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.
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