Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal (2004)

I lived in Berkeley when the guy who invented fruit salad died, around 1966. Some professor at UC Davis. His obituary ran a full column on the front page of the Examiner, plus one and a half columns on page two.

This reminds one of two things. First, California is one of the world's major bread-baskets. Most importantly, agriculture is *the* information-based industry, as it has been from Anatolia of eight thousand years ago. At that time it sprang from the information exchanges of the earliest settlements, e.g. Jane Jacobs's hypothetical village of Obsidian. Today it thrives based on major intellectual foundations like the University of California.

On the other hand, there are some canned foods (soup, tuna fish, stewed tomatoes) that are acceptable. Is there any rational basis for the distinction?

Sorry, this is Ann's fault. A layover at O'Hare is an opportunity to get a proper Italian beef, a good hot dog, or if you live in a really backwards part of the country like I do a real gyro. A long layover is a chance to get all three. If you order fruit salad you get what you deserve.

Canned organic mandarin oranges, when the real ones are not available at the farmers market, are perfectly acceptable, even in California.

Recently bought citrus fruits, proferred by Del Monte, in glass jars. Seem to be *unprocessed* except for removal of the protective skin and some outer layer fruit skin. This citus medley is as good as I can prepare using fresh market fruits. Placing citrus in steel cans unfavorably alters the taste. Glass packaging is the answer. Mandarin Oranges in steel cans, served at room temperature, are acceptable fare in the off-season.

Cans are tinned canisters, hence brit "Tin", US "Can", The acid in the fruit reacts with the tin to give the off taste.

californians will soon be eating canned oranges.....once you have paved over the last of your agrcultural lands. Seems to me orange county's main products these days are punk rock bands.

Any canned fruit tastes better than any fresh fruit.

I guess Californians can't tell canned from fresh. Here in Chicago we know that at O'Hare only in-skin bananas are fresh fruit, Lent is a meager shadow of its former self and fruit salad is only consumed in its natural jelloed state.

When I was growing up in the Midwest, canned goods and pull-dates was all there was to eat if you were a grocer, or second cuts of meat if you were a butcher, or day-old bread and dry cheese and maybe a slice of pickle if you ran the deli, or soup de jour from your cafe, or if you were a tradesperson, then lots of pasta with tomato sauce and a pinch of dry cheese.

Fresh fruit? What a concept! This was back in the steam locomotive and Ford TriMotor era.

Hardtack and salt pork, or homecooked beans and redeye gravey is what my father grew up on. Lots of potatoes, sometimes sauerkraut or boiled cabbage or a pickled egg every now and then. In summer, a ripe tomato, eaten warm off the vine, juice dribbling. And sweet corn in the fall.

Canned goods? What a concept!

In my granddad's day, a steak cost $0.50, a cup of coffee a nickel, and the hard roll was free. A plug of chew tobacco used up the rest of your day's wages spent as you made it, hand to mouth.

The only fruit was sugared, jellied and candied, served sliced in a fruit cake on Christmas Eve, stared at, poked over, then set under the napkin.

The ironic thing, at the end of that bygone era, all those folks like me, grown up and thrived in those days, on those lean fixings, a lot of them are still around, not stunted or malnourished, but instead pushing 80 or 90 and clear-headed.

All you kids with your fresh fruit are dying in your 50's, or going senile before you retire, or weigh in at 280 pounds, flat footed and diabetic.
Then you got this bonehead Atkins fad, with his fresh meat fantasy at a time of prion epidemics, and drug resistant e-coli, all these mad fools paying fabulous prices to get holes in your brains or your guts, and go dribbling idiot.

I'll probably outlive all of you fruitcakes.

>Canned organic mandarin oranges, when
>the real ones are not available at the
>farmers market, are perfectly acceptable,
>even in California.

I agree. I think it's because for some reason, unlike most fruit, canning mandarin oranges doesn't make them taste bad, just different.

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