If ya have maters and cukes, all you need for perfection is lopes and melons. I personally like Dukes on my maters but they go down alone just as well.
I think it's a Southern thing.
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If ya have maters and cukes, all you need for perfection is lopes and melons. I personally like Dukes on my maters but they go down alone just as well.
I think it's a Southern thing.
I'ts the same with maters... store bought have no taste. Our first crop is in and we have been living off salad and BLT's. My favourite snack is a mater and a chunk of melon.
Maters, cucumbers, sweet seeded melons.
God what fond memories they bring back, too bad kids these days will miss the taste of honest ones.
Todays maters from store crunches like an apple when you bite into them.
Seedless melons are completely tasteless.
Cucumbers are skinny and have very little taste, and about 1.00 each.
Sure miss the old days.
The local farmer (tailgate at the market) has been my go to for years. This year he has a different name brand and their like a decorated stump. They're woodie and no flavor at all.
Went to a local produce stand and there was a whole table piled with as good a tomato as I've ever eaten. They remind me of the "Better Boy" that my Dad raised when I was a child. He also had cantaloupes as sweet as sugar and melons with taste.
Guess I found a new regular source. When I went back this morning he had a table full of fresh white cukes.
I'm ready to buy stock in his stand.