Our pal Marie sent us an email yesterday asking about places that deliver fresh fruit. Marie works at a library, and there are cookies delivered every day, but every once in a while, they get fruit instead of cookies and everyone seems much happier. So, Marie asked us, are there places that deliver fresh fruit right to your door every day? There totally are! Fruit Guys is a San Francisco-based company that delivers to homes, offices, and schools across this great nation. That’s great and all, but it seems a little weird that there aren’t smaller local fruit delivery services all over the place that take food from local farms to local people every day (or week). Somebody should totally start that business (hint hint).
Which brings me to my next rant. One of the things that really bugs me about our crappy food system is the idea of buying in bulk. It’s fine for things like grains, or dried fruit that will keep for a while, but as a rule, we expect to buy food as infrequently as possible, and to stock up on food when we do. So we get food with lots of preservatives to make that possible. Really, the whole idea doesn’t make much sense. I really like the idea of having fresh food delivered daily, especially in big cities. I think milkmen are pretty cool. You get a small amount of milk every day or every couple of days, you drink it before it goes bad, it works out. Food goes bad, that’s just what it does, and by trying to buy things like fruit and vegetables in bulk, we’re pretty much asking to get our food saturated with preservatives. Fruit delivery sounds like an excellent idea to me (or daily trips to the grocery store if you prefer) I think offices and schools could seriously use a regular supply of fresh fruit straight from the farm. And I think we should readjust our eating and buying habits to stop trying to stock up on fruits and vegetables. Fruit only stays fresh for so long, no matter what the supermarket would like you to think, so it makes perfect sense to have a little but of fruit delivered every day or every few days (or to go out and buy it) eat it before it goes bad, and get more. That’s the schedule the fruit works on, so why not adjust to it?
let’s make this happen.
