As a Halloween gift my parents sent me about a dozen Nebraska grown apples and some caramel for dipping said apples. They also included a print version of this article. Which is a pretty good read and makes you realize that due to the ever so slow "dumbing down" of the red delicious apple, what was once great tasting is now mediocre.
The red delicious apples were the authentic kind, not the factory grown kind that you find in every supermarket and fruitstand. The taste was refreshingly eye-opening...exactly how an apple should taste. But for me the best part of these orchard grown apples was that they did not have that annoying white PLU sticker on them. You know the sticker that you have to gouge a fingernail into in order to get it off the skin of the apple.
It made feel bad for today's kids who don't know there was a time when fruit did not have words or numbers stamped on them.
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funny you mentioned this.
Just earlier today, my mom and I were talking about the advantages of growing up on a third world country, where food is grown by local farmers, in small quantities and without any hormones, pesticides or aditives. Where apples taste like apples, and strawberries may not be perfectly shape or the correct "pantone red" but have the right taste and flavour when you bite them right out of the tree...
PLU??? BAR CODE??? sadly, those are the things that my country is looking forward to.
I remember when i first came here -almost 10 years ago- and was so amazed by those stickers that started collecting them.
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