November 10, 2010

but where are the berries?

Can someone who is smart help me out a little with a question that has been bothering me?

So, we all know that organic is best right? Sometimes? Because some organic companies use tobacco for a pesticide and cover everything in it instead of chemicals right? okay, cool, just wanted to make sure we were on the same page. So, when I go to the grocery store, and I see the rows and rows of bright red tomatoes, and fluffy lettuce, and sometimes too squishy avocados and chalky grapes and especially the berry section that makes no sense to me because you could always get something super good there, or something really bad?

Anyways, my thoughts are: are they using ethanol to make the tomatoes ripe later in the year so that they can sell tomatoes all year round? what is in season? what does BEING in season mean for a rural town in Idaho where nothing grows (ironic statement of the year) but barely potatoes and everything has to be shipped from all over the place? Am I better off buying cans and frozen stuff forever? But the tomatoes are so pretty! they are! what do I do?!? AND SOME vegetables can be grown in bulk in greenhouses and I think many are (for control factors) so what does THAT mean? How does that add in? which is which and where does it all come from? I need to know people.

It's bothering me.
The tomatoes are looking stepford wifeish.
And every week it's all I can do not to buy strawberries and forget about the raspberries.

AND frozen fruit is only good in smoothies! if you let it defrost it becomes a mush of mush!
what now?

1 comments:

Ariana said...

Ethanol goes in your gas tank...ethylene gas is used to make tomatoes turn red even though they aren't really ripe. ;-)
I think frozen stuff totally counts as in season if it was picked when it was in season.
But then again, it's always summer somewhere. hmm

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