sticker shock
Mar 22nd, 2009
I know it makes grocery store checkout a little more convenient, but I wish that industrial fruit producers would refrain from putting those stupid stickers on every single piece of fruit they ship. Who could ever be expected to take them off lemon rinds or banana peels, or any of the other excess bits of fruit that get tossed into the compost? Not us, which means that our compost is sprinkled liberally with the little things, which have made it through the winter and the total decomposition of their parent fruits without the slightest change to their own appearance. It makes me wonder, how we cheerfully make and use "disposable" things that'll outlast us by years or centuries!