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A lemon, lemon

fourandsixpants — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:19:52 GMT

Shopping at my local Woolies, wanted 1 x lemon ......horrified to find all 3 differently packaged items containing lemons were ALL IMPORTED FROM USA

single (tiny) lemons IMPORTED from USA

String bags of (tiny) lemons IMPORTED from USA

String bags of (tiny) lemons and (tinier) limes , limes from Australia and lemons IMPORTED from USA.

I will call into a friends tomorrow morning and ask for a few from her tree.

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joz*garage — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 16:40:24 GMT

i grow my own

slightly differs to what you buy, it's a miniture variety, kinda sweetish

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dwilke33 — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 16:45:34 GMT

Two lemon trees and one lime tree in my backyard......in the USA.

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fourandsixpants — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 16:51:13 GMT

.....no worries maaaate!.....just that with all the unemployment banter cannot understand for the life of me why Woolworths, purport to be The Fresh Food People offer us IMPORTED lemons!!

I want LOCAL LEMONS PLEASE!!.....I do not have room to plant a citrus tree or I would have. Got cumquat tree growing in a pot. Lemon did not work out in a pot.

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fayekinnitt — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:00:15 GMT

Could be just an availability thing:

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aps1080 — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:44:08 GMT

A time existed when fruit was seasonal, it came and went iin the shops.

Now we spend milions shipping it all over the world so it is never out of stock.

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fourandsixpants — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:49:22 GMT

..... the lemon trees in Bunbury have lemons on them atm.....yet a 'chart' states this is a 'grey area' ref availability

Does not compute

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aps1080 — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:58:41 GMT

Some trees seem to have lemonds at odd times. One of our trees at my parents house was the same.

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dwilke33 — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:59:45 GMT

@paintsew007 wrote:
.....no worries maaaate!.....just that with all the unemployment banter cannot understand for the life of me why Woolworths, purport to be The Fresh Food People offer us IMPORTED lemons!!

I want LOCAL LEMONS PLEASE!!.....I do not have room to plant a citrus tree or I would have. Got cumquat tree growing in a pot. Lemon did not work out in a pot.

paintsew, We worry about imports here too, but mostly those from China. I don't ever buy garlic imported from China....they grow it using human poop.

Most of our grocery stores here in the US say where the fruit or vegetable was grown. I always found it strange to see some oranges imported from Mexico or South America when Florida is the orange growing capitol of the world. I guess Florida is busy exporting to Mexico and South America....doesn't make much sense to me.

I prefer locally grown too and try to support our local farmer whenever I can.

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fourandsixpants — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:08:06 GMT

yes, I don't buy F & V grown in China .....nor does my Chinese sis-in-law!! She was the one that educated me on NOT to buy Chinese imported fresh goods and the reason you stated. It is true 'poop veg' !! *eeeuuuuuuwW!

New Zealand has a recent Trade agreement thingy with China.....and NZ import a LOAD of F & V into their country....which in turn NZ exports out.....and quite a lot to Australia!! Hence the reason why I NEVER buy anything labelled from NZ and especially when label states that could be made up of imported and local ingredients from NZ.

I used to always buy NZ kiwi fruit.....years back it was a beautiful, juicy and softish fruit.....now they are tasteless, often sour and definitely hard as golf balls......'flattish' too rather than bulbous. I suspect these kiwi fruit now come from China -to- NZ -to- Australia.

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aps1080 — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:08:26 GMT

" I always found it strange to see some oranges imported from Mexico or South America when Florida is the orange growing capitol of the world. "

We import Oranges from overseas because it is cheaper and the fruit in Mildura is left to rot.

A stink got kicked up one year and Coles or Wollies took them and dumped the huge picking crate on the floor

and stuck a sign on it saying .99c a kg. They didn't last long.

They also buy OJ Concentrate from South America and ship it to Mildura and it costs 3 cents a litres,

delivered from half way across the world. 3 cents.

Those figures came from a fruit grower in Mildura.

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fourandsixpants — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:13:29 GMT

that truly 'sucks'

!!!!!!

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tcmsecretuseid — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:13:48 GMT

I posted a picture of Lemonade on the photo thread. The small lemons are from a friends tree, and the huge lemons are from my tree.

Mine are still a little green, but still taste good. USA lemons.

I don't blame you for not wanting to buy lemons(imported from the U.S.), when they are grown locally.

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artfulcreations4all — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:52:23 GMT

Ick, lemons!

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the_bob_delusion — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 20:21:15 GMT

I do that too. I go on youtube and watch babies eat lemon.

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icyfroth — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 20:28:47 GMT

I'm always on the lookout for locally grown lemons. Sometimes ppl bring them to work if they have lemon trees at home, sometimes I get a bag full of them from my Mother in Law who gets them from her neighbour.

I go through about 3 lemons a week, use the juice for salad dressing and like lemon in my tea.

Nothing against our American friends, but I don't buy American citrus when our own orchards have been ploughed into the ground.

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aps1080 — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 20:31:13 GMT

We won't have a citrus industry at the rate we are going.

Might not even have a fruit industry either.

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the_bob_delusion — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 20:36:37 GMT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YBheuHma8I

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icyfroth — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 20:37:23 GMT

Aus industry, both agriculture and manufacturing has been systematically dismantled over the last 50 years or so.

All we'll have soon is the mining industry, and that's not even ours anymore.

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lionrose.7 — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 21:27:37 GMT

I live in Kiwi fruit country here and NO we do not import Kiwi fruit from China.

Do you actually think the kiwi fruit growers here would put up with that what a load of **bleep**.

I have never seen fruit from China in the super market here, how ever when I was in QLD I saw Oranges from china for sale in the super market.