Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> In article >,
> Goomba > wrote:
>
>> I'm so annoyed. The Kroger near me keeps foisting off celery with all
>> the leaves cut off. Not just the trimmed "celery hearts" but the regular
>> celery stalks too. I asked the produce man (not the manager) what
>> happened and he replied that they cut them off cause "no one wants to
>> pay for the leaves" or something along that line and some comment
>> implying they're useless. What?! I tried to explain to him that
>> they're very important, very flavorful and almost a must for my stock.
>>
>> Is this a new trend? I need to make it a point to speak to the manager
>> about this.
>
> Never thought much about it, but now that you mention it. . . .
> I don't think I get much in the way of tops until I'm in a layer or so.
> Are your stalks bagged or nekkid? If they're bagged, 10:1 they're
> coming from the supplier that way.
>
> I gotta pay more attention to that.
>
> (I've got some leaf celery [dried] that's pretty good. It actually has
> flavor.)
>
And also easy to grow either outdoors in warmer climes or indoors in
frosty ones. Can be found in most seedsmen catalogs as either "cutting"
or "leaf" celery. Been growing it for years but I still buy celery
stalks for use where you need that crunch. The local markets here are
like everywhere they buy most of their produce ready packaged for sale,
even the nekkid celery. Unfortunately, if you dehydrate celery stalks
they turn into something you could shoot out of a shotgun.