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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on September 29, 2009, 02:10:08 PM
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Oh my.
The alimentary canal primitive:
mopinko (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-29-09 11:46 AM
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what do they do to peaches to make them keep? bought some in michigan last weekend from a little farmstand. i do not know how they have peaches 2 months after peach season. they are ok. texture is good, flavor is not much. so i am assuming they are picked green. and they taste a little salty. so do they dunk them or something?
if i had had any really good peaches this year, i wouldn't have even been tempted.
but i just didn't hit them.
got to think of something to do with them for dinner tonight, so they can get out of the way for the fresh picked apples that gawd intended us to be eating right now.
The wired gassy primitive, from the farmette up there in Wisconsin:
grasswire (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-29-09 01:16 PM
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1. maybe they aren't grown at the little farm stand
maybe they are getting them from a supplier, elsewhere. This does happen, ya know.
Uh-huh. Like at all those "farmers'" "markets" in Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire that the primitives patronize instead of their grocery stores, where the stuff comes from.....Florida.
The warped primitive, who knows a thing or two about tasting pharmaceuticals meant for patients:
Warpy (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-29-09 01:20 PM
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2. They pick them very green and store them cold and dark
When it's time to go to market, they just truck them in with an ethylene gas bath on the way.
This wouldn't give them a salty flavor, so I'm guessing either they were grown in an area with high mineral water or you're tasting something else.
Out of season peaches are not going to be at peak flavor, ever. You're better off using frozen or canned out of season than paying the premium price for cardboard.
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Uh-huh. Like at all those "farmers'" "markets" in Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire that the primitives patronize instead of their grocery stores, where the stuff comes from.....Florida.
Great point. Those New England DUmbasses never suspect the passion fruit and papaya they just bought at
the farmers' market may not have been grown at a local hippie commune.
I recently saw crates of sweet corn at a farmers' market here that were marked "Product of Delaware", which
is local if you disregard 700 or so miles.
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Great point. Those New England DUmbasses never suspect the passion fruit and papaya they just bought at the farmers' market may not have been grown at a local hippie commune.
I recently saw crates of sweet corn at a farmers' market here that were marked "Product of Delaware", which is local if you disregard 700 or so miles.
Oh, yeah.
"Farmers'" markets are a big thing, especially among the New England primitives.
The primitives imagine the stuff is grown locally by small farmers in overalls and calico bonnets, who live somewhere in the area.
Like Massachusetts produces oranges and pineapple on small farms.
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For Gods sake DUmmie. Just peel and cut them up, cover with a liberal coat of the evil white sugar and put them in the ice box for a couple of days.
I even used the word "liberal" and you can pretend the sugar came from Cuba.
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Uh........my Nana canned the damned things! Either halved or sliced and we ate 'em all year! Geez, how ignorant can you get? Peaches don't keep for more than a few days without getting soft. Besides, I always prefered the canned to the fresh anyway. The syrup on home-ade ice cream was the cat's meow!
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For Gods sake DUmmie. Just peel and cut them up, cover with a liberal coat of the evil white sugar and put them in the ice box for a couple of days.
I even used the word "liberal" and you can pretend the sugar came from Cuba.
Off topic. Funny how we're considered the "Peach State", yet you South Cackalackans produce more than we do. Little history behind it though, it wasn't "Peach" it was "Pitch", as in the pitch trees used by the natives. No, I have no clue what a "Pitch Tree" is. Just read a story about it in the Augusta Chronicle. Maybe Rockur can fill us in. He lives probably within 10 miles of me.
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Off topic. Funny how we're considered the "Peach State", yet you South Cackalackans produce more than we do. Little history behind it though, it wasn't "Peach" it was "Pitch", as in the pitch trees used by the natives. No, I have no clue what a "Pitch Tree" is. Just read a story about it in the Augusta Chronicle. Maybe Rockur can fill us in. He lives probably within 10 miles of me.
Pitch tree = pine tree....they would cut grooves in the trees and catch the pine resin much like they do for maple syrup. They also used to use pine tar for naval stores etc....and tupentine. That was big business along the coastal plane of SC.
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Pitch tree = pine tree....they would cut grooves in the trees and catch the pine resin much like they do for maple syrup. They also used to use pine tar for naval stores etc....and tupentine. That was big business along the coastal plane of SC.
...and almost extincted the Loblolly Pine population.
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In the northwest, "pitch" usually comes from a deceased ponderosa pine that most usually was flash burned in a forest fire. The stuff literally smells like a cross between gas and diesel. You can light it with a match. We use it for kindling to get our fires going.
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In the northwest, "pitch" usually comes from a deceased ponderosa pine that most usually was flash burned in a forest fire. The stuff literally smells like a cross between gas and diesel. You can light it with a match. We use it for kindling to get our fires going.
Pine knots are great fire starters, or, as we call them, kindling.
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In the northwest, "pitch" usually comes from a deceased ponderosa pine that most usually was flash burned in a forest fire. The stuff literally smells like a cross between gas and diesel. You can light it with a match. We use it for kindling to get our fires going.
Funny thing about trees and fire, some need fire to reproduce while others use it to cull the weak and diseased.
In the south the long leaf pine stays short and scubby when it first comes up. It looks more like a weed or some stunted something for a few years until it gets it's tap root established. While short, the fire sort of burns over it, then when the tap root is right, in short order it shoots up a long skinny pole to get above the fire. People used to burn out the swamps and pine forest to keep them healthy and free of insects, snakes, varmits etc....now you can't.
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and you can make prison hooch at home with them too :mental: