On May 7, 11:49*am, HK wrote:
thunder wrote:
On Thu, 07 May 2009 11:22:20 -0400, D.Duck wrote:

* His opinion was they cannot get the right cheese or sausage
down there. *Too expensive to have it flown in from up there where it's
readily available.

I thought it was the water. *The local Florida bread leaves something to
be desired also.

When we first moved to Florida, and I went grocery shopping, I was
astonished at:

a. the lousy, crustless, tasteless substance that was being passed off
as bread. No matter what sort of bread it was pretending to be, it had
the same sponginess and pretty much the same taste. Lousy rolls, too.
We found *one* deli in the entire Jax area that "imported" its bread
daily from Baltimore, and it was pretty good.

Harry, you are so full of ****. There are artisan bread makers in Jax
by the dozens.
As a matter of fact there are FIVE Panteras in the Jacksonville area.
And here's a list of a hundred or so bakeries:
http://www.hellojacksonville.com/YP/...ILBAKERIES.Cfm



b. the high price of produce. I really thought we'd be paying a lot less
at the grocery store for produce. Nope.

In the first place most grocery stores aren't the place to buy
produce. Usually picked unripened, etc. Farmer's markets, or pick your
own and get the freshest and cheapest.