Homesick

[twilight33]

Despite the fact that the boxes of satsumas I see around here are routinely from California, when I lived there I never ate them. I lived on clementines, which I rarely see here and those that I do tend to be subpar. There is a distinct difference between the two to me as a Central Valley produce snob. Do not even get me started on what passes for asparagus around here.

We just picked a 5 lb box of clementines for $6 at Costco and OMG this crop is of amazing quality. I want to eat the entire thing tonight and go back for more tomorrow morning. Even Kieran was grabbing away the slices from me and shoving them in his face hand over fist, they are that fresh and sweet. I think the produce snob genes have carried forward another generation.

Why am I writing this, I must eat more of them now. I haven't had fruit gorging tendencies this bad since I was past due with Kieran and consumed a half flat of strawberries!

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Dang you

[tim-wright.livejournal.com]

I was in QFC today and they also have bags of clementines on sale—although not as cheap as Costco—and, after reading your post—I just had to splurge.

Dang, they are good—and I'm not usually a big fruit eater (or a small fruit eater, either).

As an added bonus, each one on the bag has a little sticker on it that says "California Cutie" and I think I'm going to stick a couple of those on me before I go out tonight, just in case......

Yeah!

[twilight33]

It must be the WA shipment quality, the Costco box is all CA Cuties too. Any luck with the stickers?

Re: Yeah!

[tim-wright.livejournal.com]

Alas, no.

And the tangerines could be just a little sweeter, but they are really good.