>>Even the potatoes taste better here. And it's not just us, playing localpatriotic tunes to our own ears. I've had american visitors over the last few years, and they all agree.
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>Everyone knows the best potatoes on earth grow in Maine. Totally untrue, but I have to defend my home state.

And I heard the state of Idaho doesn't really exist, it's just a brand of potatoes for which the state was invented as a marketing gimmick.

>I believe you about fruit grown the old way. My next door neighbors are Polish (been here a long time) and have peach trees. The trees grow so heavy with fruit it's a wonder they don't collapse. They give me some of them, both fresh and jarred. You can't get anything like it at the grocery store.

My dad's yard looks like Acropolis in july - he has so many columns, namely sticks to prop the branches. He's got only two apricot trees in there, but they yield about 300 kg of delicious fruit. As daughter said "all this yoga for nothing - nirvana grows on a tree".