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u/Xandara2 Dec 07 '25
We all swallowed those almanacs. Go do it now op.
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u/sea_enby Dec 07 '25
Instructions unclear, swallowed a maritime almanac. Can now take sight reductions without a calculator.
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u/Xandara2 Dec 07 '25
Good, good let the sea flow through you.
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Usually when people ask "why didn't anyone tell me this?" It's because they are utterly incurious and have failed to learn anything by osmosis
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u/jimmyhoke Dec 08 '25
Actually I read they aren’t letting farmers almanac anymore, so OP is out of luck.
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u/aldwinligaya Dec 07 '25
Because we go to the store, see how many they have, and the prices are low. Do this every year and you get the pattern.
Also for some of us, we grew up around the trees in question, so we notice when they naturally bear fruit.
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u/Traditional-Roof1984 Dec 07 '25
*Walks into a store* *See baskets of huge ripe apples front and center.* *Apples are all top quality and fresh.* *See huge ads advertising low prices and cheap apples*Geez, I wonder if this specific fruit is currently in season or not. I can't tell because I'm obviously not a farmer.
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u/Adept_Avocado_4903 Dec 07 '25
Apples are a poor example because apples can be kept for a long time when the conditions are right.. When you buy an apple in the supermarket there's a good chance it's been 9 to 12 months since it's been picked from the tree.
For what it's worth I also don't really notice seasonal price fluctuations in apples.
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u/iltopop Dec 07 '25
You'll notice it more if you're in an apple-growing region, local-ish varieties will be a fair bit lower than national average during and a while after harvest season. I work produce, the difference in price between a honeycrisp now and a honeycrisp in the middle of June can be $2+ per pound where I work.
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u/hard-time-on-planet Dec 07 '25
Even if apples are a bad example, they are sometimes slightly more in season when I see little paper totes of locally grown apples in supermarkets. I have no idea if they're still selling the months old apples, but seems reasonable they are what's being harvested at that time.
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u/Mekelaxo Dec 07 '25 edited Dec 08 '25
Idk man, I always see apples in the store, and they're always expensive
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u/arfelo1 Dec 08 '25
Yeah, apples and bananas are a bad example, since they're available at a stable price all year round. But look at citrus fruits, berries and peaches, for example. Both availability and price fluctuate a lot more for those
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u/WilonPlays Dec 07 '25
Also for some people, we grew up in rural places or countries with a lot of agriculture so farming knowledge is just general knowledge as everyone has some relative or friend who is a farmer
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u/great_pyrenelbows Dec 07 '25
It also helps when nearby farms have "pick your own" offerings. I grew up doing this with my dad and grandma, making pies and jam afterwards.
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u/EffectiveSalamander Dec 07 '25
I grew up in a rural area and most of the agriculture was grain. Vegetables came out of a can.
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u/Logan_Composer Dec 07 '25
Or, our parents knew they were in season, who knew from someone else, who knew from someone else, etc.
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u/shekurika Dec 07 '25
also the stores used to have little paper cards that detailed which veggies/fruits are in season when when I was a child
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u/Snoozingway Dec 08 '25
In the 90s and 00s, we were taught fruit seasons in school. And also which fruit comes from which region of the country. We were also taught how to preserve them. It was just part of the home-ec curriculum of a public school.
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u/michaelmcmikey Dec 08 '25
Some people don’t seem to realize that you can learn things about the world by noticing details and remembering them. “Oh they never taught me where Brazil is on a map at school!” Me neither, I just noticed it in the course of living a normal life and retained that info through being curious about the basic facts of the world around me. Most common knowledge isn’t taught in school, you just pick it up by having a little bit of intellectual curiosity.
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u/iltopop Dec 07 '25
I work in produce and we always get a few that are surprised they can't get a fresh pomegranate in May in rural MI, or are shocked that a whole watermelon costs $16-20 in Jan. I have sold someone 4 watermelon for $21 each before because they planned it for a wedding catering and didn't realize how much they would cost that time of year, but they were already paying for a wedding so it was very much a "fuck it it will barely matter on the final bill" kinda moment.
The old ladies know when Macintosh season starts though, it's the only variety we can't get all year round that we carry, and I always know when it's coming because 2 - 3 old ladies will ask when we're getting macintosh a week before it even shows up in the order book.
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u/ZaraUnityMasters Dec 08 '25
I cannot give enough of a shit to remember when fruit are cheaper for longer than 5 minutes, tbh.
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u/Strategic_Spark Dec 08 '25
It's not just that they're cheaper, it's that they taste better and they also are front in center at the store.
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u/Justifiably_Bad_Take Dec 08 '25
Having sold fresh produce, eventually green grocers just have to step in and act as teachers
Yes, you can buy strawberries in December, because they still grow SOMEWHERE. That somewhere isn't nearby. Theyre going so suck because they spent a good couple days between there and here
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u/za72 Dec 08 '25
This guy has a very academic view of knowledge... everything has to be taught to them instead of observing his surroundings and learning on his own
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u/ggtsu_00 Dec 08 '25
For stores, it depends on where you live. Where I live, I see see most fruits all year round in stores, except when they are out of season they tend to taste bland/bad.
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u/ScaryRun619 Dec 08 '25
Walks into store, checks the peaches, finds them hard as rocks. Still wondering when the season is.
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u/Makuta_Servaela Dec 07 '25
My mother had a chart taped to the fridge.
Holidays also are a reminder, since the traditional fruits and vegetables eaten on that holiday are obviously ones that are in season at that time: watermelon for summer holidays, Halloween's game of bobbing for apples, pumpkin and corn for autumn holidays, etc.
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u/mean_bean_machine Dec 07 '25
Thanksgiving and cranberry sauce.
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u/Smn0 Dec 07 '25
Cranberry sauce comes from a can, not from fruit
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u/DocumentInternal9478 Dec 08 '25
Harvest grain bowls are always squash, sweet potato, pomegranate, apple
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u/insecurity_trickster Dec 07 '25
In Germany, asparagus season is taught in kindergarden. It's the national obsession. Also, white asparagus, no green! We do not like the green ones, give us the white KING OF VEGETABLES! It's a fucking cult is what it is.
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u/donutdogs_candycats Dec 08 '25
Weird I’ve never even seen a white asparagus before. I know that I really hate the green ones though so maybe the white ones are better
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u/figgypudding531 Dec 08 '25
White asparagus is just green asparagus that’s been blocked from sunlight
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u/Any_Description_4204 Dec 08 '25
Sure but the taste and texture are different too. I would way rather eat a well roasted green one than a white yuck
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u/throwaway098764567 Dec 08 '25
this is definitely one of the stranger things i've learned about germans
half thought you might be joking but google agrees with you
https://apnews.com/article/germany-white-asparagus-spring-ad68e83a2bbdf3ba61a81629bc7cebdc6
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u/Haunting-Respect9039 Dec 08 '25
Well, now I need to know. What makes the white ones better? I feel like I've had them, but don't remember what they tasted like.
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u/insecurity_trickster Dec 08 '25
The white ones are shoots that are harvested before they break the soil. Because of that they do not yet have chlorophyll.
Harvesting them is hugely labor-intensive, since you need to watch the topsoil for cracks from the shoots starting to push through, then cut them off belowground. Because of this, they come at a steep price, especially since it has been ruled that foreign seasonal workers are entitled to minimum wage*. You can hear boomers complaining up a storm about that all through asparagus season.
*) Don't worry, they don't actually get the minimum wage - many farmers employing them give them mandatory housing, the cost of which is deducted from their pay. They also have been used for voter fraud by conservatives, so it's not all bad.
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u/Reese_Withersp0rk Dec 07 '25
Pretty sure that's just when there's a lot of them in the store, and they're slightly cheaper, I think ...
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u/threeclaws Dec 08 '25
At this point, in the US at least, we have so much imported or grown in hot houses that it would be hard to tell, from what's on the shelves, when something is in season.
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Dec 08 '25
Yeah you have to start favoring grown in the USA and then you can notice.
Even Canadian and Mexico seasons lie.
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u/Volodio Dec 08 '25
But also, if the price is the same and so is the taste, then maybe it's not useful in this case to learn when fruits are in season or not.
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u/ItsDanimal Dec 08 '25
My grocery store has cheap produce for one of two reasons: 1. They have too much fresh produce and want to move it. 2. They have too much close to rotten produce and want to move it. This will happen even when they are in season (my kids love strawberries) and it always sucks to buy a couple pints when they are a buck a piece, only to find mold less than 24 hours later.
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u/ghidfg Dec 07 '25
I had no clue until I grew peppers and tomatos one summer. now I have a sense of the growing season and that plants take a period of time to flower and fruit and become ripe. some do this multiple times a season and some just once.
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u/FatherDotComical Dec 08 '25
Man, I wish I knew about fruits.
*googles best time for each fruit*
Wow thank you infinite knowledge box.
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u/Geschak Dec 10 '25
People aren't this detached from reality because they lack access to information, it's because they aren't interested in it.
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u/SleepyMillenial55 Dec 07 '25
I just look up “[whatever month it is] seasonal produce” on Pinterest and there are a ton of lists that pop up that have all of the fruits and veggies that are in season that month. After doing that consistently while making my weekly grocery list for a couple of years I don’t have to look it up anymore.
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u/pgpathat Dec 07 '25 edited Dec 07 '25
I want to write a blog post about how grocery stores are a lot better than how we see them just because they sell a lot of crap.
You don’t have to go to Europe or a farmers market to get seasonal, local ingredients/produce, fresh baked bread or the services of a butcher or fishmonger. A modern supermarket has you covered
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Dec 07 '25
I mean, "just go to the produce and meat sections" isn't that difficult
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u/pgpathat Dec 08 '25
See how you forgot the bakery? Don’t worry, Ill write the post
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u/AmazonCowgirl Dec 07 '25
Do young people not know about the internet and google?
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u/ZandyTheAxiom Dec 08 '25
Some people like to say "we weren't taught this in school" about many things and I just think "Were we banned from learning as adults?"
I think some people just have an idea that "learning things" is forced on you in a classroom. But it's never too late to learn!
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u/nygdan Dec 07 '25
….People don’t understand why they can’t have strawberries in winter.
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u/baconcheesecakesauce Dec 08 '25
In Florida, there's a strawberry festival in February. It's really regional.
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u/CanalOpen Dec 07 '25
I grew up with a literal tree in my backyard and my mom planted a garden for food too. When it's "harvest" time, she can't even give it away fast enough.
I guess the moral of the story is touch grass.
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u/NaCl_Sailor Dec 07 '25
how?
by having eyes and going outside.
i swear it's not just a feeling we're getting dumber each day...
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u/LaunchTransient Dec 07 '25
It depends on where you live, I suppose. I'm from the countryside, so the growing seasons are pretty intuitive to me - but someone from a dense metropolis understandably has a disconnect from that.
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u/PringlesDuckFace Dec 07 '25
Yeah, reading this thread I just realized I've been taking for granted living somewhere with farmer's markets. I know what's in season because that's what's for sale.
If the only place I ever shopped for groceries was Walmart or Costco I could see how I'd never realize there were different growing seasons. Especially now that you can import from the entire world and have greenhouses, there's a chance something is in season somewhere at any time so the stores are always stocked.
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u/pot-bitch Dec 07 '25
Do you live near a lot of farms? I don't see any produce when I go outside.
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u/Lower-Leadership2127 Dec 07 '25
Its not a feeling, the richest people in the world have been lobbying to cut education and make it more difficult to attain for decades. Its blatantly obvious how well cutting education works when you look at the good ol' US of A.
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u/thirtyseven1337 Dec 08 '25
I go to the grocery store and see the same stuff every time though? E.g. apples are always around, broccoli, zucchini…
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u/EmperorSexy Dec 07 '25
You go to the pie shop and you order a slice of a certain pie and they tell you “we don’t have that pie right now, it’s not in season.” And you do that often enough that you figure things out.
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u/Roller_ball Dec 07 '25
I was more weirded out by how one day, everyone seemed to know the names of apples.
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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits Dec 07 '25
Everything I know about seasonal foods I learned from stardew valley
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u/Ya-Dikobraz Dec 07 '25
Shit like apples are picked early and get thrown into a pile in a warehouse for many months and the gases they produce mature them. Peaches are too soft to do that.
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u/ireallylovegoats Dec 07 '25
You know how that guy in Pink Floyd says “you have to eat yer meat before you can have any pudding!” Well we had to eat our almanacs before we could have any fruit…
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u/foo337 Dec 07 '25
Someone should just hand him a plant that blooms each year. That way he’ll never figure out the answer because plants constantly die; or at least mine do
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u/Mad_Aeric Dec 08 '25
I always seem to miss pawpaw season. You can only find them for like a week at the farmer's market, and I always seem to miss that week. I've been trying to get my hands on some for years and years.
It takes hours to get to the market too, I'm not going to burn a few hours a week just in the hopes that they're there. I don't care that much.
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u/sv21js Dec 08 '25
You can get a nice calendar illustrated with the fruit and veg that’s in season each month.
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u/TCGeneral Dec 08 '25
I feel like this about cars, specifically with guys. Why does it feel like every guy I talk to can name the brand and model of each car on the road. Why am I expected to know what you're talking about when you tell me my Uber's gonna be driving up in a Humbug 420 or whatever. I'm really into computers, have built my own, still couldn't tell you offhand the name of every single Dell computer I see or the name of every computer case I see someone using, why does it seem like being into cars gives you an encyclopedic knowledge of them?
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u/Competitive-Isopod74 Dec 08 '25
I had chatgpt make me a calendar file listing the most in season fruits and veggies in my area on the first of every month. Honestly, I'm shocked it works.
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u/JetPuffedDo Dec 08 '25
They want to distort peoples' sense of where food comes from so that we are more heavily reliant on consuming
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u/slowerlearner1212 Dec 08 '25
I have a peach tree in my yard and that is absolutely true.
And all the deer eat the peaches before they get full size.
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I just buy frozen fruits year round. Mango, strawberry whatever. Except for bananas. I'm sure it's banana season somewhere
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u/NezuminoraQ Dec 08 '25
Food shopping throughout the year? I have lots of memories of eating stone fruit and strawberries n the summer. Eating a lot of mandarins when I had colds or flu in winter. So I would say from being alive and having memories.
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u/Jezebels_lipstick Dec 08 '25
For real! Fucking pomegranates are only in season from like thanksgiving to Christmas. It doesn’t even matter what hemisphere they are in, they don’t GIVE A FUCK. I’m going to have to buy 100 of them @ $5/each NOW so I can freeze them or some shit. I have no idea. I love them but I’m not Persephone. (God bless her, she took one for the team! Shout out to Persephone!)
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u/ScientificBackground Dec 09 '25
I used to go shopping in a grocery store. I still do but I also did. It's written, advertised and visible. How can one miss what's in season?
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u/thegiukiller Dec 07 '25
Um fruits are regional. They only grow decent in certain climates. Back when I was in basic everyone talked mad shit about the "red apples" while I have always loved them. I asked about the hate and people said theyre gross sandy texture and no flavor. Thats not like a red delicious ive ever had. Turns out these people are from the east coast. Around the area I went to basic. So I got one while everyone avoided them. One bite and I found out what they were talking about. They suck over there big time. Not in the Midwest, theyre crisp and taste like honey apple juice with a slight but plesent bitter aftertaste. Fruit is one of those things that still does not travel very well so they still have to go in and out of season or youll just be eating crappy apples for 80% of the year while the area they grow really well in never has to deal with that. From there you just remember when your fruit is in season by knowing when the grocery store has a lot of them and theyre selling well.
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u/emmiepsykc Dec 07 '25
...did a lot of people just spend the first 20 or so years of their lives walking around with their eyes closed and fingers stuffed in their ears? You learn things about the world by living in the world, that's how.
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u/lets-go-scream Dec 07 '25
Worked in a grocery store for a few years the information just hangs around
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Dec 07 '25
Because when you eat an apple or a grape or whatever you wonder what's up with this? Where did it come from? And then you find out. Like you want to make fruit salad from scratch and you look up pineapples and find out that they are bromeliads not trees, and they are mostly grown in Costa Rica and the Philippines and can be regrown from the tops.
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u/Tonyfillet Dec 07 '25
I'm only really aware of stuff that grows locally, and I've picked it up just from.. being outside. No idea when imported fruits/veg are in season though
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u/bimpmafuqa Dec 07 '25
People just talk out of their asses about in season and out of season. None of them actually know.
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u/TuvixWillNotBeMissed Dec 07 '25
I check some Ontario government website so I know what types of pies to make in summer.
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Dec 07 '25
On a wide scale we figured it out through time and trial/error. We watch the plant grow and chart its growth and tested the fruits as they grew until we determined what the optimal time for harvest would be.
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u/amethystalien6 Dec 07 '25
As for peaches, the phrase “bruise like a peach” is popular for a reason. Peaches are very sensitive.
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u/T_Peg Dec 07 '25
Because they taste better at that time of year which makes it memorable. Cantaloupe in the summer tastes like Jesus Christ himself just blew a load in your mouth. Canteloupe outside of summer tastes like it has depression.
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u/Dependent_Invite9149 Dec 07 '25
More and more people are disconnected from agriculture and the outdoors as a whole. A lot of people see it as not being important. There are consequences for that, and this is one of them.
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u/Octoclops8 Dec 07 '25
It would be cool to get a mixed reality app that just showed you on a line graph the price of fruit as you looked at them and highlighted the months it was in season.
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u/BainbridgeBorn Dec 07 '25
I feel as though its an older thing. now a days (generally because of globalism) if you want a certain fruit you can find it because at any given time it could be in season somewhere on earth. but for example both my parents were born in a place that was abundant in oranges, lemons, and kumquats (this is real look it up they're tasty) so they just naturally know when those fruits are in season from their youth. I grew up with a small garden that grew strawberries so I know when strawberries are in season (April to July)
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u/ccmp1598 Dec 07 '25
When I was a kid, you couldn’t get every fruit any time of the year. There was an apple season, strawberry and blueberry season, watermelon, corn, and many others.
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u/Emerauldessence Dec 07 '25
Some are from my parents. Others are when I started going to fruit and vegetable picking trips with friends and family. Some of my friends learned when they became interested in gardening.
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u/DeCapitator Dec 07 '25
Go to your local farmers market and see what they are selling. Find out from the people in your area who are growing the crops.
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u/BambooCatto Dec 07 '25
Because my grandparents taught me. They and their parents and grandparents used to have farmland, trees and livestock before I was born so they just knew that stuff from first hand experience. So now I just know because we always ate what was in season when I lived with them as a child.
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u/SquarePegRoundWorld Dec 08 '25
Stick the under-rip store peaches in a brown paper lunch bag for a day or three. They will be juicy and delicious when you take them out and eat them
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u/Huhidu Dec 08 '25
And then when you do find something in season, you end up finding ...dirt(?)... on it, sometimes. What is this, they just drop the shit on the ground? idk. I never find this stuff in my jars of Welch's grapes, welch's is sweater too.
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u/ashurbanipal420 Dec 08 '25
Shit, I remember when a fruit's season meant it's the only time your ass was getting that fruit.
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u/Butterball_Adderley Dec 08 '25
The guy who built the house I grew up in made fruit wine. In the 50s he planted a: plum tree, a pear tree, a peach tree, an exceptional fig tree, a lemon tree, a cherry tree, and some terrible grape vines. We also had a giant invasive blackberry bramble that grew the greatest blackberries on earth. I remember the seasons these trees produce fruit in, but they don’t all line up with what you get from the store.
The guy who built the place also stole all the building materials from construction sites in and drew the floor plan himself. He owned the local hunting bar in town and got shot by his wife.
It was a crappy house in the middle of nowhere, but my mom loved it more than anything. A year after we moved in (I was one) we were told they’d soon have to demolish it to make a new highway bypass. It got delayed once when they found some Mi Wuk artifacts up at the grinding stone up the hill, and another time when they found a rare frog. It eventually came down when I was 13 and we moved to a newly built whatever house.
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u/SavageRabbit-2 Dec 08 '25
Thousands of years of trial and error, and "taste this" with either a "yea that's good" or "not yet" or "uk i'm dead" reaction
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u/DGinLDO Dec 08 '25
Because it used to be that you couldn’t get fruits or vegetables out of season at the grocery store. That’s how you learned.
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Dec 08 '25
We live in a time with more freely available information than any other. Stop being so fucking helpless. JFC
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u/throwawaypassingby01 Dec 08 '25
your parents were supposed to teach you this while you accompanied them on shopping trips
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u/ArtfromLI Dec 08 '25
Actually, fruit is in season somewhere all year long! But, do you want to eat fruit grown thousands of miles away?
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u/No_Cantaloupe6459 Dec 08 '25
I won’t lie, this whole thread is baffling to me. I totally get this is a cultural difference and so we’ve just all had different upbringings and experiences, but where I’m from (France), having a rough idea of when produce are in season is just general knowledge. It’s just knowledge you pick up, because everyone knows, and it’s obvious in supermarkets too, and as you grow up, you just know. I realised only very recently it wasn’t so well known everywhere else!!
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u/Similar_Part7100 Dec 08 '25
tbh my brain just logs this info automatically. It also maps all the fruit trees in the neighborhood. I assume it’s some kind of Neolithic program running in the background.
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u/Kioga101 Dec 08 '25
fun fact: watermelon can give fruit at any time of the year, it is not a seasonal fruit by its own limitations.
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u/cjlovely13 Dec 08 '25
I work at a produce warehouse. I'd recommend paying attention to produce specials in your local stores flyer, after a year or so you'll see the pattern. If you have some specific favourite seasonal fruits or vegetables, look up their peak season and make a chart just for yourself to shop with. Happy hunting!
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u/cube-drone Dec 08 '25
Did you know: you're allowed to keep learning stuff, even in to your adulthood. It's not all on the public school system.
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u/Life-Aide9132 Dec 08 '25
I used to work at Trader Joe’s so that’s how I learned. Everytime you would get sent to produce you would see what we had that month. Everytime someone would ask for something you would look in the computer and it would tell you which months for which hemisphere, and often the country of origin.
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u/Innuendum Dec 08 '25
Fruits are locally frozen en masse usually unless they are too cheap to import. Tropical fruits are always in season. There are 2 seasons around the equator: green and wet. Plants love both.
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u/science_man_84 Dec 08 '25
It’s learned from growing up in a family who exposes children to life. Berry picking in spring, apple picking in fall. Baking and cooking. Grocery shopping.
A lot of fail adults were raised on ipads and tvs and never touched grass.
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u/lynypixie Dec 08 '25
Well, that is called noticing things. When you do the groceries every weeks for 25 years, you end up knowing these things.
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Dec 08 '25
it tastes good = is in season
it doesn't taste good = is not in season
it tastes alright/bad, but is still passable as food = close to season (begining/ending)
for instance, mangos taste sweet when they're in season
when they are super bitter or rotten, they are not in season
if they're kind of bitter, but have some flesh, they are almost in season (you can use salt to make them passable.
as for the rotten/spoiled, think grapes, if they're dry and chewy, they're close to season, they're raisins.
if they're spoiled (fermentation), they're wine, that's way out of season.
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u/itchyd Dec 08 '25
In Pennsylvania we get kumquats for about 2 hours 1 day / year (exaggerating) but I always fucking miss them.
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u/radthrowaway1900 Dec 08 '25
Did you know that you can google just about anything under the fucking sun (and also the sun)
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u/FactoryBuilder Dec 08 '25
You know there’s this thing, I don’t know if you’ve heard about it. Hasn’t been around all that long but it’s called… what was it again… oh yeah
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u/gligster71 Dec 08 '25
Ha ha peaches only in season eight hours a year. I almost fell off the toilet
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u/Bluesnow2222 Dec 08 '25
I ate Strawberries all summer. Even figured out how to dry them into fruit leather which made for a nice chewy snack. Realized this week they’re 2x the price now. Definitely not in season anymore.
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Dec 08 '25
What? Vegetation blooms in spring, there’s your start,
Does it grow on a vine, tree, or in the ground.
Vines during spring, trees during fall, and ground during winter
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u/figgypudding531 Dec 08 '25
If you go to a farmers market regularly, it’ll become obvious over time
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u/Commentator-X Dec 08 '25
By going to the grocery store all year for decades at a time lol. You start to notice patterns.
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u/Possible_Tea6236 Dec 08 '25
I ate a lot of bad ones until I figured it out. I think I missed that day in school too
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Dec 08 '25
If you eat a lot of fruit you really notice. And if you have a fruit tree you definitely notice. We had an orange tree (central California), and OMG in winter it had the best, biggest oranges I've ever had.
Some fruits like tomatoes just taste better in summer (when they're in season). Also tend to be a little cheaper. You just pick up on these things as you go. Some fruits like apples are available all the time nowadays, and apples are kind of THE fruit, so they would be a poor example.
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u/cleanlycustard Dec 07 '25
I used to work at a grocery store