fruit

[redbird]

I ate the last nectarine for breakfast this morning, from the half-peck we had delivered eight days ago. There were some overripe bits, but enough good fruit to put in my yogurt. Half a peck had seemed plausible, somehow, when I was placing the order, and when it got here I looked at the bag and thought that this was way too many nectarines for two people, and even started looking up cake recipes. But cattitude and I happily ate them, one or two at a time, except for one I had to throw away yesterday because it had gotten overripe.

I ordered these on the perhaps-odd theory that I'm no good at selecting nectarines from a bin at the farmers market, and maybe the farm stand would do better, I like the Quebec strawberries they bring to the market. And it worked. I put them in a paper bag to ripen for a day, then pulled out two at random, ate them, and transferred the rest to a bowl on the kitchen counter.

Comments

[cmcmck]

I love that you are still using the peck measurement! :o)

[redbird]

The first time I saw half-peck bags of apples on the WhatsGood website, I went and looked up how much a peck is, because you don't see it very often, at least at retail. The only fruit that's commonly sold by volume is berries, and those containers are usually pints, quarts, or half-pints. Larger fruit, including apples as well as peaches, are generally sold by weight, at least for retail purposes.

[adrian_turtle]

Stop and Shop used to sell their cheap apples by the half peck, in October. I don't remember if they were priced by the bag or just "if you buy a whole discount bag of them, it costs $0.99/pound, but if you want to choose apples one at a time they cost $1.69/pound."

[bibliofile]

I've seen it used by fruit growers. Tree-Ripe Fruit Co. does mail order and ships in boxes by the peck for bigger fruit, by the pound for blueberries.

And of course apples at apple orchards. I wonder if produce distributors still work on these volume measures?

[kaffy_r]

I picked up some nectarines from Whole Foods a day or so ago, and finished eating one just before I sat down to read folks' posts. I was happily surprised that this bag of fruit was juicy and flavorful. It's always a crap shoot with fruit; sometimes I end up with woody and flavorless nectarines or peaches.

[otter]

yummy.

[bibliofile]

Yes, yum.