A moan about supermarket fruit

Every week, I buy what looks like a delicious bowl of healthy fruit. Several days later, it's either hard as a bullet or full of tiny annoying flies. If I want to eat fruit immediately, I'm forced to buy expensive, 'ready to eat' fruits. When did this happen?? For decades, I bought and ate fruit immediately - sometimes snaffling a piece or two on the way home from the supermarket [does anyone else do this, with fruit and pastries?]. You almost have to babysit pears and plums for example - I'll swear they wink at each other, before slumping into an unhealthy-looking puddle. The only ones who don't mind are birds, who love my cast-off grapes, nectarines, plums and bananas.

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  • Apples and pears are supposed to be able to be stored for a few months. I'd rather have a British apple thats been stored properly that one flown from the other side of the world.

    I think people need to start thinking seasonally about fruit again and not expect strawberries at xmas for example, they will have been picked unripe and flown from somewhere far away and then allowed to "ripen", or go red, but they taste of nothing.

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