Worst supermarket fruit atrocities

[FridgeMagnet]

Individually-packaged bananas in Morrisons - and not just "wrapped", enclosed in a hard plastic case with a hanger on it so they can be put on a rail.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Bollocks, materialism's got nothing to do with it. Fruit isn't a present. I just don't know why a tangerine would make or break someone's Xmas.

And I hate Xmas and presents.

Shouldn't your post begin "Bah! Humbug!" instead of bollocks, Ebenezer?

 

[mentalchik]

Bollocks, materialism's got nothing to do with it. Fruit isn't a present. I just don't know why a tangerine would make or break someone's Xmas.

Coz back when i was a kid you only saw tangerines at christmas and they were quite a novelty......always got one in the toe of my stocking !

 

[Geri]

Coz back when i was a kid you only saw tangerines at christmas and they were quite a novelty......always got one in the toe of my stocking !

Bit in the early 90s they would have been quite common.

I'm the same age as you (I think) and I wouldn't have been overly impressed by a tangerine in my stocking.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Anyway, fruit is a good present. My neighbour loves fruit and I gave her a massive bag of various kinds of fruit for her birthday and she was well chuffed.

 

[mentalchik]

Bit in the early 90s they would have been quite common.

I'm the same age as you (I think) and I wouldn't have been overly impressed by a tangerine in my stocking.

Well yes in the early 90's...........back in the late 60's on the other hand.....

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Peaches tend to be particularly bad. Crunchy with no juice in.

 

[5t3IIa]

What is with powdery apples anyway? Does it mean they are off or unripe or is it just a different type of apple? As far as I recall any style of apple can be all floury and yuk. Anyone know why?

 

[_angel_]

Individually-packaged bananas in Morrisons - and not just "wrapped", enclosed in a hard plastic case with a hanger on it so they can be put on a rail.

Where? Not in Leeds.

 

[sned]

The only fruit products I seem to buy nowadays is either in a tin or in juice form so no real problems there.. I do buy tomatoes from the supermarket and they always seem fine..

If I was to buy an apple or something I would like to think I would buy it from a marker or green grocers, but I reckon I would just be lazy and head to the stupor-market (as I like to call them)..

Which reminds me - I need to eat more fruit!

 

[gentlegreen]

I do buy tomatoes from the supermarket and they always seem fine..

Don't ever grow your own then. It absolutely spoils you for those times when you can't.... though they probably weren't ever that much better in city shops - given the need to transport them long distances.

 

[ethel]

in lewisham market yesterday i got:

about 10 bananas
about 10 red onions
a couple of lbs of spuds
pak choi
scallions
about 10 sweet peppers

£4.90


4 mangos for a quid yesterday too.

 

[sned]

Don't ever grow your own then. It absolutely spoils you for those times when you can't.... though they probably weren't ever that much better in city shops - given the need to transport them long distances.

Yeah i mean i only ever really buy cherry tomaotes for sarnies or little 'normal' tomatoes for fry-ups and they're usally yummy. I'm an extremely unfussy eater though so i guess that helps!

 

[Wilson]

avocados which aint ripe and never will be
plums that are really snooker balls

 

[Geri]

I've just found out via another website that Tesco throw out their bananas as soon as they start going yellow!

I'm just back from my local Tesco. I needed bananas, but they never seemed to have any that weren't green - now I know why...

One of the staff was going through the banana section, and throwing all the stock into a trolley. I asked her why - they were going to be dumped! These bananas weren't even fully ripe - they were still green at the ends. I asked her why they were being dumped, when they wouldn't be ready to eat for a couple of days, and she said it was management policy and they had to be dumped once they went yellow....

There were 4 trays of bananas - I reckon that's at least 40 bunches - going to waste. Not to mention the cost to us consumers - that level of wastage must be reflected in the store overhead

This reply from a Tesco staff member...

I know how silly it seems, I've even commented on it myself. The reason that we have to waste them is because the bananas come into store with a "display until" date on them, and even though the bananas are not ripe, we would get into a whole lot of bother if we were to sell them.

I knew supermarkets throw out a lot of food, due to use by dates etc - but bananas? Why do they even have a date on them, it's perfectly obvious when it's ripe enough to eat!

I'm pretty sure they used to have yellow ones but like the person I quoted, I have only seen green ones in there recently.

Utter madness.

 

[Cloo]

Yeah, the unbelievable cost of berries - it's mental.

By the way, found the other week that Sainsbury's do 'value' blueberries, which were every bit as good as the other ones, and though it said they were smaller than usual, looked the same size as well to me.

Avocados are impossible to get right, too.

 

[nadia]

satsumas that go blue and furry after a matter of days. That makes me cross. Kiwi fruits always end up reduced about a month before they are ready to eat

 

[kabbes]

It's really hard to find a decent, ripe avocado in a supermarket.

And not fruit, but still: carrots that go bendy in about two days. That pisses me off.

 

[sned]

I went to Waitrose the other day and was pleasantly surprised by the quality and value (still a little more than your 'normal' supermakets!) of their fruit and veg! Nice spuds in particular.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I lament the rock hard sour plums.
Definitely only sold for the convenience of the supermarket rather than the pleasure of the punter.
They never ripen

 

[harpo]

I've given up on supermarket plums. They go from sour golf balls to wrinkly sour prunes in the fruitbowl without ever passing 'ripe'. In the dying days of my hopeful plum buying, I chucked them in a crumble after about a fortnight. Even then they were still on the miserable side.

 

[harpo]

Yeah, the unbelievable cost of berries - it's mental.

By the way, found the other week that Sainsbury's do 'value' blueberries, which were every bit as good as the other ones, and though it said they were smaller than usual, looked the same size as well to me.
Avocados are impossible to get right, too.

Yep I got value strawberries for a quid. Very sweet they were. Who TF needs strawberries to be all the same size anyway?