Saucer Peaches?
I did some major produce shopping at my local Mexican market yesterday and was delighted when I encountered huge bins of what were labeled as "saucer peaches." I bought about 40 of them for three bucks.
I read somewhere online today that they're a new "form" of peach. Aside from being tiny, beautiful, adorable bite-sized cuties, they're also incredibly sweet and juicy. It's always fun when food is cute, but it's especially wonderful when it's ridiculously tasty.
Has anyone else encountered saucer peaches this summer?
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9 Comments:
I heard that our local peaches are probably not going to produce well because there was a late frost, so I suppose I'll be looking for distant peaches.
I've never seen saucer peaches, but I bought some donut peaches last year. I wasn't too impressed, and they were pretty expensive.
Usually I like nectarines better, but some of the local peaches are really good. Way too early yet, though.
dbcurrie at 12:40AM on 06/15/09
I think donut and saucer peaches are the same thing. They remind me of "the cippolini of peaches."
Remember when pluots first came out? I liked their original name so much better: Dinosaur eggs. They were incredible.
Do all these strange new fruits qualify as Frankenfood?
therealchiffonade at 5:52AM on 06/15/09
Are these the same thing as saturn peaches?
SqueezeBottle at 8:55AM on 06/15/09
Interesting! In the grocery store flyer they are called California Saucer Peaches. On the cash register slip (same store) they are called Donut Peaches. The sticker on the piece of fruit says UFO Peach.
And this years pluots are called plumcots.
I prefer nectarines too.
goodcooker at 9:03AM on 06/15/09
I think pluots and plumcots are different. And donut peaches are just a different species, not a freaky hybrid. I've never had one that impressed me much.
producestories at 11:30AM on 06/15/09
Neither pluots nor plumcots sound all that appetizing, but I think (think, not know) that they're the same fruit. I thought I read somewhere that one of the names was trademarked, so other growers had to market them under a different name. I've never seen them in a local store, but I'd probably try them if I did, despite the name. But I really think someone needs to come up with a new and exotic and appetizing name for them to get really popular.
As far as the donut peaches, they're probably grown far enough away from here that we're not getting them ripe-picked. So of course they aren't going to be very tasty.
dbcurrie at 1:17PM on 06/15/09
@therealchiffonade, I think of "Frankenfood" as that which is artificially created, while many of the new fruits we're seeing are created from the old-fashioned cross-breeding used by farmers and orchardists and others for years. The same kind of thing that created seedless oranges and seedless watermelon and all the different varieties of apples and grapes.
Now, if one of these new fruits glows in the dark or contains a full day's supply of vitamins, then I'll suspect Frankenfooding.
morgancain at 2:15PM on 06/15/09
A few nursery sources I found online claim that pluots and plumcots, while both plum/apricot hybrids, have different proportions of plum and apricot (pluots are more plum than apricot, while plumcots are half and half). Others say it's simply a more specific, especially delicious strain of the plumcot. Though this Serious Eats article claims that they're the same. Interesting.
producestories at 9:13PM on 06/15/09
I love saucer peaches! We sell them at our farm (but don't grow them) and my dad will never let me eat them because they're really expensive to stock, I envy you finding them so cheap. I have never seen them grown locally, so I feel like they're possibly Frankenfood...
embolini9 at 8:27AM on 06/17/09