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Default (2007-09-11) New survey on the RFC site: Grocery shopping

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:36:21 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>Andy wrote:
>>
>> >

>> I LOVE grapes! But I've never seen concord grapes for sale, ever.
>>
>> There was an interesting food TV program about them. Some section of New
>> York (near or around Buffalo?) where they only grow, the farmers formed a
>> co-op that makes up the Welches concord grape jelly company.

>
>They were very common around here. I don't know if there will be any this
>year. There used to be a Welches plant in a city near here and it process a
>lot of concord grapes for juice and jelly, but it was shut down... don't
>you love the global economy and free trade. There was a government relief
>program that paid the grape farmers to rip out the concord vines and roots.
>There is one farm that has facilities to make juice so there are probably
>still some concords around. Personally, I never liked concord grapes.
>Eating them is too much like sucking on eye balls. You bite through the
>skin to get at the juicy, chewy inside and then have to spit out the skin.
>I'll take Thompson seedless over concord any day.


if you're good at it you can pop the little buggers out of the skin
into your mouth. just try to think of something other than eyeballs,
like testicles.

your pal,
blake