"ChattyCathy" > wrote in message
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> Dora wrote:
>>
>> I ask for a sample (e.g., a grape to test for sweetness) which they're
>> very happy to give. That's the cost of doing business. I buy the bag
>> I've sampled from. I've turned down a purchase only once because the
>> grapes were sour.
>
> But you *ask*. Therein lies the difference (IMHO, of course)
>
>

Maybe where you live people work for free, in the US there is rarely someone
nearby just hanging around to ask (except for the Streak) because labor is
too expensive to have someone just standing by the grapes doing nothing so
an occasional customer can ask May I? Most shoppers don't taste, most just
grab without looking. The latest craze is to display the grapes and
cherries in those somewhat attractive perforated zipper bags (the morons are
thinking, hey, free reusable bags, the pinheads don't notice the holes),
that's to cheat the customers into buying old produce that's already rotting
off it's stems... when you bring that bag home a good percentage in the bag
are loosies and already rotted, the ones you'd not have picked to buy. I
don't buy grapes or cherries that are in those bags and neither should you.
I pick out the decent ones and those in a different plastic bag and leave
the crap behind When stores are selling a lot of rotted crap, and
especially at those outrageous prices, folks have every right to pick,
choose, refuse, and especially taste. Yoose anti-tasters are either
goody-two shoes liars or simpletons, put that on your survey.

Anyway, in the US there is no shortage of food, certainly not that folks
tasting a few pieces of fruit would matter... in the US the problem is not
what to eat, the problem is what not to eat.