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As it's the English apple season once more I bought some English Cox's for my lunches (yes I confess in a supermarket with their perfectly formed non-russetted ones). I'm willing to buy English apples at this time of year as it means they haven't been cold stored, which it seems to me makes them taste all fluffy and horrible. The cripness required by me for Cox's I think comes from the couple of years picking the things (and bramleys & pears) for uni money as lunchtime apple was picked off the tree, rubbed on a jumper and eaten. Then later after uni when doing agency work I was packing the fruit (Kent is big on orchard fruit you know...). My sister also did this a bit for uni money so my mum hates us when we go into a supermarket for fruit and veg as we'll go through the whole lot to avoid bruised apples etc. (if we're going to pay that much it better be decent fruit attitude). Hence on the sight of some English Cox's in apple season .. I wanted some ... and out of interest I had a quick lift up on the crate they were in to see who'd packed them (there's a slip), it was Worldwide Fruit from Canterbury! Hmm I wonder which re-named pack house is that... found out on the internet it's what was EKP (East Kent Packers, they operate the pack houses for a lot of the fruit farms in our area), who I did a lot of my packing for.

... oh and the apple, why it was rather nice and juicy and crisp .. hmm maybe I'll be eating a lot more cox's for a while until we enter cold store season (ugh!)