re: #440 sattv4u2

heh,, not us,,,we would sit on the back stairs and eat stuff my grandmother would take right out of her garden

Tomatoes,,, pears ,, grapes (although she took most of those to make her wine)

That’s actually way less of an issue. Anything that fresh just won’t have the time to develop much of anything bacteria wise. Most of it comes down to the fact that most produce now takes a while to get from farm to table and goes through several exchanges. You have the pickers, the packers, the transfer while being in transit and the people that place it out in the store. My mom for instance grew her own onions and set them in dry storage. They lasted for several months but she ran out. The ones she buys now at the grocery store aren’t lasting that long without starting to spoil. A couple of weeks tops.