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01-10-2020 12:25 PM
I have a strange question. When you cook asparagus, you will trim off the bottom hard stalk and cook them whatever way you cook them. So, my question is do you think when buying them we should be able to break off the bottom part and only weigh what you are actually going to eat. It seems silly to pay based on weight for parts you are just going to throw away.
01-10-2020 12:28 PM
That would certainly be nice wouldn't it? The same with broccoli!
01-10-2020 12:30 PM
@on the bay wrote:That would certainly be nice wouldn't it? The same with broccoli!
@on the bay Yeah, you’re right. Those broccoli stems are heavy. I peel and cook them. They are quite tasty.
01-10-2020 12:30 PM
We throw away parts of many vegetables, most in fact. Do you think we ought to buy a potato already peeled, a squash already seeded, a banana peeled? Insist the rind be removed from a watermelon?
I think your suggestion is kind of off-the-wall. Not going to happen.
01-10-2020 12:31 PM
01-10-2020 12:34 PM
In a similar vein, weigh your produce out of the plastic bag, so you don't end up paying for the bag - lightweight though it is.
01-10-2020 12:40 PM
We aren't just paying for the part of produce we're about to eat, we're paying for these items to be cultivated, handled and transported, to be available for our tables. It's kinda like S&H .
01-10-2020 12:45 PM
Not sure, but would it effect the freshness of the product if you weren't going to cook it right away? I've also seen cooking shows where the asparagus stems are peeled rather than broken off.
01-10-2020 12:47 PM
Was shopping one day and was waiting to weigh prouce at scale and gentleman at scale was plucking grapes off the vine so he wouldn't have to pay for the vine. Spoke to worker in produce and she said yes you are allowed to do that. Worst of it was he just left the stems right next to scale.
01-10-2020 12:56 PM
I make a lot of soup, and use the stems for adding flavor to my stocks; asparagus and broccoli. I use shrimp shells for seafood stock, and peach and apricot peels to make jelly. My grandmother would tell me horror stories about The Great Depression and sometimes being hungry, and taught me to to minimize kitchen waste.
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