Community Chat

[cherry]

Calif peaches are back. I bought  2 cartons of them yesterday ,and they are yummy, juicy and sweet

[Kachina624]

The California peaches they ship here are so awful I won't buy them.  They're hard as a rock in the store and never ripen properly.  Many are pithy and juiceless.  Total waste of money.  I'd do without before I'd spend good money on them.  Occasionally, we get good Colorado peaches.

[demanda]

Kachina624:  I have to agree with you.  I was at Trader Joe's on Sunday and saw the peaches and got excited.  They were hard as a rock and had no smell to them.  I was leery to buy.  Cherry, I'm glad you got a good batch!!  Enjoy them.

[Cakers3]

@cherry   I'm heading there today so I'll take a look.  However I prefer white flesh peaches and nectarines but I might give these a try.  Usually the yellow flesh is not as sweet in my experience.

Thanks for the heads up. 

I need to get some veggies today and I'll stop there first before heading over to Whole Foods.

Enjoy.  I have a really nice recipe for peach cobbler; the kids love it so maybe I'll use some TJ peaches to make the cobbler.

[cherry]

I guess they send all the good ones to MI. I have never had a bad peach from TJ

[Cakers3]

@cherry   TJ's did have the peaches in the case.  They looked good and they even had them placed top side down which is the way to store peaches. $5.99 I believe?

I didn't buy them, though, because they only had the yellow flesh ones.

Enjoy! 

[FrostyBabe1]

I'm holding out hope for Michigan Red Haven's, but it sounds like the crop will be severly limited due to the lousy spring weather.

I've gotten some decent peaches from Meijer recently, and some that were hard and never really seemed to ripen. Luck of the draw, I guess. 

[Judaline]

I don't live in SC but their peaches are the best. I just wait for my fruit market to get them in. BTW, once they are refrigerated it's over. Yuk. Fruit markets won't ever do that.

[IamDoodles]

California peaches are the worst tasting peaches.  They taste like cardboard (no taste at all) and are mealy. They also have no smell.  all clues that they are not good.  But they sure look beautiful.  I always buy South Carolina, Georgia or Arkansas peaches.  Their taste and smell are heavenly.  Them's good peaches!!! Haha.

[Lindsays Grandma]

For the first ten years I lived in the San Fernando Valley in CA I had the best peaches at no cost.  The house we purchased had an orange tree, lemon tree, nectarine tree and the biggest, juicy, best tasting peaches that grew on the peach tree.  Once we moved I bought peaches at the fruit and vegetable stands and don't remember ever having bad tasting peaches.

While growing up in New York where we had a summer house on Long Island we bought peaches from the family who had a grove of trees with big juicy delicious fruit.  My parents would buy a bushel at a time and between my sister and our cousins they went real fast.  Not to mention the pies my mother baked.