If you buy sour grapes 2X in a row are you justified in trying

[seaglass]

the grapes at the grocery store before you buy them?

I figure I get a free grape at the store for every sour grape I bought. What do you think?

P.S. - Does anyone know how to make sour green grapes ripe?

[Random_Australian]

1. 1) No. 2) No. 3) No.

[seaglass]

2. Why not? n/t

[Random_Australian]

4. 1)If you lose the scratchee lottery twice in a row you are not entitled

to scratch 'em all beforehand. However, in this case it is more you are not allowed to despoil something someone else wants to buy.

2) They would just have to raise the price. It is not twice as cheap for them if you eat half instore after all.

3) If something continues to ripen on its own after picking, there are ways of accelerating that. If it does not, you can no more ripen it than you can unfry an egg. (But there might be some process to make it more palatable)

[Guaranteed]

6. Yeah, but she wasn't buying a lottery ticket.

She was making a purchase under the understandable assumption that the product she was buying was a quality one.

[seaglass]

7. This store is starting to piss me off. I also bought local

strawberries and when I cleaned them the next day, I had to throw out 1/2 of them because they were rotted.

I still haven't been able to eat artichokes since I found little worms in one that I bought there over a year ago (I stuff the artichokes so it was just luck that I found the worms).

I think a store that sells food has some responsibility for the quality of their food.

[Random_Australian]

9. They do. It is called implicit wararnty here. Breaches of that are serious

here, though I am no lawyer.

Worms in artichokes? YUCK!

[seaglass]

11. Yep, I'm scarred for life - I loved artichokes. I can't blame the worms

on them though, I don't think there was any way they could tell they were in there.

[Kire]

17. Do you live in the inner city?

No offense if you do, it just seems like they are exploiting your neighborhood. Are there any other stores nearby?

[seaglass]

18. No, I live in the suburbs. There are 3 grocery stores in my town

but none are reliable for fruit.

I would think there would be more options in the inner city. For instance if I was in Boston I could go to the farmer's market every weekend and get fresh imported stuff. I would think there would be more produce distributors that would cover a city than what I could get in the suburbs.

[Random_Australian]

8. And? I said that the lottery ticket was not the reason.

Won't hold it against you thoug, no worries.

[Guaranteed]

10. Was just responding to that particular part of your answer.

She has the right to expect a quality product, as do other customers.

I think the store should just give her another bag of grapes, and she should be able to try them first. If they're no good, the store should throw them out anyway instead of leaving them for another customer. If they're good, she can keep the bag.

On edit: I actually like my grapes sour, so I've never had this problem.

[billyskank]

3. I usually find time makes unripe fruit ripe

does it not work for grapes also?

[Random_Australian]

5. Apples and oranges, billy.

The difference between the two is that only one continues to ripen when picked. Some fruits do, some don't, but if they don't there is not anything you can do about it. (IIRC)

[yellowdogintexas]

12. I shop in a store which encourages testing the grapes. And if

you want to know how a particular type of apple, or pear tastes one of the staff will happily cut one up, let you taste it then pass the rest out to other customers.
Handy in a store which carries 10 different types of apples year round, more in the autumn and in pear season usually about 10 kinds of pears.

I used to shop in a store which had small bowls in the grape section with loose grapes in them just for testing the grapes.

[seaglass]

15. We don't have any stores like that around here. We used to

have a produce only store that ALWAYS had ripe fruit but they sold the business a couple years ago. It was more expensive than a grocery store but the quality of the produce was impeccable.

[Sannum]

13. This could be a first...

..A flamewar about sampling a grape:hide:

I see nothing wrong with eating a grape to see if they are okay.

[grasswire]

14. I can tell you how to pick sweeter grapes

Never buy any that are soft. Look for the ones that are the firmest and seem to be packed tight with juice. If you're buying green grapes, look for those that have a slight golden blush but they still must be VERY FIRM. Don't buy green grapes that are small or dark green.

You can always ask the produce guy to pick out some good ones for you. Then, of course, if they aren't sweet you have something to complain about.

[seaglass]

16. They were green grapes, large and firm with a slight yellow

cast (compared to the other grapes) but not yellow enough I guess.

I got excellent green grapes 2 weeks ago at the same store, I should have checked where they came from (maybe Chile) because the new grapes were definitely not from the same place.

Usually I do the sniff test on fruit, I don't buy it if I can't smell it (melons, berries, nectarines etc.) but of course grapes don't smell or if they do, I can't smell them.