Where Are The Indian Oranges, Apples?
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Washington Apples only Rs 150, Australian Apples only Rs 135, or NZ apples only Rs 130. And, oranges too… I have lost count of the varieties of them that are available. Indian varieties are hardly seen… or are they placed such that it is well beyond ones line of sight? I suspect the latter though. In the globalised world while we are integrating into the global market, we have also had to sacrifice the use of some of our taste buds or we have to get used to blander tastes… Globalisation has not meant being exposed to more of Mexican or Thai tastes… but has meant getting neck deep in, what I call and will always call, the tasteless, odourless and colourless food. While I have always staunchly stood by the market forces, I never thought that it would lead to my fellow countrymen falling more for the less tasty food. Walk into a supermarket or a hypermarket and you have only these exotic varieties of fruits staring at you. Everytime I end up asking those at the counters about the plain (and much more tasty) Indian apples. I, many a times, end up with “the season is over sir.” Just to satiate one’s desire to be seen as being ‘in’ one can buy them. But, no matter the price, there’s no dearth of people wanting to buy them. It is also a status symbol to be seen as eating the exotic imported less tasty fruits. Perhaps that’s what the liberalisation imports meant to do. It’s an attack on our taste buds and a colonisation too of our taste buds. And, replacing the finer sense of tastes with less complicated tastes. Put simply, bland food. The imported fruits that many a times dominate the shelves, draw one to them with their good looks but… they flatter to deceive. Once you taste them… it’s difficult to buy them again. It’s not value for money. But, it’s a price well paid while trying to satiate one’s ego and desire to look westernised. |
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August 17th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I’ve always wondered if the pesticide content in imported fruits is any less than the Indian ones. For fruits eaten raw its a big concern and somewhere at the back of my mind is always the thought that maybe the better controlled imported stuff might actually be healthier to eat
August 2nd, 2009 at 6:17 pm
sir,
Indian apples find their way to the factories
which are liked by the growers since they lease out the harvest and no transportation hassels
and cash payments by factories.Indian Apple Jam and mixed fruit jams are available and exported throughout the world priced at par with foreigh products thanks to the standard of Indian food technology.The space is now occupied by Washington and Fiji apples in the shops.
July 31st, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Last time i ate an Indian apple i remember was more than 5 years ago. What these tasteless apples have done is sky rocket the pricess of Indian apples too. I still am able to get some local Oranges (for my 18 month old son — as he likes to drink Indian orange juice some times). I even stopped buying the local young coconuts for the water (with its prices increased 50% every summer — and this is done even before the packaged coconut water has become a rage). I wonder how many more things i have to relinquish before my retirement from this world. Good that i am becoming less attached to these worldly things may be some 20 years quicker than i should have.
July 30th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Armani to Apples!
July 30th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Yes, from Aramani to Apples…!
July 29th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
i totally agree with you……. i think it is we who should be blamed. Because of our show off or liking towards foreign things we buy such stuffs at high rates. I think this is the time INDIA should realise and start using indian things……. it would be helpfull for us only………
July 29th, 2009 at 9:43 am
That is one of the reasons that I avoid the big supermarkets, buy at the local market and you will get your fill of Indian fruits.
The other big reason to avoid these big supermarkets is that none of them allow you to take your grocery bags inside the shop.
July 29th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Yes, you are right…..Even I tried to buy tasty Indian Apples, but didn’t found any where… Instead there are Chile,NZ,WA apples available in super markets as well as even on mobile shops…
July 29th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Yes, you are right…..Even I tried to buy tasty Indian Apples, but didn’t found any where… Instead there are Chile,NZ,WA apples available in super markets as well as even on mobile shops…
July 28th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
We, Indians, are cheap, self-seeking individuals who have no national pride whatsoever, otherwise how would we allow our products to eventually disappear because of our slavish liking for phoren stuff -even if it is imported manure? And, we have a government to match, which bends itself backwords and modifies rules to facilitate Chinese power companies to make 8.5 billion dollars, at the cost of Indian companies.
And, our Prime Minister puts his foot in his mouth trying to please Pakistan regarding Baluchistan.
Why did our true freedom fighters of old ever bother to fight the British? We would probably have been better off as British colony than have the kind ‘freedom’ we have today.
July 28th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Well, we are pathetic aren’t we! Indiscriminate consumption of foreign stuff at the cost of the poor Indian farmer/fruit growers will surely create more slumdogs.
July 27th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Completely agreed Sir !!! Today if I enter any Food/Departmental store I am greeted with imported fruits….gone are the days we tasted original Kashmiri apples….or Dashehri mangoes………the era of scientifically created and coloured fruits is here…and I guess with the popularity it enjoys from most of my fellow countrymen…..it’s here to stay..