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

Comments

[spikethemuffin]

>You might use the word that way, but I think you may be the only one.

Well, to be fair, botanists seem to have defined "berry" outside of common usage. (It bothers me, too. Sort of like "box turtles" are not turtles but they are indelibly referred to as such...)

[conuly]

To be even more fair, common usage doesn't really have a coherent and consistent definition of the word berry.

[spikethemuffin]

Did you just use "common usage" and "coherent and consistent" in the same sentence? Okay, fine, there's a "doesn't" in there, I'll allow it.

[spikethemuffin]

Also, $2/lb. for cherries? WHAT?

[conuly]

Shock that it's so low, or shock that I think this is a low price?

That store has some good deals on produce, but their dairy is so-so at best.

[fred_mouse]

For me, that is an incomprehensibly low price - American cherries are in local stores at $30/kg.

[spikethemuffin]

Shock that it's so low.

One of the few things I truly miss about Chicago is their gigantic produce emporia. Crappy dairy, as you said, and $8 a box for slightly-stale cereal, but you could eat healthy for days on ten dollars.