On 4/18/2010 5:28 PM, Mark Thorson wrote:
> zxcvbob wrote:
>>
>> The selection of plain frozen vegetables at the grocery stores is
>> getting smaller and smaller because they are being pushed out by
>> "microwave ready" bags of vegetables. One of my favorite frozen vegs is
>> french cut green beans (they are great in stirfry) but most of the
>> stores have stopped selling them altogether to make room for microwave
>> bags of peas or broccoli or whatever (in addition to the regular bags of
>> peas and broccoli that haven't totally gone away yet.) It's also
>> getting hard to find frozen okra that's not already breaded.
>
> A related topic is bagged salad greens. On America's Heartland
> yesterday, they said pre-washed, pre-cut bagged vegetables
> went from nothing 15 years ago to being 70% of the lettuce
> market today.
>
> I'm old. I remember when potatoes had dirt on them.

They still do if you buy them from the right place. We just used up the
last of the potatoes I bought from a local farm last fall.