justme(Karen) wrote:
> They're awful. I went and bought several packages of Ontario (Canada)
> prune plums thinking I'd make some nice jam today. After washing some
> foul-smelling and foul feeling white stuff off the outside, I started
> in on pitting them.
>
> Every single one of them had rust inside, and large clear crystals of
> I don't know what it was. My fingers feel like they've been subjected
> to some kind of corrosive (no kidding!) and the kitchen stinks to high
> heaven.
>
> I don't know what the hell that was all about but I tossed out a lot
> of money. Even though I phoned the store where I bought them and was
> told I'd be reimbursed, the store manager said that the Ontario plums
> are inferior, that he had no control over the purchases and
> apologized.
>
> Save your money, buy U.S. plums. They're superior in every way.
>
> Karen
I don't know anything about Ontario prune plums, but I have had really
lousy US plums and really good ones and great plums from British
Columbia which last time I looked was still here in Canada. Both are
big countries with many fruit growers and distributers.
Ellen