what do they do to peaches to make them keep? bought some in michigan

[mopinko]

last weekend from a little farmstand. i do not know how they have peaches 2 months after peach season. they are ok. texture is good, flavor is not much. so i am assuming they are picked green. and they taste a little salty. so do they dunk them or something?
if i had had any really good peaches this year, i wouldn't have even been tempted. but i just didn't hit them.

got to think of something to do with them for dinner tonight, so they can get out of the way for the fresh picked apples that gawd intended us to be eating right now.

[grasswire]

1. maybe they aren't grown at the little farm stand

maybe they are getting them from a supplier, elsewhere. This does happen, ya know.

[Warpy]

2. They pick them very green and store them cold and dark

When it's time to go to market, they just truck them in with an ethylene gas bath on the way.

This wouldn't give them a salty flavor, so I'm guessing either they were grown in an area with high mineral water or you're tasting something else.

Out of season peaches are not going to be at peak flavor, ever. You're better off using frozen or canned out of season than paying the premium price for cardboard.

[mopinko]

3. they were cheap and the other stuff was real good.

tomatoes, some pears. they are not that bad. the texture is good.
i am going to cook them somehow. a little brown sugar and some vanilla........

[mopinko]

4. mmmmmm. made a cobbler with some dark chocolate.

masked that little stray flavor, was something different, and was very, very yummy.