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Maybe it is just me but some of the produce we are getting nowdays seems to have a different odor when cooked or peeled. The yellow(onions) are an example. They do not have the smell or flavor they are supposed to have. I was preparing Carrots yesterday which I had just brought home from the GRO store. They smelled moldy and slimy. Maybe it is as my Grandmother used to say, "everyones taste changes every seven years."  
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Old-Biscuit
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We FT and purchase produce all over the USA.
The one thing we have found consistent is the quality/flavor of produce purchased in Grocery Stores......that is it's consistently lousy.
We try to purchase our produce from local stands/farms......unfortunately we can't do that year round.
Then during off season we end up buying from Grocery Stores and it is very evident that the produce is consistently lousy.
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And organic produce does taste better!
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PGR_Skye
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I think a lot of the stuff you buy in the groceries is too old. Onions and potatoes use to last longer, but I've had them spoiling fairly quickly. One onion I peeled to chop last night looked really nice and seemed firm, but the inside was rotted. I hate paying good money for bad stuff. Hurry up summer!!
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There's a guy where I live that has two produce stores in the area. I know for a fact that he buys produce from the 3 veggie houses downtown every day. If he doesn't have some item in his store, its because he didn't like the quality of that item that day. I've never bought anything that had an "off" taste from him. It costs a little more but it also lasts longer when I get it home.
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You never know where your produce is coming from anymore. I saw some "green peanuts" at the store way out of season, so I asked the produce manager where he got them. He said he would check and told me the box said "Product of Venezuela". Go figure.
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rockhillmanor
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Ask the grocery WHERE it is from. I have found in traveling and reading those tiny stickers on fruit that 98% of it comes from OTHER countries, That do 'not' have the same restrictions on pesticides, fungicides, and fertilizers or hygiene when picking and packing.... YET we import them into the US. Vegetables I found that over 98% come from other countries, Mexico the number one importer. Where their water systems are so contaminated and that is what is used to irrigate the fields.
Unless you are buying from a green market you are buying and eating fruits and vegetables from other unregulated countries.
I am in Florida right now and am amazed at how much is imported. Plant City FL is in full production of their famous strawberries and at Publix there were packages of their strawberries in a cooler, BUT stacked right next to the Plant City Fl strawberries in the same cooler, were packages from another country! Guess they think you are going to see the Plant City ones and ASSUME the whole cooler would be from Florida, NOT. Then I walked over to the blueberries,same thing. Some from Florida the majority another country. So I left.
The big news this week was fungicide found in Orange Juice. YUP, Florida Orange Juice that they added Brazil juice to. Funny the fda is now going to ban juice from Brazil to save us all.....ya,like they could tell what part of the juice in a carton is from Brazil or from the US.
I'm highly allergic to fungicide and when the juice plant starts running here in Leesburg, FL and emits ginormous clouds of steam I have severe asthma attacks. Yup the fungicide surely must have been in the drops of the Brazil juice only! 
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Mountain Traveler
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Know what you mean. It really hit us when we stayed in Reno working for Amazon and was amazed at how good the produce was coming just a few miles from California. Now we are in Cali for a while and its even better! Make you realize how hauling produce long distances affect the taste.
(oh yeah, and talk about cheap prices! I've never seen produce this cheap in the stores any where)
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All these answers make me feel much better about my taster/sniffer. DW knows I love fresh green onions and came in yesterday with a bunch of Vidalia onions with a TAG that is stamped,"Product Of USA." Gonna try 'em later today, Shrimp fried rice, Egg drop soup, and General TSO'S chicken.
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Super_Dave
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We recently bought our retirement house in Utah but still have a few years to work here in CA. The produce on the shelf in Utah is stuff that goes to the dumpster here in CA. I can't buy an avacado in Utah that isn't already mush in the skin. I've started to wonder if that is how they think it is supposed to be?
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