DlO— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 16,1980
All Lancaster County is one big supermarket *
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
RURAL -
During these hot, muggy
“Dog Days” of August,
Lancaster County’s rural
roadsides are just one big
supermarket
Over every hill and around
every bend throughout
county farm country, there’s
another roadside stand or
homemade sign advertising
the tantihzmg luscious
wares of farm folk fields and
gardens.
And the warm, humid days
coupled with timely evening
thunder showers have made
it a bountiful year.
Literally, it’s a culinary
kaleidoscope of mouth
watering, tummy-rubbing
goodies stretching from
Blamsport in the north to
Pleasant Grove m the south
and from Cams in the east to
Falmouth in the west.
There are
Striped zucchini as long as
Little League baseball bats
Cantaloupes so big that
only a Wilt Chamberlain
could palm them.
Tomatoes as red as the
bams in the background
(And they taste like
tomatoes - the kind you
wished you had in mid-
February when you must be
satisfied with their pale pink
immitations which taste
more like the cellophane that
wraps them
Egg plants as smooth as
velvet ebony.
Sweet com still wet with
morning dew that tastes like
white honey
Eggs with some color to
them
Potatoes just dug with
small clods still clinging to
them
Big white onions that just
cry for a piece of homemade
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