AMAZING blueberries at 7th Ave. Key Foods
This is just a public service announcement for people tired of stale winter fruit: The Key Food on 7th and Carroll is selling pints of really really good blueberries for $2.99. They're from Chile. I guess it's summer there. The aforementioned blueberries are right by the entrance of Key Food. Yum. I got 2 pints and snarfed one immediately, and tomorrow I'm going back for more.
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^if you have a car, get yourself to Rossman's on 3rd/26th. I get all of my berries there. Today I got strawberries and blackberries
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Flexichick wrote: ^if you have a car, get yourself to Rossman's on 3rd/26th. I get all of my berries there. Today I got strawberries and blackberries
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BKChickie wrote: [quote=Flexichick]^if you have a car, get yourself to Rossman's on 3rd/26th. I get all of my berries there. Today I got strawberries and blackberries
Are they especially cheap, or just good (or both)?
both. My big box of strawberries were $1.99 today and they were ALL good. Not fuzzy or bruised. Small blackberries today were also $1.99, bu last week I got a big box of blacberries for $2.49. I also got GOOD tomatoes (not the orange, pale things you see in the winter) on the vine, oranges, dill, chives, parsley, potatoes, onions, avocadoes, lemons, etc. Huge haul of goods for $20. All fresh. -
Not to rain on anyone's parade, or maybe it's not your thing, but conventional strawberries are consistently at the top of the pesticide list. They're one of the most important fruits to buy organic. Apparently blueberries aren't typically high in pesticides, although I only know about US-produced blueberries. In general, fruits require loads of pesticides.
I finally bit the bullet this year and vowed to only buy organic fruit. Strawberries are expensive, but I can say that they do generally taste better than conventional. -
"Not to rain on anyone's parade..." is usually the first thing somebody says when they're gonna rain on your parade, piss on your campfire (and in your cornflakes), and act like a Betty Bring-down.
I'm gonna go eat some blueberries, though. I might skip the strawberries. -
LOL. Very true. I had every intention of pissing on the collective campfire....
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I usually go for "No offense, but..." as in "No offense, 8thandPrez, but you're a real Betty Bring-down. As a matter of fact, pesticides are my thing. I sometimes drink 'em straight, just to make sure my insides are as free of pests as the orchards that grow my out-of-season imported fruit whose mere import probably enlarges my carbon footprint to Sasquatchian proprortions."
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<--has consumed worse things than pesticides
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I find that things treated with pesticides tend to have less bugs, and that things with preservatives tend to last a lot longer.
I spend my time worrying about things that actually hurt people, like getting hit by a bus.
"Oh my god, did you hear they just opened an entire ward at the local hospital? It's filled with people who didn't eat organic food"
this. is. a. quote. you. will. never. hear. spoken . in. a. non-sarcastic. tone. -
When I said "not your thing", I was referring to eating organic food. As in, "eating organic food is not whynot_31's thing."
Whynot: I would hazard to guess that your hypothetical hospital ward IS, in fact, filled with some people whose ailments resulted from pesticide intake (or BPA intake, or cigarette intake). What we do know is that some pesticides are indeed harmful. The question is what quantities do harm and over what period of time and whether humans are affected in the same way as animals. Me, I don't take chances on stuff like that when alternatives are readily available that taste better and don't pollute our environment. -
<-- often eats non-organic food. but still knows that buying food raised without pesticides is less about the health of the person eating the food than that of the people who worked on the farms where it was raised. yes, they do end up in the hospital, though most likely not one local to you.
i would still eat cheap, tasty blueberries, but i wouldn't say 8thandPrez is wrong, here. -
8thandPrez isn't wrong, it's just the slightly self-satisfied tone that gets me. It's probably unintentional, and not a big deal either way, but sheesh.
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oh, i got no beef with you, moomi. i was talkin' back to whynot.
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How was I being self-satisfied? I thought I was actually posting something semi-helpful, if people were interested. It's just something that I care about... don't mean to judge. I grew up eating conventional produce and haven't keeled over (yet).
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Flexichick wrote: [quote=BKChickie][quote=Flexichick]^if you have a car, get yourself to Rossman's on 3rd/26th. I get all of my berries there. Today I got strawberries and blackberries
Are they especially cheap, or just good (or both)?
both. My big box of strawberries were $1.99 today and they were ALL good. Not fuzzy or bruised. Small blackberries today were also $1.99, bu last week I got a big box of blacberries for $2.49. I also got GOOD tomatoes (not the orange, pale things you see in the winter) on the vine, oranges, dill, chives, parsley, potatoes, onions, avocadoes, lemons, etc. Huge haul of goods for $20. All fresh.
Wow, thanks! Never been there. -
Flexichick wrote: <--has consumed worse things than pesticides
Same here. Please, at this point in my life I don't worry about some pesticides on fruit......... -
eggcream wrote: [quote=Flexichick]<--has consumed worse things than pesticides
Same here. Please, at this point in my life I don't worry about some pesticides on fruit.........
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gives a piece of perfectly shaped, huge, completely blemish free fruit to Flexi and Eggcream. ...and then says "hey, save one for me".
Who said anything about cigarettes? Is someone up there equating cigarettes with fruit grown with the benefits of pesticides, preservatives, and and a little genetic modification? tsk, tsk.
P.S. Sweet Tea: yea, just cause I'll eat fruit grown with pesticides doesn't mean I wanna be the guy who gets to spray the pesticides on the tree.
I don't want to be that guy, or the guy who mines coal.... I just want the yummy fruit and electricity it produces. (electricity is yummy?) -
^Lloyd Dobler is trying to kill me :-)
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and, on a side note, Rossman's does have some organic produce, but the majority of their stuff is not organic. They are open 24 hrs,364 days a year (closed one day for Jewish holiday) and parking is relatively easy (in front or around the corner). There is also a pet food distributor on that block who has 2 super cute kitties - Smokey and Samantha - Samantha loves to give hugs and will lay in your arms. Rossman's resident kitty is named "Bootsie", but she is more there to work the warehouse and make sure there are no critters. (yes, I consider the cats an important element of the shopping experience....LOL)
Rossman's also has some other grocery products - sodas, breads, hummus, milk, canned goods, etc. (no meat, chicken, etc.), but it is basically a warehouse and the real bargains are found in the produce. Last week I got 5 (small) Haas avocados for $2. My mom (who is Cuban) says they have the best mango she has ever had in her life. -
whynot_31 wrote: Can't say I saw the movie....
Lloyd Dobler: "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say_Anything...
(just so you know, if you show up at my house with a boom box, I'm taking out my shank
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I haven't read all of this, but I am pretty sure organic farmers have to use pesticides, but just different ones (unregulated at times) and I'm not convinced they are safer.
It isn't easy being green. -
The 7th Ave Key Food also has this awesome stuff!!
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From blueberries to pancake + sausage (with chocolate chips!) in ~25 posts. The "beauty" of Brooklynian.
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whynot_31 wrote:
It's delicious with a pesticide chaser.
I don't want to be that guy, or the guy who mines coal.... I just want the yummy fruit and electricity it produces. (electricity is yummy?)
...Flexi, I see your "Say Anything" quote and raise you an equally apropos "Say Anything" quote:
"Why do you eat that stuff? There's no food in your food." -
OpossumQueen wrote: I haven't read all of this, but I am pretty sure organic farmers have to use pesticides, but just different ones (unregulated at times) and I'm not convinced they are safer.
PS, Organic farming is highly regulated. I don't know if that means it's healthier or safer - I've seen arguments on both sides - but I have some friends who own a small dairy farm and the reason they aren't officially organic is because it requires too much highly specific (and expensive) regulation-following.
It isn't easy being green. -
lnelson wrote: [quote=whynot_31]
It's delicious with a pesticide chaser.
I don't want to be that guy, or the guy who mines coal.... I just want the yummy fruit and electricity it produces. (electricity is yummy?)
...Flexi, I see your "Say Anything" quote and raise you an equally apropos "Say Anything" quote:
"Why do you eat that stuff? There's no food in your food." =D> (although you might want to direct that to Carnivore and his pancake- sausage-chip on-a-stick lovin' self) -
lnelson wrote: [
Oh, yeah, getting the organic label is a bitch! I like the idea of organic cows (less antibiotics/grass fed, etc) but for produce, I don't think that what is allowable is necessarily any safer than non-organic. And if your'e hoping to save the environment, organic is too inefficient to actually feed the people that are currently fed.
PS, Organic farming is highly regulated. I don't know if that means it's healthier or safer - I've seen arguments on both sides - but I have some friends who own a small dairy farm and the reason they aren't officially organic is because it requires too much highly specific (and expensive) regulation-following. -
OpossumQueen wrote: [quote=lnelson][
Oh, yeah, getting the organic label is a bitch! I like the idea of organic cows (less antibiotics/grass fed, etc) but for produce, I don't think that what is allowable is necessarily any safer than non-organic. And if your'e hoping to save the environment, organic is too inefficient to actually feed the people that are currently fed.
PS, Organic farming is highly regulated. I don't know if that means it's healthier or safer - I've seen arguments on both sides - but I have some friends who own a small dairy farm and the reason they aren't officially organic is because it requires too much highly specific (and expensive) regulation-following.
wait, you mean more people die from starvation than inorganic food?
...or, are you saying that a twinkie (or, pancake on a stick ...your choice) is worse for me than my genetically modified, waxed, pesticide protected, cosmetically perfect orange?
you aren't going to ruin 4012's for me.
http://www.nationalfinder.com/fruitlabels/plu-numbers/index.htm -
OpossumQueen wrote: And if your'e hoping to save the environment, organic is too inefficient to actually feed the people that are currently fed.
i basically agree with this, btw, but i don't find it particularly convincing in the case of strawberries, which are hardly a staple grain.
i'm interested to know what specifically you find worrisome about organic pesticides. it's not something i know very much about.
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