Oh how I miss the peaches this summer.
Normally peaches make up a significant part of our summer diet, between the fresh juicy peaches (available till September) and the Edy's peach pops (available all year round, but only really good when peaches are in season). I've been waiting for the Amazing Bin of Peaches to show up at the grocery store so we can begin our peach orgy, but here we are, mid-July and relatively peachless! Even the freezer case is peach pop-free.
There's a smallish bin of expensive peaches which are okay, but not quite up to the usual standard of full-on juiciness that I've come to love.
So I googled "peach harvest" and found out why. That cold snap back around Easter? When the peaches were in full blossom? The hard freeze took out 60% of this year's crop. Sad for the farmers. Sad for us.
We'll just have to cross our fingers and hope for a kinder, gentler spring next year.
[Also, it is always 80's nite at Ukrops anymore. Tonight we danced through the produce section (peachlessly) to the strains of "Love Shack."]
189 words | July 12, 2007 10:43 PM | KitchenHad to laugh.
My wife and I sometimes go to the Crossridge Ukrops on Staples Mill. Invariably, we find ourselves laughing and dancing down the aisles.
Hands down, Ukrops has to best shopping music of all local grocery stores.
Posted by: Tripp Fenderson at July 13, 2007 08:18 PMI'm glad I'm not the only one dancing through the grocery store!
Lately they've been playing all the hits from my high school and college years. It's like being back in Vital Vittles, the student-run grocery store on campus, except the music isn't as loud and the selection is better.
I wonder, though, whether in fifteen years I'll be stomping through the aisles and grumbling about that damn noise they're playing. Like, hello? What is this with the grunge? Where's the Eurythmics?
Posted by: 100wordminimum at July 13, 2007 11:00 PMI've also been hearing that ALL fruit might be low in supply because of the honey bee thing. I hope not!
Nectarines seem delicious this year, though. Do they grow in different areas from peaches? They taste very similar, to me!
I've been hearing about the honeybees. The impact of the lack of bees might not turn up till fall, when more fruit comes in. I don't know about the nectarines!
Also, when we went to the grocery store this evening, the Amazing Bin of Peaches was all set up, though not as full as in normal years. At last!
Posted by: 100wordminimum at July 16, 2007 08:06 PM