Dave's Market Update & Pick of the Week - Topless Pineapples - 15 November 2023
Dave's Market Update
In Fruit
"All our stone fruit lines are cheaper and better this week than last. Apricots, either imperfect or stack are on special in our stores. Lychees have started (quite dear still), however really good eating. Better eating peaches and nectarines now available. With cherries, we have punnets far cheaper than the stack. It’s somewhat smaller fruit in the punnets nonetheless eating really well.Our main special this week is very large, wonderful eating sweet pineapples. There are very good eating new season Australian grapes starting up, the variety is aptly named Sweet Globe. A little pricey this week, however very good eating.Bananas have eased, still lots of avos available and one of my favourite mangoes, the Honey Gold variety are now in store. They are better value than it would appear at face value because the mango is big and yet the seed is very small.
In Veg
Not much change this week. Lots of snacking and gourmet type tomatoes in our stores this week. In particular, we have a really good line of Medley Mix tomatoes this week. They are in a bigger punnet and actually work out not much dearer than our standard gourmet line and similarly with cherry tomatoes. Iceberg lettuce and caulies are both great value. Portobello mushrooms are cheaper than cups and most people would agree a better eating mushroom.” - David Harris
Dave's Pick of the Week
“My pick of the week is the Topless Gold pineapples from central Queensland. A few things to know about pineapples. Although they may become juicier and change colour, they don't actually ripen at all after they have been harvested. They are very high in vitamin C.Twenty years or so ago, the pineapple industry grew pineapples mostly for the cannery and juice. These are what we now call factory pineapples and were not at all sweet and the processors added sugar for taste. The new (not so new now) pineapples, which have nearly entirely replaced the old varieties in the fresh market, are a hybrid of fabulous, sweet varieties imported around 20 years ago. I think they are fantastic to eat.Removing the tops was done for two reasons. Firstly, the new pineapple plants each season are grown from the old plants and splitting the crowns is the easiest and most reliable way of doing this. Secondly, it made it easy for the new style pineapples to be easily distinguished from the older, not so good eating factory pines. It’s quite late in the season now for pineapples so enjoy them this week, whilst they are still excellent eating.” – David Harris
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