[JasonB]

Nice one Jason.

I think that most people now have no idea what the food they are eating should taste like. Fruit and veg from the supermarket, even here in France where it is all taken so seriously, is pretty close to tasteless mush. The joys of tomatoes straight from the plant never fails to make us grin. All the jam making has needed more lemons than we have on the tree so I got some from SuperU. They were cold and dripping with condensation obviously straight out of the fridge. No way to treat fruit. One of our own lemons has enough pectin to set almost anything that lacks a little but it took three or four to have the same effect.

We pay a heavy price for the convenience of out of season food.

Spot on.

Fruit & veg are grown for how they look on the shelf, rather than how they taste, and they're either picked before they're ripe and shipped half way round the world, or grown under plastic.

Our food chain is seriously messed up, and as you say, it's all for the sake of convenience.