In *good* news, I went to the other grocery store today

[conuly]

to pick up pancetta, which is half the price it is at my closer grocery store, and it turns out that berry season has arrived! Two pounds of strawberries for $3! Two boxes of raspberries for $4! Neither of those are actually berries, but whatever!

I was also able to get purslane. That is also not a berry. Neither are the cherries I picked up for $2 a pound. We are going to be eating so much fruit this summer. Just can't wait until the farmer's market gets ripe peaches in. And currents.

I wait all year for fresh, ripe fruit that isn't bananas* or oranges** or apples. Can't eat those hard peaches and plums that you get most of the year. I'm gonna eat myself sick.

* these are berries

** so are these

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yay fruit season!!!!!

[bibliofile]

We've been getting southern peaches already. Yum.

The local strawberry farms haven't produced much fruit yet, due to a comparatively cold and wet May. Some years, we'd be into the second week of picking already. This year, my usual go-to farm hasn't announced when the season will start.

I am suspicious of cherries from California, but the prices have been pretty good I admit.

Re: yay fruit season!!!!!

[conuly]

Lucky you with the peaches. I distrust non-local peaches immensely - in order to get here intact, they have to be shipped hard as rocks.