Fruits Good or Bad

[Alfred Boehme]

I Love eating fruits my top five are

1. Sweet oranges
2. Crispy, juicy apples
3. Peaches
4. Plums
5. Grapes

I must share this with you, on my last trip to Cape Town I was given a bag of apples from a large apple merchant in Grabouw these apples where there rejects not suitible for export, I have had the bag now for more than a week eating 4 to 5 apples a day and they are so crisp and sweet "juicy" never in my life have I come across apples at any fruit stall of shopping center. Question: Why don't they send these so called rejects to our shops?

Amazing how our own land and niebours can not benefit from our local growers "suppliers"

my 6 cents

[SandyB]

Alfred ,, the  offerings on the average supermarket shelf are   awfulmost of the time  I  find ..  thats unless  its the  export rejects ,,, wonder  what  we  get ,, the  rejects  of the  rejects ...??

[Andrew Darné]

I ask myself the same question frequently.

I recall a local resident asking back in the early 2000's why the fruit and veg prices at spar were so high for such poor quality. The reply was that the produce is trucked in from Vredendal with whom they had a contract. The irony was that there are local producers, in Namibia, a mere 300km away with top quality produce, albeit it their rejects, yet still far superior to the imported goods.
Ok, I know there is this whole buy and sell, forex, international market, supply and demand hogwash (no offense to SPAR politics, I still have to shop there)... but for crying out loud, doesn't it make sense to support local markets, and I'm not only referring to Oranjemund, as Alf said there's the Grabouw/Elgin apple area and the likes too.