I, too, am very picky about the quality of vegetables, fruits and meats. I grew up eating foods from my grandparents’ farm–they raised every kind of vegetable most Americans can name, including some that most Americans don’t eat–like eggplant, for example. But I grew up used to going out into the garden and picking corn and boiling it as soon as it was husked, or picking tomatoes and eating them out of hand, still warm from the sun.

They also raised cattle, hogs, chickens and sometimes ducks. They also had a pond for catfish, bass and bluegill, so I grew up knowing what real meat and eggs tasted like. Not the awful, mostly tasteless stuff in the grocery stores now.

I hear you–and I understand. Glad I could call your tastes to mind.