On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 16:25:09 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 10/20/2018 2:56 PM, l not -l wrote:
>
>> Eckert's Farms in southern Illinois, near St. Louis, has very good peaches
>> many years. As with all ag products, there are good and bad years, mostly
>> depending on weather. The crop this year was very good, IMO; not quite as
>> good as the Georgia peaches but better than the California peaches we
>> received this year.
>>
>
>Supermarket is a crap shoot. You have to let them ripen a few days and
>if they are really good, that batch will be gone. Next batch may ripen
>and be mealy. The locals have been poor this year.

I stopped buying them. They were always disappointing. Sour, mainly. I
only buy lychees and mangos anymore. They never disappoint if you buy
them when they look ripe.