Dates! Who knew?

[OakLeaf]

the brown shriveled things you look at in the produce department and pass over

Pass over? Pass over?! It's a struggle for me not to buy and eat every dried date I see.




And - if figs are any comparison - then by all means, if you're in the PNW, eat a freakin' apple, but if dates are grown near you and brought fresh and ripe to the market, try some and get back to us! Grocery store fresh figs in the north are just plain nasty, and I totally love fresh figs when I'm in California or Florida in the late summer. Once in a while I'll make an exception to local and seasonal to try something exotic, and I nearly always regret it.