FNW got me thinking with her yogurt comment the other day. I got talking about it with my best friend and she pointed out that while I eat a lot of yogurt, I will only eat the local brands, Butterwork Farm, Kimball Brook Dairy, etc, and occasionally, for a treat, something like Maple Hill out of New York or Liberte' out of Canada. These are all fabulous brands, and sooooo good. And she is right--I won't eat Hood or Stonyfield or even Cabot. They taste starchy and bland and cloying.
And there are other local brands of things I will choose over a national brand. There is a VT cranberry company that produces the biggest, reddest berries you have ever seen. In cookies or pies or even cranberry sauce, they look like jewels, and a local hydroponic tomato center has massive, delicious tomatoes year round.
I could go one and on!
What foods are produced around where you geeks live that have spoiled you for other brands?
Matteo's salsas. They are made less than 10 miles from us and carried in our local grocery stores.
They are the best salsas. I don't know how big their distribution is, but if you happen to see some try it.
Honey from a friend's hives, still has the real comb in it. Love chewing the comb.
Veggies come from gardens.
Meats from local farms.
We drink Mayfield milk which is produced from cows locally.
We use to get eggs from my uncle but he has gotten rid of his layers so we get Egglands Best eggs.
Don't eat yogurt very much. It makes me gag.
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