On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:59:26 -0600, Melba's Jammin'
> wrote:

>In article >,
> Janet > wrote:
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>> In article >,
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>It makes sense to me, too, Janet. E.g., the same varietal apple tastes
>different depending on where its grown. The Honeycrisps grown in
>Washington state taste not quite the same as the ones grown here where
>they were developed. We just returned from Hawaii where the
>pineapples were incredibly delicious -- I don't know if I'll find one
>like them here.

Barb, I am sorry that we could not visit. Just a bad/busy week for me
and with company, but I do hope you come back again.

So...The reason that pineapples taste so good here, and if you get
bananas that are extra good- is fruit that is allowed to ripen as
long as it wants, on its mother plant, just simply tastes better.
That's nature's design. Avocados that fall to the ground and are
picked up the next morning are the same. They are mature and ready to
leave the mother plant.

To ship pineapples and bananas, that fruit is cut ahead of its perfect
maturation time and shipped green so it travels better. So when you
buy the fruit at a store and it looks pretty, it may have traveled
thousands of miles, and partially ripened in transit. It can't
possibly taste the same.

aloha,
Cea
(Kona coffee farmer who also grows pineapples, bananas and avocados)