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just found out there’s a national grape shortage and i now feel insanely bad about accidentally letting a bag of grapes go bad two months ago
hey guys, it is the natural order of things for certain fruits to be abundant in some years and scarce in others. many fruits naturally have a 2-year cycle and some have longer and/or more irregular cycles. we have tried to breed these characteristics out of fruits, and globalization has also moderated these effects somewhat, but the level of success is mixed. we still have bumper crops and crop failures
adapt!
this year there is a bumper crop of cherries. in spite of the rising prices, I bought cherries for the cheapest I’ve seen them in probably the past 10 years, only $2.99 a pound. I also got the more expensive yellow-and-red rainier cherries for $4.99 a pound.
it is also a decent year for strawberries, raspberries, black raspberries, and mulberries. where I live, black raspberries and mulberries grow wild and I have been eating tons of them. other wild berries failed, for example the serviceberry crop failed for the second year in a row.
stop feeling bad about letting one bag of fruit go bad and start buying whatever fruit is cheapest and most available and eating more of it.
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