{"id":21130,"date":"2025-08-29T20:56:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T19:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21130"},"modified":"2025-09-07T21:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:10:22","slug":"daily_3832_-_i_rescue_plums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/08\/29\/daily_3832_-_i_rescue_plums\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3832 – I rescue plums"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s plum season.<\/p>\n

I’m picky when it comes to fruit – only local plums (and apples and strawberries etc) are worth buying. “Local” here means Swedish ones. I’d totally buy Estonian plums if I was in Estonia now, or Finnish or Norwegian ones if anyone offered them to me. (I assume they grow plums in Finland.) Italian-grown plums and Spanish ones, on the other hand, the kinds you get in a standard supermarket, are flavourless crunchy sugar water. They just don’t taste like plums at all. Like, if you told me to close my eyes and then gave me a bite of one, I don’t know if I would even recognise what fruit it was.<\/p>\n

I want my fruit to be really ripe. I want it to burst in my mouth when I bite into it, and the juices to be near dripping. When Ingrid and Adrian eat fruit, they want them firm and crunchy, almost regardless of fruit – plums, peaches, apricots, kiwis… Well, no crunchy bananas, but they definitely prefer their bananas so green that I find them nearly inedible. When buying for myself, I look for the ripest fruit. I choose the plums that are so juicy and tender that I have to handle them carefully, and gently place them topmost in my shopping bag. I’m pretty sure that I rescue fruit that everybody else skips over, and that the staff would pick out and throw away if they could be bothered to look over the fruit they have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s plum season. I’m picky when it comes to fruit – only local plums (and apples and strawberries etc) are worth buying. “Local” here means Swedish ones. I’d totally buy Estonian plums if I was in Estonia now, or Finnish or Norwegian ones if anyone offered them to me. (I assume they grow plums in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,745,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-food_and_cooking","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21133,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21130\/revisions\/21133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}