Fruits like Mangosteen, Noni, etc, exotic fruits like that did not just show up but why are we paying?!
Fruits like Mangosteen, Noni, etc, exotic fruits like that did not just show up but why are we paying?
attention to them now?
I would have eaten them when I was a child. I wish I knew about kiwi, mangoes and papapayas as a child.
Answers:
It's a global market in the year 2007. When you were a child, there probably weren't many people of diverse ethnic backgrounds in your neighborhood also. Time goes on, and there are people from diverse cultures living in other cities around the US, not just in large cities. So, you see more international products from exotic areas in your market, or advertized on t.v. The grocers are only keeping up with demand.
Also, grocers have access to a supply of fruits and veggies on an international scale. A lot of importation of tropical fruit from different suppliers are readily available in 2007 that wasn't available in 1977.
A lot has changed as far as access to the international market in only 30 years.