Wayne wrote on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:32:22 GMT:

>> Andy wrote on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:31:38 -0500:
>>
>>> Who shops using grocery delivery?
>>
>>> I saw a grocery delivery truck pull into my neighbor's
>>> driveway a couple weeks ago.
>>
>>> I'm good at on-line shopping my ACME supermarket for ideas.
>>> Also have a few other local market "coupon" pages out of
>>> curiosity.
>>
>>> I've never bought food over www but that IS an interesting
>>> option.
>>
>>> I don't think I want an ACME anybody employee picking out my
>>> steak.
>>
>>> You?
>>
>> It's hard to imagine being so busy that I would have someone
>> else select meat or vegetable produce for me. A particular
>> example is bananas where I select 4 or 5 with colors ranging
>> from completely green to nearly complete yellow to allow
>> ripening. I'd never buy melons, pears or kiwis without
>> prodding them.
>>
> So *you're* the one whose been prodding those melons! :-)

LOL, but what's your advice on melon selection? Mine is not completely
infallible but the melon should give slightly if pushed at the stem end.
I've seen people shaking them and listening to the sound made when
tapping with knuckles but those don't give *me* any useful information.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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