Alex Rast wrote:
> (sd) wrote :
> > (Alex Rast) wrote:
> >
> >> Grapes. No grapes today are worth even looking at. ... Everything you
> >> find are large, insipid waterbags.
> >
> >I've given up on grapes as merely packaged sugar water.
>
> I wonder why it is, in fact, given that there seems to be some consensus
> on this point, that grape growers don't wake up and start growing some
> better-tasting (hopefully seeded) grapes again.

I find quite a varied selection but one needs to remember that grapes
have a rather short window of opportunity, especially the less common
varieties, most have but one picking, some two at the most.... I tend
to buy more than I really want because I know that when I return two
weeks later most of the varieties will no longer be available The rest
of the year only imports are available so generally you'll find just
those that ship well... the more interesting grapes are usually more
fragile. And once picked grapes don't ripen further, they begin to
rot/ferment. For years I grew my own grapes. They would all ripen
within a week and had to be harvested immediately, before they'd begin
to rot and/or the birds got them. Then after I harvested them what was
I to do with a couple hundred pounds, couldn't even give them away...
within a week of harvest they would begin detaching from their stems, a
few days more and they'd go into the composter.

Geeze but some folks are so used to instant gratification that they
think everything they desire should always be within arms reach.


Sheldon