Disappearing Damsons

Damsons spotted in New Mills

In conversation t’other day and bemoaning that we never see white blanched celery anymore. The list grew into where are the damsons? What happened to fresh yellow flesh grapefruit everything is pink these days? When did you last see bilberries, or iceberg lettuce?

Next day I was in New Mills, Derbyshire. A pretty little stone built town in the hills. There on a market stall outside the local Spar shop amidst the peppers and potatoes were damsons, and yellow grapefruit. Possibly my shop local policy has me thinking that varieties don’t exist commercially anymore when actually they are still on sale.

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