Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus -
For a long time now I've avoided most fruits and fruit juices with berries, strawberries mainly, being about the only fruits I regularly eat. It's got to do with the types of sugars in fruits that are not great for diabetics. I miss fruits though: Watermelon, oranges, grapes, mandarins, rock melon (cantaloupe), pears and many others...and their juices. Bananas..nah those things are fucken evil...unless baked into a banana cake that is.
Over the last few days I've had a maddening craving for fruit though, citrus fruits to be more precise. I'm not sure if it's because I currently have that illness that's be going around for a couple years, but I needed fruit.
It started with orange juice which is not very good for me because it takes a lot of oranges to make just one glass and that means the sugar intake is greater. I had a glass or two though, but wasn't satisfied. My teeth wanted to rip into the flesh of some real fruit and so I made it happen and the result was glorious fucken depressing.
Fruits aren't fruity anymore. Fruits actually don't taste like much at all, and I don't just mean because I have that bloody virus, it's been happening for years.
I ended up with some mandarins, a few oranges and a pineapple. I've not had much to smile about these past few days as I feel like shit warmed up, but I smiled when I saw those glorious fruits...only to have that smile wiped right off my face by the taste of those bitter, stringy, juiceless fucken mandarins. I had a bag full so tried another. Same. One more...Same.
On to the oranges I went. I had four of them but only found one that was edible, but just barely. I was, by this point, getting my grump-on...At the moment, my tolerance for fuckassery is low, my patience also and these fruits were pushing their luck.
I haven't dared try the pineapple yet, I'm worried if it's not good it'll tip me over the edge and I'll lose my shit. I'm leaving it to (hopefully) ripen up a little more but I think I'm asking too much of it.
I remember when fruits tasted fruity and one rarely found a bad one. Sure, we couldn't get what we wanted all year round but that's why they call fruits seasonal. These days we want what want so we eat fruits (and vegetables) that have been picked early and stored for months; that's not to mention the genetic modification of them to grow faster, for longer and to look better. It's disgusting. Typical behaviour for humans though.
I've been growing my own vegetables for a while now and have some fruit trees also. What I have harvested has been magnificently tasty and there's simply no comparison to the store-bought produce which is largely disgusting. Sure, there's farmers markets where great produce can be found, but they're not open on weekdays and usually far more costly. I pay it of course, for better produce, but as I can't leave home right now...Well, I was back onto the orange juice which tasted good enough...I just chewed it on the way down.
And you? Have you found fruits and vegetables taste different these days, that they have hardly any taste at all? I don't mean the one's you grow yourselves but one bought from supermarkets. What's up y'all, tell me about it.
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