When I go to buy fruit I buy the brightest roundest
lemons, the biggest smoothest
tomatoes and the
strawberrys and oranges which have least
flaws. That is, I used to, before I went
grocery shopping with a friend.
Reaching out for what appears to be the perfect lemon, firm, beautifully yellow and without any brown spots I hear him mutter "That lemon is too good looking.". "What?!"
Then he teaches me a trick to from this day on after a succesful shopping for groceries always end up with the fruit that tastes the most instead of the fruit that looks the best.
So his advice to me and mine to you is to choose the fruit that is a bit smaller, darker in colour with uneven shape and little brown spots, thereby avoiding the fast growing hormone treated belgian blue super fruit which pleases the eye but has grown so rapidly that the taste has had no time to mature and thus fails to please the sense of taste.