What's wrong with my nectarines?
Posted by yabbitgirl on Oct 18, 2008 · Member since Apr 2006 · 14266 posts
I bought a basket of nectarines which looked fine, a bit hard but I thought they would ripen slowly.
Instead, though they looked ok on the outside, the flesh was all brown and bruised-like around the seed. The last one turned black on the outside!!
What's up with that?
It's not nectarine season.
They're cursed.
Most helpful, thanks guys. ::)
That was a question asked for information.
Sorry, Yabbit. I honestly don't know what could be wrong with them. Could the tree they were picked from have a disease? It's kind of creepy.
I hear there's a real nasty strain of nectarine cancer going around.
That was an answer! I've found stone fruit out of season is just bad. They don't ripen right and often go from rock to rot.
50 points to rabidchild. I found out they were flown in from Argentina. Bang goes the old carbon footprint. Apparently cold storage on green fruit will do that.
Blerg. :P
that has happened to me also...now I know why. ;)b
that has happened to me also...now I know why. ;)b
Whew! I'm norra lone!
BTW THHF, I love your subnick. Me two.
that has happened to me also...now I know why. ;)b
Whew! I'm norra lone!
BTW THHF, I love your subnick. Me two.
I think veg web is filled with autumn lovers! :)>>> :)>>>
Although it makes me want to cook/bake far too much.
50 points to rabidchild. I found out they were flown in from Argentina. Bang goes the old carbon footprint. Apparently cold storage on green fruit will do that.
Blerg. :P
Can I cash in my points for an irrelevant, sarcastic answer to be used later?
Mais of course! This IS vegweb, after all! ^-^
I just had one of those imported Nectarines.
Had to be the worst piece of fruit I ever tasted.
Need to stick with the in season fruit and if I go local here.
Will be apples and pears. Seems to be the most popular around where I am.
I just had one of those imported Nectarines.
Had to be the worst piece of fruit I ever tasted.
Need to stick with the in season fruit and if I go local here.
Will be apples and pears. Seems to be the most popular around where I am.
*Sighs in commiseration*...I know. Here in winter you have a choice of mealy, tasteless apples, watery, tasteless pears or pretty-good oranges.
I keep waiting for the pomegranates but they don't seem to want to show up this year. The few I've seen looked battered, like they'd been thrown off a train.
A few times in the last few weeks, my store has brought in a (nice, but) bubbly demo lady to give free samples of the imported Californian stonefruit (mostly the nectarines, but also plums). The spiel is that they're 'tree-ripened', so they have all possible flavour, but remain very (very) firm. (From my experience) You CAN let them soften in the fruit bowl but they'll go stringy as much as soft. ::) :-\
My ecological conscience feels whorish at buying fruit imported from such a long way. But I love good stonefruit... and because my country's best is exported, we haven't had noteworthy local stonefruit in years. Hell, it feels like a decade since. :( So I bought some of these CA nectarines. And they were....... weird, but good! Firm-on-the-edge-of-crunchy (yeah, the lady said you can eat them like an apple if you wanna)... but quite nicely tasty. I guess they developed and grew a particularly transportable hybrid or something. ???
blood oranges possibly?
blood oranges possibly?
WANT.
blood oranges possibly?
WANT.
I've only seen blood oranges once here, and they were sooo expensive. Which is weird because I think they come from like Egypt, which is not that far from Spain as the ibis flies.
iv never had one before, but some lady was eating one and i had asked what it was...
it sorta creeped me out :P
They taste just like an ordinary orange. But they're still super cool. Blood orange juice is pretty! I'd love to make sorbet out of it, or something like that. :)>>>