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Original poster

To think what is the point in 'ripen at home' fruit.

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PoppingOneOutIn2020 · 15/09/2019 15:25

22 weeks pregnant and craving the bollucks off some nectarines.

I live in a small town with 2 food shops, both of which only stock a small fruit selection and the only pissing nectarines they have are solid 'ripen at home' ones.

Who the hell buys riown at home fruit? Surely when you want fruit you want to est it, not watch it like watching paint dry until it's good enough to eat.

I fuckin' hate the co-op.

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GatoFofo · 15/09/2019 15:30

It’s just a way for them to turn a bigger profit, ripe fruit has a much shorter shelf life so they’ve found a way to market unripe stuff.
Clever, but bloody annoying Angry

Original poster
PoppingOneOutIn2020 · 15/09/2019 15:32

Its driving me insane.

Do you think if I best one nicely with a meat hammer that will do the trick?!

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WindsweptEgret · 15/09/2019 15:32

If I'm doing a weekly shop I want some fruit that's ready to eat now and some to eat in 4-7 days time, so a mix.

OhamIreally · 15/09/2019 15:33

Those ripen at home fruits never bloody ripen anyway!

Aaarrgghhh · 15/09/2019 15:33

So it lasts longer if you do a big shop each week.

Original poster
PoppingOneOutIn2020 · 15/09/2019 15:34

I just really need a nectarine.

The next best thing is going to be the pot of slices peaches in syrup that you get in the condiments aisle.

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Fairylea · 15/09/2019 15:35

I agree with the comment that they don’t ripen anyway. Supermarket fruit is appalling generally. Always too hard and no flavour.

Userzzzzz · 15/09/2019 15:36

Much prefer it. I don’t want everything to go off within a day or two.

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PoppingOneOutIn2020 · 15/09/2019 15:38

I swear when I lives at home my mum would buy the rioen at home ones.. they was the ones that always went funny and off before they went ripe.

I'm off the type that buys our house fruit and veg as and when we need it so were not worries out it going off and being wasteful. We just buy all our weekly food that had a decent shelf life and leave everything else until a day or two before we need it.

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Laiste · 15/09/2019 15:41

I think YANBU. If a shop is only going to sell one type it should be the ready to eat.

I can't think of anything else we'd be happy to buy at full price but not be able to actually eat for a week!

BarbariansMum · 15/09/2019 15:41

As PP said, it lasts longer. They sell "ready to eat" as well.

Qwerty19 · 15/09/2019 15:41

Tinned ones maybe?

Laiste · 15/09/2019 15:43

The last lot of eat me keep me bananas i bought were awful. The keep me ones reached and shot passed the ripe stage at around midnight one night i recon because one day they were green and the next - black!

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PoppingOneOutIn2020 · 15/09/2019 15:43

@BarbariansMum as stated in my OP, my two local shops have only got the ripen at home nectarines.

I do know that the shop where I work sells both, ready to eat and ripen at home though.

But that's no good to be, its Sunday afternoon, I'm not ag work and I'm hangry for a nectarine Sad

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redappleandaquamarinebow1987 · 15/09/2019 15:44

Some people prefer them at different ripeness. I prefer my fruit hard crunchy and not have it so soft that it's mushy or has juice dripping down

KaitlynFairchild · 15/09/2019 16:57

I halve peaches, stone them, and bake them in the oven with sugar and cordial until really soft. It solves my peach cravings when the peach season is over or hasn't properly started yet and they are hard and tasteless.

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PoppingOneOutIn2020 · 15/09/2019 17:00

@Kaitlynfairchild that sounds absolutely amazing Grin adding to my list of things to try!

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Saucery · 15/09/2019 17:15

That was my pregnancy craving many years ago, Popping!
Many sympathies, I used to get quite —deranged— upset if I didn’t have one punnet ready to eat and one ripening in at all times.

Flatwhite101 · 15/09/2019 17:16

Ripen at home...

Day 1: Solid as a rock
Day 2: Solid as a rock
Day 3: Solid as a rock
Days 4-15: Solid as a rock
Day 16: Mouldy stinking mush

Inebriati · 15/09/2019 17:20

Its just a way to sell unripe nectarines. They'll never ripen properly, they'll be rock hard and sour one day, dry and floury the next.

Pukkatea · 15/09/2019 17:20

Ripen at home fruit needs to be put next to apples - they release the gas that is used to ripen fruits in warehouses.

AgeLikeWine · 15/09/2019 17:21

Marketing, and in particular market segmentation.

Supermarkets sell unripe fruit so they can justify charging a premium price for ‘ripe and ready to eat’ fruit.

BeanBag7 · 15/09/2019 17:41

I think it's great. I like to buy fruit and veg from my local coop in the evening when they reduce the out of date stock by 75%. So a punnet of nectarines is only 25p or something. Even though they're past their "best before date" they are only just starting to ripen!

Original poster
PoppingOneOutIn2020 · 15/09/2019 17:47

What the point in a best before date... of they're not 'best' before that date..

Baffled.

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Actionhasmagic · 15/09/2019 17:52

We buy ripe at home bananas for the week! If I wanted a banana to eat that day I would have to buy from a smaller local shop. But in the weekly shop I like ripe at home