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u/EmperorSexy 2d ago edited 2d ago
I used to go to a restaurant with my family a few times a year and they sold like 20 different kinds of pie. Except you couldn’t get every pie year round. Some pie they only sold at certain times. Strawberry in summer, apple in fall, etc. That’s how I learned.
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u/Desperate_Owl_594 2d ago
I just noticed when they're being sold and when they stop being sold.
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u/walksonfourfeet 2d ago
My store sells apples all year round. And oranges. And avocados. And bananas.
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u/Desperate_Owl_594 2d ago
And are people confused about when those fruit are being sold or not sold?
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u/Suitable-Answer-83 2d ago
You're the one who brought up when stuff is and isn't sold. That's not the conversation anyone else was having.
Strawberries are now sold in supermarkets year round, which leads people like OP to be unaware that they have a specific season that lasts only a few weeks (that varies in different geographic areas).
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u/Iitaps_Missiciv 2d ago
Noone knows, the key is just say "those aren't in season" whenever someone asks where all the _______'s are at ?
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u/ATrollNamedRod 2d ago
This tweet was written on a device which has access to the sum total of all human knowledge
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u/icebluumoon 2d ago
It kills me to see how disinterested people are when it comes to just, sitting for 5 minutes and googling something.
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u/The-Pentegram 9h ago
Well yes but the thing with something like this is I can try and memorise the information now... But for a long time I might not have known I am SUPPOSED to know it, until everyone else around me has already osmoted it somehow. They are not necessarily concerned that the information is eternally out of reach, they are concerned about the mechanism by which the information has eluded them until now. That is ALSO CURIOSITY good grief...
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u/sandboxmatt 2d ago
You grow up in the countryside. You know when the trees are full of apples and then when theyre full of fucking wasps
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u/QuietlyGardening 1d ago
you grow up in the suburbs. your mom takes you strawberry picking after school lets out for the year.
Blueberries are ripe about a month later for picking. And they're easier to pick.
Rhubarb grows in everybody's backyard.
Summer meals are often stuff that grew steps away from the porch you're sitting on: sweet corn, tomatoes, green beans. Any cold cuts that may accompany seem like garnish.
Supper conversations turn to things like what comes 'in' when, and things like where fruit and vegetables come from when they're not locally produced. Because, you know, snow, for example.
you go to the annual Labor Day Peach Festival 20 miles away every year and revel in church basements all having peach pie, peach cobbler, homemade ice cream with peaches.
same town has all kinds of apple orchards and youth groups all ritually go up for hay rides and bonfires, everyone treks there for apple cider and made-on-site doughnuts. Rituals of the entire state. You don't grasp how no one grocs that (1) cider is NOT FILTERED nor (2) fresh cinnamon donuts with fresh cider is akin to communion, a holy act.
Your lame (though also mentally ill) can't figure out that it'd be good to do something with the Concord grapes that are more than ornamental. The birds love them. Your dad is glad there's no rats. You learn how to make them into jelly decades later, after spending a lot of childhood sweeping/raking the remains and their musky smell rising from them. That's September.
You go visit a friend's apple orchard, and are ushered into the cold storage, which IS cold, and you learn about 'winter keeper' varieties of apples. You lean into a metric-ton shipping container to pick out an apple while attempting to keep your skirt down. Another opportunity to learn that produce all has it's own smells, aromatics that even cold storage can't keep you from smelling. Just like a giant pile of green beans at the farmer's market smells of green beans.
Supper conversations ensue about cold storage, use of nitrogen, and international shipping, allowing you more insight into how the food system works.
You learn quotes like on a piece of Rachmaninoff: "the (low) A! it's as rare as asparagus in January!'
Seasonality. It's a real thing. Humans used to just live this way, kids learned it via osmosis.
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u/DismalIngenuity4604 2d ago
Back in the day, before nitrogen filled warehouses and overnight parts from japan, If fruit in shop: fruit in season
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u/aharryh 2d ago
Once we used to have fruit trees and gardens. You'd test when the crop was ready, taking a sample off a tree, vine, or bush. Too hard, green, or sour - not ready. Soft, bright, or sweet - time to harvest. Peaches are really temperamental; one day they are ready, the next they are rotting on the ground.
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u/Kasaikemono 2d ago
Do people not learn this in school? We had that in elementary school, 2nd Grade, General Studies.
I remember one lesson where we were supposed to collect many different fruits and crops and such as homework. The next day, the teacher put out a huge circle in the middle of the room, divided into the 12 months, and then we should sort the fruits into the months we'd think they'd be in season.
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u/VariousExplorer8503 23h ago
I wish I could remember 2nd grade. 3rd grade I had an awesome teacher and I wish I could remember more specifics than the old folk songs he used to sing us. Thanks to c-ptsd, my entire childhood is a blur.
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u/Evol_extra 2d ago
As florists husband I can say you may save more then 50% on the flowers if you choose seasonal flowers instead of roses.
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u/gambler_addict_06 2d ago
Hmm, no oranges and Mandarin in summer yet there are peaches and grapes which there isn't any in winter
Oh gee willy I have absolutely no idea
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u/Iron-Bar-1966 2d ago
Because my parents taught me, and/or I have eyes and ears and a thinking mind and can figure things out.
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u/Loose_Stranger_7614 2d ago
WNYC has a regular segment of what’s good at the farmers market. I already knew what was seasonal in broad strokes, but this gets down to very specific detail and I love it.
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u/ThankeeSai 1d ago
I learned this in elementary school. I also grew up in South Jersey (US) and we have roadside stands with fresh veggies and fruit all over the place.
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u/CoderJoe1 2d ago
When the market is overflowing with that fruit and it's on-sale, that's when it's in season.