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DO I DARE TO EAT A PEACH ?
by Joel Sattler
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Rated "G" by the Author.

       
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DO I DARE TO EAT A PEACH ?

It's a half-mile walk to my favorite vegetable stand, but it's worth every step. The quality of their produce is far superior to any grocery store.

But it's expensive.

I picked out a pretty peach, very aromatic, and brought it up to the cashier.

He weighed it and said, "That'll be a dollar and sixty cents."

I hefted it in my hand, and considered out loud: "Do I dare to eat a peach?"

He said, "What???"

I said, "That's a line from a famous poem by T. S. Eliot."

He said, "T. S. L.?"

I said, "No, no. T. S. Eliot, the Nobel Prize winner."

He said, "All I know is rugby."

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Reviewed by Ronald Hull 9/28/2018
Thanks for the laugh. I haven't read T.S. Eliot, perhaps, except some snippets in school that I have forgotten. As I age, I am discovering famous people that I never of before, revealing my absolute ignorance of so many things.

Going back to the peaches. During times when these vendors do not have a crop to sell, I suspect they go to the grocery store, buy their wares for the day, and then sell them at a marked up price to you, the consumer, that believes you are getting a better product by buying it on the street.

The only way to know that you are getting the best produce is to buy in season when the price is very low. Buying anything, like peaches, out of season, is expensive and likely to be doctored in one way or another.

Ron

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