Why is the price of fruit so high this summer?
It’s how we are made, I guess. The whole winter we dream about summer and the summer fruit and all the way through the winter months, I for one, drool at the thought of eating juicy oranges, a winter fruit. So now summer’s here and the fruits are in abundance, it is so expensive that everyone is becoming very picky. A peach with the slightest blemish won’t sell at these prices.
I’ll need a loan this summer
I went fruit hunting yesterday at a few different fruit shops and supermarkets to scout out the territory and returned home feeling annoyed and dejected. Here we are, quarter way through June and the prices of the summer fruit are astronomical. It’s as though all the fruit farmers are hiking their prices to pay for new trucks or for running them on last season’s gas prices. What’s going on? At these prices I’ll need a Personal Loan every time I go shopping for fruit. We’ll have to cut fruit to once a month at this rate!
Life in the fruit belt
We have every kind of fruit imaginable and a few that are quite beyond imagination as well. So when the seasons change we look forward to filling our baskets with the latest fruit at usually very reasonable prices. This summer it’s different, and while not all the summer fruits are in the shops yet, the prices are very high compared to past years. Perhaps it’s all part of the recession and the farmers marking their goods up to beat an imaginary financial crisis.
We’re eating the fruit
Despite the prices, we are already eating peaches, plums, apricots and bananas but we are buying them in smaller quantities and checking each item carefully before taking it home. The watermelons and melons are in the fruit shops; these are always notoriously expensive when they first appear and then the price sinks steadily as the summer draws on. I was never a confirmed watermelon freak, but then someone – I guess it was a dairy – began advertising a cube of watermelon on the end of a fork with a small cube of salty cheese on the melon. I am now a melon and cheese freak!
Mangos
The mangos will start making their appearance in the shops one of these days and then the pressure will be on to spend big money and buy them. I will fight back, remembering what happens every year. Mangos start out at their weight in gold and after a month the price will go down. And they are simply delicious and can be eaten as a starter course, the main course and the desserts of every meal. The season starts with very small mangos for the first two months. Then the variety changes to a larger type and finally to the giant green mangos which weigh well over a pound each.
Summer
In the hottest days of summer we often sit down to a salad of mango, melon, bananas and a peach with a dollop of ice-cream as a major meal. It is filling and nutritious and delicious. Here’s to the summer fruit – may their prices fall!
