Re: supermarket cashier again


Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Paul J Kriha wrote:
>
> > > Home scales don't need
> > > to handle both 50g and 5 kg (let alone stone -- surely if you're buying
> > > that many potatoes, they're already in a sealed sack).
> >
> > The shops always have prepacked potatoes, oranges, tomatoes,
> > mushrooms, redishes, and such like, often at lower prices than
> > unpacked. Unfortunately, you can't see properly all the vegetables
> > inside and often you find too late some proportion of them
> > damaged or rotten. The advantage of selecting individual
> > veges from an open tray is that you chose the best ones
> > individually and if they are no perfect ones left you buy something
> > else or go elsewhere.
>
> You buy oranges, tomatoes, mushrooms, or radishes by the stone??

Hardly ever. Never outside of US. And in the US only when
I visit with a family. In my experience even a small family
of three can consume 12-14 large oranges a day, most of them
freshly squeezed. Two kilos of tomatoes (approx 2 litres) or
more can easily go into a single pot of Italian tomato soup.
Another kilo get cosumed with pasta.

I don't buy such large quantities of mushrooms or radishes.
You may notice, I actually _never_ said I buy myself anything
by the stone. I mentioned stones only in connection with the
surprising range of weights I saw the store weighing machine
handle.

> > I would never buy an avocado, mango, papaya, or such like
> > if I couldn't touch it and smell it. Re hygene, apples are eaten
> > including the skin so before eating one I wash it well with soap.
>
> With SOAP????????

Definitely. Absolutely. Every time since my childhood.

Wheeeee, eight question marks. I must explain in a little more
detail, then. :-)

My grandfather used to run a large farm, part of which was an
apple orchard.
He explained to me that apples get sprayed at regular intervals
with insecticides and fungicides in a base of wax, oil, and little
detergent. The detergent and oil helps spreading the stuff in
a thin layer over the surface of each fruit and after it dries the
wax makes it water insoluble to keep it there for weeks. He
and other small private orchardists would never use the spray
shortly before the harvest but many large producers would
spray apples just days before harvest to protect them in
transit and make them look nice and shiny.

You need to use soapy water to dissolve all that waxy coating.
Just wash each apple and see the waxy goo go.

I am deffinitely no green-watch-out-for-deadly-poison-everywhere
nutter, quite the opposite, but I prefer eating apples without
running the risk of getting diarrhoea now and then or having
the stuff accummulating in my bones.

> Even back when alar was allegedly killing apple-eaters, plain water was
> enough to get it off.

What's alar?
Oh, never mind, I shouldn't be lazy and look it up in my CED.
What? "alar" .... Having wings or alae?
Ah, here we are "Alar". Daminozide.

Paul JK

> Peter T. Daniels


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