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pauldavidmena
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Taken this afternoon at a supermarket in suburban Boston:
Fortunately blood oranges make for some awfully good margaritas. 
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EnsenadaDr
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Mood: Move on. It is just a chapter in the past, but don't close the book- just turn the page
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I bought a lemon in Albertson's in the San Diego area for 69 cents...crazy!!
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Bob53
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There are lemon, lime, orange and avo groves all around my house. I help myself. That is when my trees are bare.
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DavidE
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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You want reasonable price limones?
Let the autodefenses groups clean out the COYOTES that have been operating with government approval in Guerrero, Michoacan, and Colima. Gobernacion
did ZERO, for 30 years, not PRI. not PAN to clean up the utterly CORRUPT gobernacion del estado de Michoacan. The result was La Familia Michoacana
then their enforcers Los Caballeros Templarios.
BASTA YA!
No more 17% "comision" for my mangos to a coyote! Report the coyote to el ministerio publico, PROFECO, el PGR, PGE, los angeles verdes, and then you
cannot sell your mangos.
Los Limoneros are tired of this as well as the owners of mil hectarias de aguacates. Let the "rurales" work. The national death toll RATE since EPN
was elected has GONE UP, and FAST. There are going to be more Rosaritos coming to Baja California.
Just so you understand facts about the cost of limones. It may happen to aguacates as well.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DavidE
Just so you understand facts about the cost of limones. It may happen to aguacates as well. |
Ohhhh well......why can't we make Margaritas out of watermelon? YUMMY 
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DavidE
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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Hell we used to take a HORSE hypodermic needle and inject EVERCLEAR into watermelons. A lot of young ladies lost their virtue due to eating ice cold
watermelon.
You can bet the aguacateros are going to follow suit, so if you have a guacamole fetish, better feed it now, if you're in Mexico.
Picking mangos Hadens now for semana santa. Chango cut 250+ cocos for las emramadas. Nice to see the 300# of 25-25-25 fertilizer didn't sit around in
bags.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DavidE
so if you have a guacamole fetish, better feed it now, if you're in Mexico.
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Not me. Never was one of my faves.
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DavidE
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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Mmmmmm, guacamole, gin, vermouth, brown sugar and cinnamon.....the adventurous add a couple of shakes of habanero jungle juice.
Se Llama Doctor Kevorkian
Por supuesto señor! Con or sin limón?
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Whale-ista
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http://money.cnn.com/2014/04/08/news/companies/lime-shortage...
Line shortage hits the airlines.
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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Udo
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I just came back from a long weekend in Ensenada, and was walking by the fish market, and saw this sign from a street vendor by the outside fish taco
stands...
This tiny fruit stand was selling really great looking Key Limes for 28 pesos a kilo.
These plastic bags were 20 pesos each
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If I needed that many, I could have bought the entire sack for 250 pesos.
Looks like the prices are coming down some. And the limes were looking really fresh (soft, shiny, green outer skin.
[Edited on 4-20-2014 by Udo]
[Edited on 4-20-2014 by Udo]
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durrelllrobert
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Mexican limes
As we have done with tomatoes, we have sacrificed flavor for convenience and appearance. Key limes were grown commercially in southern Florida and the
Florida keys, until the 1926 hurricane wiped out the citrus groves. The growers replaced the Key Lime trees with Persian Lime trees because they are
easier to grow, easier to pick because they have no thorns, and due to the much thicker skin, are easier and more economical to ship. There are still
many Key Lime trees throughout the Florida Keys in backyards however, commercial production is only on a very small scale. Though they do seem to be
making a slight comeback as a Florida crop in recent years.
http://www.foodreference.com/html/articles-a.html
[Edited on 4-21-2014 by BajaNomad]
Bob Durrell
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DENNIS
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Maybe this link will work better:
http://tinyurl.com/m6ztkr8
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woody with a view
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1.29/lb for key limes vs 3.49/lb for limes in SD today.
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KaceyJ
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Udo
I just came back from a long weekend in Ensenada, and was walking by the fish market, and saw this sign from a street vendor by the outside fish taco
stands...
This tiny fruit stand was selling really great looking Key Limes for 28 pesos a kilo.
These plastic bags were 20 pesos each
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If I needed that many, I could have bought the entire sack for 250 pesos.
Looks like the prices are coming down some. And the limes were looking really fresh (soft, shiny, green outer skin.
Hey Udo,
Looks like the big bag would be the way to go , squeeze them and freeze them into lime cubes, si???
BTW , if they are really fresh , when you rub the skin they are oily
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DENNIS
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"BTW , if they are really fresh , when you rub the skin they are oily"...... kc
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Maybe as volatile as the oil in a lemon skin. Twist a "lemon twist" in front of a flame and it ignites like gasolene.
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Udo
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That is how I pick out the really fresh ones, KC.
I know the big bag is the way to go, but my freezer space is limited, and that bag would take between 30 & 40 ice cube trays.
But I DID look at the bag twice and thought about it.
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MitchMan
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In the OC in So-Cal at my local ethnic (Persion) market, key limes were $1.29 USD/lb, bought 12 limes for $.63 USD, that's about $.05 USD/lime. Not a
bad price, will pay that all day long. UDO's $28 pesos per kilo is about the same as $1.00 USD/lb; not bad.
My neighbor in La Paz has several mature lime trees...plenty of free limes in the future, especially when my young lime tree starts producing. Now,
if only avocados would grow in the Baja...don't know how true that is, but I don't know of anyone who has an avocado tree in La Paz. Oranges, limes
and mangoes yes, but avocado, no.
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Udo
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Mitch...I know of two friends in East cape that have fruiting avocado trees. It si one of those trees that you have to have two of them, for them to
produce fruit.
(Unless you do a graft job, like my sister did).
Udo
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Feathers
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No need to juice the limes… just put them in a freezer bag and freeze 'em whole. Same with Lemons. The skin will be softer after freezing, but who
eats the skin?
Just FYI… it's much easier to zest a frozen lemon or lime than a fresh one.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Feathers
Just FYI… it's much easier to zest a frozen lemon or lime than a fresh one. |
That sounds kinky. Do you have any fotos? 
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