On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 18:04:38 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2019-02-19 5:49 p.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 2/19/2019 5:04 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>
>>> Many vegetables are so much better when freshly picked. That is one of
>>> the reasons so many people go to the work to maintain a garden.
>>>
>>
>> I remember going to Styer's Orchards many years ago. There was a bin of
>> corn from the day before but many of us waited for the tractor to come
>> back from the field with the fresh picked.
>
>There is a world of difference between the fresh stuff and the old dried
>out stuff. Asparagus is something that is so much better freshly picked.

I never buy corn or cucumbers. Store-bought cucumbers have a nasty
'refrigerated' taste and corn lacks a huge amount of flavor.