Peaches

Last weekend I went to my favorite Farm Market to get some early peaches. They only had Sweet Scarletts and Sentrys available - neither are my favorite - but I took home some Sweet Scarletts.

Now, in the peach world you can pick from white or yellow peaches and low-acid hybrids or heirloom fruit with flavor. I prefer yellow heirloom peaches. They're robust, with plenty of peachy tang, along with gracious sweetness. My favorite peaches are Red Havens, Lorings and Blakes, with Red Havens far out in front of the other two.

Low-acid and white peaches taste watered-down to me. They're like Nutrasweet is to sugar. They give a shallow impression that you're eating a real peach, but the whole peach experience isn't there. Generally I'd rather drink Hi-C Peach Drink than eat nasty, pale, low-acid, hybrid peaches. Yuk!

Sadly, Sweet Scarletts fall into the low-acid peach category. They're kind'a peachy, but they lack for much, flavor-wise. But the Red Havens will be ready in another two weeks, so I don't have much longer to wait for sweet, high summer peaches. Then I'll do as Neil Young once advised Stephen Stills (although I suspect he might have had something else in mind):

"Eat a peach."