I feel really bad for fruits and vegetables that are “ugly”. It doesn’t taste different and you could use them as juice or pickling. But regardless of what you use them for, farmers can’t get the same price for “uglies” as they can with “beautiful” fruits and vegetables. The labor is the same and the overall costs to them are the same. They just look different.
So they have to jack up the prices on “pretty” and lower the price on “uglies”.
Yeah, that really sucks for farmers. Sometimes it’s a case of variance based on genetic foibles of specific plant varieties, but I’ve been told that it’s sometimes a result of the plant’s reaction to some kind of pathogen (mold, bacteria, fungus, etc.). Some of them just grow into weird shapes despite being 100% A-OK.
I feel really bad for fruits and vegetables that are “ugly”. It doesn’t taste different and you could use them as juice or pickling. But regardless of what you use them for, farmers can’t get the same price for “uglies” as they can with “beautiful” fruits and vegetables. The labor is the same and the overall costs to them are the same. They just look different.
So they have to jack up the prices on “pretty” and lower the price on “uglies”.
While I wholeheartedly agree with you, this feels like a metaphor for life…
Yeah…I was going to make a dating joke but felt like that hit a little too close to home 😂
Yeah, that really sucks for farmers. Sometimes it’s a case of variance based on genetic foibles of specific plant varieties, but I’ve been told that it’s sometimes a result of the plant’s reaction to some kind of pathogen (mold, bacteria, fungus, etc.). Some of them just grow into weird shapes despite being 100% A-OK.
A lot of times they even taste better, too.