Give your taste buds a break. You would rather buy fruit shipped halfway across the world (i.e., fruit designed for survive storage rather than taste good) rather than visit the local farmer's market? WTF.
I make it a point to not buy fruit from Chile, because I am voting with my taste buds that I want good fruit not cheap fruit.
My favorite fruit is the peach, and I wait for summer and farmer's markets so that I can get some ripe fruit (ever noticed how the supermarket peaches are usually unripe and never really ripen? they seem to go directly from unripe to rotten).
Maybe you live in North Dakota or some such remote place and Chilean fruit is all you get.
Anyway, just an excuse for me to sing the praises of California peaches. :)
is there really much competition? chile is in the southern hemisphere, so the seasons don't match up. i would have thought that when american peaches are in season, chilean peaches will be terrible, and vice versa.
as for transportation - america is a big country. i am not sure "local" californian peaches on the east coast will suffer much less than chilean peaches - in both cases, significant transport is necessary.
I make it a point to not buy fruit from Chile, because I am voting with my taste buds that I want good fruit not cheap fruit.
My favorite fruit is the peach, and I wait for summer and farmer's markets so that I can get some ripe fruit (ever noticed how the supermarket peaches are usually unripe and never really ripen? they seem to go directly from unripe to rotten).
Maybe you live in North Dakota or some such remote place and Chilean fruit is all you get.
Anyway, just an excuse for me to sing the praises of California peaches. :)