Comments on: 2 reader tips and an ask the audience in a pear tree

By: Brent Patton

Brent Patton — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:16:04 +0000

Very nice article thanks for sharing I’m learning alot from your postings thanks

By: Natalie

Natalie — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:21:40 +0000

Well, first of all, your blog title had me picturing your readers perched in a pear tree…but anyway…

I agree with Mom of Three…that the produce has most likely been pretty well mistreated anyway. If I drop something I put back carefully, off to the side if it’s obviously damaged.

Hopefully people are going to look over their produce before they buy it anyway, and will see if it’s damaged.

And of course, WASH IT! :p Because some where along the line it probably picked up some germs.

By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:18:55 +0000

That would be why you wash your produce WELL when you get it home. There’s no telling who has dropkicked it across the department, sneezed/hacked etc on it.

By: Mom of three

Mom of three — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:52:03 +0000

About the fruit, I figure if it traveled from some country in the Caribbean, where it was pushed off the tree with a front loader into a box, was shipped to a holding tank for the grocery store, shipped to the local store’s back dock, stored there and probably moved around a few times, unloaded by a teenage stock boy dumping the box upside down into another box, one more fall to the floor isn’t going to hurt it much. But if it’s in good shape other than my drop, then I just buy it. If it’s already bruised, I set it aside so that others can see it’s no good. But the stock boy probably just puts it right back.

It’s a wonder it’s edible at all.

By: Mom of three

Mom of three — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:38:17 +0000

Well, I missed the mop question, but I disagree with the answer. I use a mop head for the bathrooms and another for the rest of the house and then wash them in hot water after use. I would think that would be far more sanitary than any sponge mop.