Thread: Finally found black seedless grapes.

Andy wrote:
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> Finally found black seedless grapes.
>
> At the produce market they had black grapes. I tried one. It wasn't as
> sweet as I'd heard. It also wasn't very juicy, almost grainy. They must
> have been there a little too long and the two boxes had been picked over
> pretty well. The green and red grapes boxes outnumbered the black grapes by
> about 5:1 each.
>
> Bought a bag of red seedless instead.
>
> Andy

Try to choose grape bunches with the greenest/plumpest possible stems.
That's the best indicator of relative freshness in the supermarket. It's
not a guarantee of sweetness, though.

Arri London <[email protected]> wrote:

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>
> Andy wrote:
>>
>> Finally found black seedless grapes.
>>
>> At the produce market they had black grapes. I tried one. It wasn't
>> as sweet as I'd heard. It also wasn't very juicy, almost grainy. They
>> must have been there a little too long and the two boxes had been
>> picked over pretty well. The green and red grapes boxes outnumbered
>> the black grapes by about 5:1 each.
>>
>> Bought a bag of red seedless instead.
>>
>> Andy
>
> Try to choose grape bunches with the greenest/plumpest possible stems.
> That's the best indicator of relative freshness in the supermarket.
> It's not a guarantee of sweetness, though.


Arri,

Thanks. I never knew that!

Best,

Andy