In article >,
bigwheel > wrote:

> Todd;1849654 Wrote:
> > On 07/15/2013 02:21 PM, bigwheel wrote:-
> > Guess the Eyetalian part of the family tree is not large enough to
> > develop a taste for eggplant. Never even tasted one till I was fully
> > grown. They always looked sorta weird.-
> >
> > Hi Big,
> >
> > My "Eyetalian part" would be my mom's side. Yours?
> >
> > There is a difference between fully grown and too old.
> > If you get them from a local farm, ask the farmer and
> > he will show you (as one did me) how to pick them.
> > Be careful, the buzzards have thorns! (At my
> > local farm, they go so quick, they never get too old.)
> >
> > The local farms said they would have some in a week
> > or two. I will be begging for advice on how to
> > cook them when that happens. I got the pressure
> > cooker down, but not the frying.
> >
> > Oh ya, and egg plant tastes like heck (not the
> > actual word I was thinking) when it is not grown
> > properly and sits on a shelf forever. Find a CSA farm.
> >
> > -T
> >
> > Maybe next year, I will try growing them.
>
> Never been to an egg plant farm. Think our horticulture folks are
> concentrating on growing guv'ment subsidized corn so Alfgore and Obie
> can waste it making ethanol to damage our cars. Wacky tobaccy seems to
> be other big cash crop in these parts.

The Emerald Triangle is just above me (Mendocino, and Humbolt Counties).
There isn't any income tax filed by growers, but it has been estimated
that the marijuana harvest is worth more than the California wine
harvest ($3 billion in 2012).

Funny how the government subsidizes crops that Cargill, and Archer
Daniels Midland uses, but not so much for vegetables that could keep
Americans healthy.
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