jfain wrote:I love stuffed peppers but I haven't made them in years because I'm peeved at how much the grocery store wants to charge me for peppers most of the time. I just don't understand why they are so danged expensive. Anyway when my pepper plants start producing I will be making stuffed peppers. I'm with Cathy, I like to do mine with tomato sauce.
As a kid I grew up working on the farms of my relatives. We had a bit of everything, dairy, chickens, hogs, sweet corn, potatoes and even fields of Gladiolas.
During the summer months I would go to the farmers market in Albany NY with a truck load of produce with my Uncle. I would also pick up produce at the market to bring home for the family that wasn't grown. We did grow peppers but not enough for major consumption.
I still remember the bushel baskets I would come home with full of peppers that cost then, about 10.00 a bushel.
At the farmers market I would take a break each morning and go into an on site diner and have breakfast. to this day I still remember the buyers from major super markets sitting in a booth nearby. They would all get together and plot how they could rip off the farmers. They would all decide on some really cheap price to offer for a certain item and all agree to stick to that price. For instance, sweet corn. A bag of sweet corn held 52 ears of corn. The buyers would decide to only offer the farmers 2.00 per bag of corn. They knew that the farmers had to sell their loads of corn because taking a load of corn back home wasn't an option. Sweet corn had to be sold fresh. No one wanted to buy old corn. Usually on a farm if a customer wanted some we would pick it fresh.
Of course going to a supermarket later, the price the store was selling it for didn't reflect the price the cheap SOB's paid for it.