Thread: What's Cooking?

Guess what's going to be on the menu for tomorrow---


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It's finally here!




Locally grown and sold by a long time family fruit/vegetable store. All of the chain stores get their 'grass' from their warehouse and it's usually grown anywhere from 60-100 plus miles away.

Even with it having been harvested yesterday and under refrigeration it was getting limp due to no moisture so I cut about an inch off the butts and they are drinking water and crisping back up as I write.



Back when I was working produce we were buying grass directly from the local Walla Walla Farmers but our Corporate Kiss Ass 'Merchandiser' (Tony) kept after us to order out of the warehouse as it would make a bit more profit but I kept refusing saying that we were going to buy anything we could that was local as it was good business and Public Relations.

Tony replied; "Roy, the warehouse grass IS LOCAL. It's grown in the 'Basin' (the basin includes the area above and extends into the Yakima Valley).

I looked at Tony and said; Those bananas over there are local if you live in Ecuador. Asparagus grown over a 100 miles away Is Not Local. So he gave up.

However later on the company didn't actually 'Forbid' the purchase of local produce, but it required the grower/seller to provide proof of $5 million in liability insurance. Thus ended the direct purchase of dry onions, leaf lettuces, asparagus, squash, pumpkins etc