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…organic.
Why is it that organic veges mostly look pretty shitty? Y
ou got to Alnatura and see the faithful buying a wizened parsnip or two and paying a small fortune for the pleasure.
(And I’m convinced that there’s a profession out there that goes by the name of “Feather attacher” or “Chicken shit smearer”, because every darned organic egg you buy has something stuck to it.
It’s almost like those cooks who use powdered eggs and keep a supply of crushed eggshell on hand to provide false authenticity to scrambled eggs.
And that REALLY DOES happen!)
Then you go to the market and see highly polished fruit and veges that just scream out “Herbicide! Pesticide! Orthophosphates!
Our Sicilian friends from Nackenheim fall somewhere in the middle.
Their stand looks like no other on the market.
Everything looks like the stuff I grow in the garden.
They’ve got heritage tomatoes as misshapen as the boss’s nose, paprika with lumps, really nasty looking beans that taste phenomenal.
And grapes that they’ve cut from the vine and just bunged in the crate, leaves and all.
Great stuff.
Mainz Daily Photo 
>I often have wondered about organic fruits and vegetables. In our market, organic and non-organic fruits and vegetables look the same, except for the price. Organic is so much more expensive. Maybe because they hire people to clean off the shit?
>Beautiful photo and commentary, but it looks like you forgot theme day today (cemeteries). I did that last month. . .:^)-KimSeattle Daily Photo
>jb, the grapes look lovely and the writeup is dead-on (as usual), but I have to admit that I was looking forward to your cemetery shot!