The apples of Paul Taipei might actually come from France:-P A french friend once told me that he did not consider the apples in Taiwan real apples because they are always too sweet. The apple pies that please you have to be made with very ripe apples of sour flavor. Moreover, there are more varieties of apples in France than in Taiwan as for choices for desserts. Can we consider the globalization a good thing while the carbon dioxygen iincreases?
Why use English all of a sudden? (Of course, I wouldn't have understood it if it were in French.) I remember a friend from Germany once said that there were over 400 varieties of apple in Germany, rather proudly. I was amazed by the number at that time, but now thinking back, I guess it's just natural, since basically apples are temperate plants and people have been grown them there for ages. However, do you share the memory that, when we were school kids, we had been told that how amazing we could grow big, beautiful apples – those temperate plants – out there in Li Shan (Pear Mountain)? And I also have the fresh memory that when I found Fuji apples here, its lovely smell immediately beat all other apples (in my subjective mind). I guess people have their own reasons to be proud of their local fruit/food/culture. Nowadays, while Fuji apples are seen more frequently here, most of them actually come from China. It's all about market. All about cost and benefit. I don't know whether we can consider globalization's positive side (say, more people are getting to appreciate different cultures in far away places) overweight its negative side (far too many to mention...) I just think our planet is a mess. And we are all in it.
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一直覺得這照片像什麼
可是就是想不到是什麼
可是不說又很難過
於是就這樣留言了
The apples of Paul Taipei might actually come from France:-P
A french friend once told me that he did not consider the apples in Taiwan real apples because they are always too sweet. The apple pies that please you have to be made with very ripe apples of sour flavor. Moreover, there are more varieties of apples in France than in Taiwan as for choices for desserts. Can we consider the globalization a good thing while the carbon dioxygen iincreases?
想起來像什麼了嗎？（我不是你，所以無從猜起:P）
Why use English all of a sudden? (Of course, I wouldn't have understood it if it were in French.)
I remember a friend from Germany once said that there were over 400 varieties of apple in Germany, rather proudly. I was amazed by the number at that time, but now thinking back, I guess it's just natural, since basically apples are temperate plants and people have been grown them there for ages.
However, do you share the memory that, when we were school kids, we had been told that how amazing we could grow big, beautiful apples – those temperate plants – out there in Li Shan (Pear Mountain)? And I also have the fresh memory that when I found Fuji apples here, its lovely smell immediately beat all other apples (in my subjective mind).
I guess people have their own reasons to be proud of their local fruit/food/culture.
Nowadays, while Fuji apples are seen more frequently here, most of them actually come from China.
It's all about market. All about cost and benefit.
I don't know whether we can consider globalization's positive side (say, more people are getting to appreciate different cultures in far away places) overweight its negative side (far too many to mention...)
I just think our planet is a mess. And we are all in it.
因為有時很奇怪地
打完留言去寫名字以後
想起還要寫點別的
就變不回中文輸入法了
不過在台灣蘋果當水果鮮吃
酸味的品種在市場上不風行
你不覺得嗎
在台灣的水果都是甜的
自然也不會進口
像你說的
就是供需問題
做歐洲的甜點（要好吃的話）用不上
歐盟要訂新的農藥使用標準
不過方案選擇採取的是寬鬆的那頭
現在還是各國自訂標準
法國現行的比起來嚴格許多
南部的西班牙進口的蔬果比巴黎更多
很多人都開始不買了
雖然實在便宜很多
但是農藥量很高很多
如果新標準通過
考慮生產成本的法國農民就有了可能不得不選擇的退路
消費者又得花更多時間買菜了
薪水不漲
日常消費得節省
日後就得多花醫藥費（因為健保退費也有一個莫名其妙的新提案 如果通過的話就是你要到病重了才能得到全額的退費 預防用藥或治療的退費標準會變嚴格）
真是麻煩的世界
不過法國這幾天還有在討論另一個法案
對農藥使用徵稅
是環保部的相關新聞
這樣會不會就算歐盟的新標準通過了
法國農民還是不會選擇用更多農藥呢
一個住在市郊的末端消費者的希望
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