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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  • We store most fruit in the fridge and take it out slowly. This summer has been awful for bananas, as the heat has made them ripen quickly. Pears are tricky to get just at the right time. I wonder if a lot of it is down to the weather and in winter warm kitchens. I remember when we lived in a house without central heating and a larder for a while, the fruit kept a long while in the larder.

  • when we lived in a house without central heating and a larder for a while, the fruit kept a long while in the larder.

    I remember our family pantry - a tiny walk-in cupboard. We had apples but little else, as it was a few years after the war, but they tasted much nicer than supermarket fruit.

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