Daryl wrote --  

> The reflux is especially worse when I lie down at night.

  I've read that is because the acid builds up and finally has to find a
way out.

> JM>  I love fruits of all sorts and when in season I eat a lot.
> 
>   I used to eat the fruit cups

  Those cost more than they are worth.  Plus they are processed.
  I'm not a health food nut or anything but I prefer a minimum of
processed foods.  Not that I don't sometimes eat it.  

> Years ago, my late my grandmother got my brother a gallon jar of
> those cherries. He got so burned out that he never ate them again

  That'll do it.

>   The cherry and grape tomatoes rot so fast that it's pathetic. When I
> was making salads at home, I liked having them in it.

  One of the things I loved working in produce was getting all sorts of
stuff free.  If a product had any defects it couldn't be sold, so I often
had to cull out things, such as when someone brought X pounds of whatever
rather than the box.  (The boxes were not culled, shipped "as is"",
though they were opened and given a quick look see.)  I brought home all
sorts of stuff that had a little spot that was cut out and perfectly good
otherwise.
   I used to get a laugh around late April-early May when old codgers in
beat up pickup trucks would buy stuff at the market then a few hours
later be seen at the farmers market selling "home grown" whatever.  And
people seemed to think somehow a local "farmer" had ripe peaches in early
May, or corn, or whatever.
   The old city produce market had all sorts of characters working there
or hanging around.  One guy drove an ancient truck that was barely
staying together who had all sorts of stuff he would sell.  I don't
recall his real name but I always called him "Mr Haney", from Green
Acres.  Those two were a lot alike.
  (BTW, I recently found a site with the Green Acres shows and been
watching them and what impresses me is the sheer surrealism of the
program.)
   Joe
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