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What’s your favorite locally-grown fruit or vegetable?
Asked at Massachusetts Street on September 2, 2008
“Tomatoes. I eat them like apples. I can’t get enough of them.”
“Summer squash. It just isn’t very good if you don’t buy it local.”
“Corn on the cob. It is sweet and yellow and every now and then you get a worm.”
“Tomatoes.”
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Comments
coltrane 4 years, 8 months ago
fresh corn, apples, asparagus, zuchinni, squash
H_Lecter 4 years, 8 months ago
Harley,That's one no one would eat...probably tastes like dried prunes.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 4 years, 8 months ago
Very politically incorrect OTS question.
dajudge 4 years, 8 months ago
chicken livers!
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 4 years, 8 months ago
Sarah Palin will pry your Klondike bar from your cold dead fingers.
not_dolph 4 years, 8 months ago
Sven
coolmom 4 years, 8 months ago
corn for sure.
snap_pop_no_crackle 4 years, 8 months ago
I just knew that somebody was gonna go there.....
dr_k 4 years, 8 months ago
poison apples
sunflower_sue 4 years, 8 months ago
Tomatoes. Can't get enough of the bruchetta right now. And sweet corn should always be local and should always have worms!! (It also has to be early with the kernels not too big. And it must be a super-sweet variety.)
snap_pop_no_crackle 4 years, 8 months ago
Klondike Bars!
sunflower_sue 4 years, 8 months ago
Brusssssssssschetta! R_I, I threw in some extra esses, just for you.
lianne 4 years, 8 months ago
Ted Grinter's sweet corn!
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 4 years, 8 months ago
jonas,I'll be your friend...
ms_canada 4 years, 8 months ago
Well, our locally grown fruit is limited. We do have some good apple trees, mine in the back yard had about 3000 little guys this year. We have raspberries and strawberries in the garden, but across the street on the river bank the chokecherries and saskatoons grow wild. chokecherries make wonderful pancake syrup and saskatoon pie is heavenly. My husband is nuts about corn and cucumbers. I like tomatoes and zucchini and yummy green beans. There are a number of market gardens near our house with lots of veg.
idarastar 4 years, 8 months ago
The FREE pears from down the street are excellent!I'm also in love with the $2 watermelons from Wakarusa Valley.Any greens from Hoyland Farm (spinach, kale, arugula).Tomatoes and bell peppers from Moon on the Meadow.Mint from my patio. :-) Tomatoes and bell peppers are growing as well.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 4 years, 8 months ago
autie,Did you limit? I had a light day.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 4 years, 8 months ago
sue, "Bruchetta"? Do you actually mean "Bruschetta"? (pronounced brus'ket'ta; the "sch" is pronounced as it is in "school").You probably use the Missouri-fied bastardization "brus Shet' ta." Not only does this make the cook look like a fool, it shows the lack of culinary knowledge. it insults the person who knows how to pronounce it correctly being served the fare by someone with an incorrect pronunciation.The word bruschetta comes from the Roman word "bruscare," which means to roast over coals, or to toast. It has become a running joke between my friends and me. the cook serves it, and then we wait and cringe. It never fails.Knowing how to pronounce a dish is the bare minimum of requirements for a cook to be able to explain, offer, and serve it at their house.
Bone777 4 years, 8 months ago
Hemp leaves...
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 4 years, 8 months ago
"would a Yuppie put delicious sausage gravy on top of bruschetta?" -T_O_B.Well sweetcheeks, In the Abruzzo region of Italy, bruschetta is made with pork products and spices encased in pig vesicles that are aged and then the paste spread on open slices of bread and toasted. Sounds kinda like sausage gravy on a biscuit.
jonas 4 years, 8 months ago
informed: I recall we spent an entire day around the topic of the pronunciation of bruchetta, in response to a rather pretentious LTE about the term. The writer, pretension aside, did have the backbone to come into our hostile arena and defend himself admirably, though. /he never answered my myspace friend request, though. I cried.
jonas 4 years, 8 months ago
I thought you already were, Renaldo.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 4 years, 8 months ago
Informed, Remember that nobody likes to pronounce bruschetta. Nobody. The other bruschetta pronouncers' hurt you, sometimes very badly. First you pronounce bruschetta because your father wants you to. Then you pronounce bruschetta to get the girls. If you keep on pronouncing bruschetta, you do it for scholarships, and to get the girls. Then you pronounce bruschetta for the money and the girls. Then you get to just listen to bruschetta being pronounced, and that's fun. But nobody likes to pronounce bruschetta. Nobody.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 4 years, 8 months ago
jonas, Yes i am.Just didn't want to see any tears, but then I did.That downpour wasn't rain, those were God's tears of joy that McCain picked Sarah Palin.
snap_pop_no_crackle 4 years, 8 months ago
R_I, that's a classic. lolz!
mom_of_three 4 years, 8 months ago
Bought some apples and cantelope from the farmer's market. They were both so delicious and you can't buy flavor like that from the store. We always buy corn local, and we found lots of worms from one particular vendor, but we just cut off the ends, and all was good. Two of my kids eat tomatoes like apples, and they always prefer local.
tangential_reasoners_anonymous 4 years, 8 months ago
It's sooooo hard to choose, given the myriad varieties, many listed in blue, above.
jonas 4 years, 8 months ago
Oh, and sorry, informed, for wearying you with a tale you witnessed. So hard to remember the roll call on the random past occurances, ya'know. I's so happy, I's making friends!
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 4 years, 8 months ago
T_O_B,I love how "bruschetta" yuppie people call other people "bruschetta" yuppies in order to not be looked upon as a "bruschetta" yuppie themselves. Or some "bruschetta" yuppie thing like that. Bruschetta yuppie people.The word bruschetta comes from the Roman word "bruscare," which means to roast over coals, or to TOAST. You call it a toasted biscuit, others call it bruschetta.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 4 years, 8 months ago
elitists?Somethin green. like arugula?
coltrane 4 years, 8 months ago
corn
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