the flavour from it all… mmm.

]]> By: Harry http://www.syrupandtang.com/200811/the-fresh-food-people-bring-you-tired-woody-asparagus/comment-page-1/#comment-1354 Harry Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:40:08 +0000 http://www.syrupandtang.com/?p=516#comment-1354 You guys wanna try buying "fresh" food at a supermarket in Paris. If you get home and your onions are not shrivelling and rotten on the inside, and your garlic contains more than grey dust, and your punnet of mushrooms isn't host to new (or is that prehistoric?) forms of life, then you consider yourself rather lucky. You guys wanna try buying "fresh" food at a supermarket in Paris. If you get home and your onions are not shrivelling and rotten on the inside, and your garlic contains more than grey dust, and your punnet of mushrooms isn't host to new (or is that prehistoric?) forms of life, then you consider yourself rather lucky.

]]> By: pea and pear http://www.syrupandtang.com/200811/the-fresh-food-people-bring-you-tired-woody-asparagus/comment-page-1/#comment-1351 pea and pear Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:01:10 +0000 http://www.syrupandtang.com/?p=516#comment-1351 Duncan, you should visit my local fresh food people if you want a real shock. In the produce section to a soundtrack of 'we are, we are the fresh food people' I go to grab a cucumber and my finger goes straight through it... urgh it is so rotten they had turned to mush!! The grapes are all American and the rockmelon have fruit flies circling them. And this is good day!! Fortunately a fruit market opened upstairs and I never have to eat that 'fresh food' again. Ali Duncan, you should visit my local fresh food people if you want a real shock. In the produce section to a soundtrack of 'we are, we are the fresh food people' I go to grab a cucumber and my finger goes straight through it… urgh it is so rotten they had turned to mush!! The grapes are all American and the rockmelon have fruit flies circling them. And this is good day!!

Fortunately a fruit market opened upstairs and I never have to eat that 'fresh food' again.

Ali

]]> By: Manggy http://www.syrupandtang.com/200811/the-fresh-food-people-bring-you-tired-woody-asparagus/comment-page-1/#comment-1350 Manggy Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:35:00 +0000 http://www.syrupandtang.com/?p=516#comment-1350 I was supposed to make an innuendo-y joke, but never mind! I don't want to be banned! I can't seem to recall if I've ever seen thick asparagus in these parts. Probably the ones fresh-packaged (!) by Dole-- though I wasn't able to tell if they were flaccid, ligneous twigs. I like to think they were perfect. The depressing part is we don't really have too many choices in terms of buying fresh asparagus (i.e., supermarket, maybe the farmers' market if you're lucky and they drove it in from cooler parts)-- but I'll have to report back on that. I was supposed to make an innuendo-y joke, but never mind! I don't want to be banned!
I can't seem to recall if I've ever seen thick asparagus in these parts. Probably the ones fresh-packaged (!) by Dole– though I wasn't able to tell if they were flaccid, ligneous twigs. I like to think they were perfect. The depressing part is we don't really have too many choices in terms of buying fresh asparagus (i.e., supermarket, maybe the farmers' market if you're lucky and they drove it in from cooler parts)– but I'll have to report back on that.

]]> By: elra http://www.syrupandtang.com/200811/the-fresh-food-people-bring-you-tired-woody-asparagus/comment-page-1/#comment-1349 elra Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:20:15 +0000 http://www.syrupandtang.com/?p=516#comment-1349 Oh dear, That asparagus look so terrible! That is why I don't go to Safeway! I am sure you have a better market than Safeway, no? Oh dear,
That asparagus look so terrible! That is why I don't go to Safeway! I am sure you have a better market than Safeway, no?

]]> By: kathryn http://www.syrupandtang.com/200811/the-fresh-food-people-bring-you-tired-woody-asparagus/comment-page-1/#comment-1348 kathryn Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:06:50 +0000 http://www.syrupandtang.com/?p=516#comment-1348 It's an all too familiar sight Duncan. I wonder how many people buy, to try something new and then don't like it - because it's woody and bitter. I often marvel at the piles of "vine-ripened" truss tomatoes which aren't actually ripe. Surely it's misleading advertising? The fresh food people . . . hmmmm. It's an all too familiar sight Duncan. I wonder how many people buy, to try something new and then don't like it – because it's woody and bitter.

I often marvel at the piles of "vine-ripened" truss tomatoes which aren't actually ripe. Surely it's misleading advertising?

The fresh food people . . . hmmmm.

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