Why do organic plums taste so good?

[Veronica]

(Who decided to eat veggies anyway?!)

I've always wondered who ate the first artichoke. C'mon, there's got to be something edible in this thing somewhere!

Veronica

[OakLeaf]

Artichokes you can at least see that they started on the leaves and were extra gratified when they got to the heart.

Olives? All the processing it takes to get them even close to edible? I guess someone hungry found a pile of them bruised and partially fermented under the tree, and figured out they had to do that on purpose to the ones that hadn't fallen naturally???

[Owlie]

Garlic, onions, and chile peppers are the ones I don't get. "Hm, this looks like it might be good to eat" [chomp] "AUGH!!! It BURNS! IT BURNS!!! Let's eat more of it!"

Clearly our ancestors were masters of the use of multiple exclamation points.

[malkin]

While we're on the subject, who figured out coffee?


I have a plum tree that is as organic as the day is long, but the fruit tastes like Puh!

I'm going to try Raleigh Don's non-recipe for plum stuff to see if it makes something tasty.

[GLC1968]

Actually, it's likely not 'organic' vs 'non-organic' that produces the best flavor but the variety of the produce. If you grow the same mass-produced varieties of fruits and veggies (the ones engineered because they are disease resistant, travel well, high yield, ripen appropriately for mass production, etc), then yours will taste an awful lot like the ones you buy from the grocery store.

If you grow or buy from a farmer, varieties that haven't been engineered to death, they will taste about 1000 times better. That's why heirloom tomatoes taste like an entirely different species than the big boys from the grocery store.

We have 5 varieties of plums in our yard. Some are delicious, some suck for eating but make great prunes and others are best left to the birds (literally). There used to be 1000's of different varieties of apples grown (and easily available) in the US...now there are like less than 50 different varieties commercially grown. Same for broccoli. Did you know that 95% of all broccoli grown commercially in the US is the exact same variety? It's insane from a sustainability, long term health and production point of view. Not to mention, some of those other varieties just plain taste better!!

[lovelygamer]

Garlic, onions, and chile peppers are the ones I don't get. "Hm, this looks like it might be good to eat" [chomp] "AUGH!!! It BURNS! IT BURNS!!! Let's eat more of it!"

Clearly our ancestors were masters of the use of multiple exclamation points.

Hysterical!