On 8/17/2014 3:53 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 8/17/2014 4:06 PM, Janet Wilder wrote:
>> On 8/17/2014 2:50 PM, sf wrote:
>>> On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 15:44:11 -0400, Nancy Young
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a bumper crop of green bell peppers growing right now.
>>>> I assume they'll turn a color if I leave them on long enough.
>>>
>>> Are you going to wait and see what happens?
>>>
>>>
>> They should turn into red bell peppers. Red bell peppers are simply
>> riper green ones.
>
> I really don't know how the subject came up at work, but I
> said something along the line that green peppers turned red
> or whatever when they ripened. The two people I was chatting
> with almost took my head off. They will not!! Green Peppers
> are Green!
>
> That was before we had the internet to defend ourselves.
> (laugh) So I let it drop after saying Don't you ever notice
> some green peppers have red shoulders? and changing the
> subject to something I suppose they didn't feel VERY
> PASSIONATELY about.
>
> nancy
>

Many years ago, I was an out of work single mom needing to feed three
children. I took a job at a local farm market, open three days a week,
where they sold fruit and veggies. The owner would go to some big
market in Philadelphia, IIRC, and get produce there. Most of the
peppers would come in with red shoulders. Probably because they were
cheaper.

I got paid in cash, under the table and cost for my produce and I always
looked for the reddest green peppers as they were so much sweeter and
tastier.

I schlepped boxes of produce to people's cars, weighed and added up
stuff on a brown paper bag and learned to "make" the strawberries, by
dumping all the baskets and refilling more baskets than were on the
pallet. :-)

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