I want my fruit back!!!
June 09, 2008
Yesterday I was ever so leisurely leaning on the rail of our kitchen balcony and eating peaches and thinking about how smoothies are really just the diluted adult version of baby food. And at approximately the same time it dawned upon me what the taste of the peach in my hand reminded me of — mango-scented soap!
This was the last straw! Although I spend half a year in Africa (Algiers) when I was small and bloody well know how bananas, oranges, dates etc. should taste like, I could still force myself to ignore the fact that gradually in Slovenia (and the rest of Europe) they started tasting like mere shadows of what their taste really is.
I could kind of cope with the attack of the watery (straw|blue|...)berry invasion some years after that, by dipping them in sugar.
Then came apples and pears that tasted more of diluted watermelons with soymilk then anything else. At that stage I grew slightly annoyed...
But, this... this is just *wrong*!!!. When I bite into a fruit, I expect that it tastes of it! And right now I'm fed up with it! Tasteless fruit no more for me! I don't care if it looks sad enough to look emo bio, eco or whatever the buzzword is now! I WANT MY FRUIT TO TASTE FRUITY !!! (and not in the "weird" way)
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Comments closed
I will close the comments for this post, because it became some sort of a spam Mecca.
tasty fruit
Sadly i don't buy that much fruit from the supermarket anymore because i agree it has become tasteless and not even close to worth the outrageous prices. I am lucky enough to have a lot of open space and grow a lot of fruits and veggies for myself which are far far better than anything sold supermarket wise and mass produced.
Fruits Are Healthy No More
It is all the same. Fruits everywhere have become tasteless and so over priced. Markets in India get apples from Australia and New Zealand. They are gigantic in size and tasteless. But they look very appetizing. I think we will have to stick to eating vitamins and mineral supplements to survive. There is nothing natural and real in our fruits anymore. I am sure it will only get worse with the passage of time.
Spam comments
Hmmm, it seems I've struck on either a very smart spambot or someone who has too much time on their hands, who put semi-on-topic posts with URLs pointing at commercial sites.
In case this does not cease soon, I'll be forced to delete some of the comments and tighten the security.
On it
Yes, it really seems to be the case. I've already deleted some of them and will in the near future try to cripple those spammy bastards as much as I can.
I feel your pain, especially
I feel your pain, especially ever since I came back from South America, where fruit actually still tastes like fruit. Although it sometimes looks like something that's fallen down a supply truck and been rolled around for a couple of days on a dirt road before the vendor decided to pick it up and put it up for sale on their stall.
*sniffle*
I can live with exotic fruit tasting like unripe barfed up versions of themselves, but when it comes to native fruit it's just too much!
Although even my parents say that when we were still considered "third world" we got bananas etc. directly from Africa and they tasted incredibly better then they do now when we get them over Rotterdam or Hanover — thank you United/Chiquita Brands! Thank you bloody much!!!
strange, when i eat apples
strange, when i eat apples here taste like oranges.
See?
See? Nothing tastes like it should anymore!! O_o
I totally understand what
I totally understand what you are feeling. I live in Estonia and I think we have a pretty similar situation in here as in Slovenia. It is really depressing.
Global
I don't know ...I have a feeling it's a global phenomenon. A study showed that the USA kids spit out beans when they get freshly cooked beans and other vegetables, because they're used to only getting them from tin cans and the taste is too natural for them.