Around the World in Rare and Beautiful Apples

Re:Around the World in Rare and Beautiful Apples by dmitriid on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @08:20AM (#21991152)

They would be available in local stores at the very least. However, supermarket chains eat everything up and leave no place for local stores. Even when a supermarket location has deals with local farmers (e.g. for eggs), it will not carry non-lasting products such as apples.

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Re:Around the World in Rare and Beautiful Apples by ghaff on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @08:50AM (#21991358)

Depends where you live. Where I live in New England there are lots of local orchards and supermarkets carry maybe a dozen varieties. Probably more than the farm stands actually because some varieties like Granny Smiths are mostly not grown locally.

Of corse where I live is pretty much apple orchard central. My neighbor has an orchard and “Johnny Appleseed” was from the next town over.

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Re:Around the World in Rare and Beautiful Apples by yoz-y on Thursday January 09, 2020 @05:01AM (#21999891)

This. This holidays I've visited a friend and they have a shop that just sells apples from the orchard just next to it. Doesn't solve the availability problem but nothing will.

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Re:Around the World in Rare and Beautiful Apples by dmitriid on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @12:00PM (#21993250)

> Depends where you live.

True. Local stores are nearly non-existent in Sweden. Even the smallest ones belong to a supermarket chain.

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