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June 01, 2013, 05:11:44 AM |
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Amerifag alert!
4 less reasons -- kiwano melons, durians, guava, and kumquats are already imported in the US, even in a lot of chain supermarkets. Some of the others are imported to urban areas where there's enough of a market. They're generally about the same price per pound as "common" foods out-of-season (except potatoes, since they cost about as much per pound as top soil). Formerly-exotic fruits and veggies are becoming big business as the US transitions from extreme consumption of processed food to extreme consumption of raw food. However, the US (kind of counter-intuitively) will always be a processed food stronghold so long as population density, on average, remains fairly low, where farmers ship to distributors who don't give a shit about a thousand or two people scattered around on a bunch of farm land. I've heard people say there are tons of farmers' markets popping up, but they must all be in California, because I still see them shutting down and replaced with something like Dollar General - and good fucking luck finding any fresh produce in those dustbins. I have to trek 50 miles for the really good stuff, with chain supermarkets still being 10 miles out. - But for a lot of it, almost nobody needs to travel 5,000 miles to experience another culture anymore.
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