Those oranges I just bought....

Duh. It's helping us so you can get a job picking oranges now that the immigrants are gone. You should be grateful.

Uh...maybe it's because California navel orange season is from November through June?

OP, isn’t what you want to believe far more important to you than whatever the truth may be? Stay with what you got.

Exactly.

People forgot that most fruits/veg are seasonal. If you are buying fruit out of its season, it's imported or grown in a greenhouse, if that's an option for that fruit/veg.

That. or they're just stupid.

Out of season produce is always inferior

Meanwhile we are getting sub-par avocados from fucking Peru instead of 🎼Avocados from Mexico 🎼

My ShopRite currently has avocados from Mexico and Florida.

There used to be a lot of orange trees in Florida. Then a number of orange diseases swept through here, and then the land became more valuable as housing. The "Florida's Natural" juice I just bought because I knew it was local (Umatilla) has oranges from Brazil in it -- it says so on the package.

The story of the diseases I linked below.

It's very sad. I remember driving across I-4 and being able to smell the orange blossoms. It was wonderful.

R8, I blame Anita Bryant for bringing the disease.

Well, in all honesty, the only place we buy avocados is from Costco and all they have currently are from Peru.

It’s hit or miss.

California avocados are in season now until early Fall. You might have to look for them at produce or Farmer's markets or in the organic produce section. They're harvested all year, but Summer season avocados are best. They aren't cheap but worth it.

California oranges won't start happening again until late November when we start seeing Mandarins, etc.. Summer grapefruit from SoCal are available now. I personally don't like them and will wait until the heavenly Melogolds arrive late next Winter.

In Northern California, peaches, nectarines, apricots, blueberries, plumbs, and cherries are amazing right now. Not sure if they're shipped out of my county. The same fruit grown on mega agribiz orchards out in the Central Valleys aren't as flavorful, but are more likely to show up in supermarket chains and box stores.

You don't want to have anything to do with oranges. Whenever they appear, a death will occur.

I learned this from watching "The Godfather."

For those of us so interested

Trump will try to tell us the reason for the high prices and/or unavailability of most produce is because it's out of season or imported, completely ignoring the fact that entire harvests are going unpicked because, as they boo-hoo about in California's Central Valley, 70% of the immigrant workforce is not showing up for work having deported voluntarily or involuntarily. Just wait for the farmers in the grain belt to cry over the fact that their vote cost them their farms because it's either dying in the ground or there's no point in harvesting it because their export contracts collapsed due to Trump's tariff wars. Farmers have faced bankruptcy before; the last time Trump destroyed their businesses, they got $billions in taxpayer bailouts, so they voted for him again instead of looking at the reality they face. No worries, huge conglomerates like Archer Daniels Midland and of course, private equity, are standing buy to purchase farmland that has been a staple of families for centuries for pennies on the dollar. They cheered when Trump raised the inheritance threshold but they won't have anything to leave their kids after Trump's second term. They are getting exactly what they voted for.

Other things that are skyrocketing even further in price than they had originally under Biden:

beef

chicken

pistachios

avocados

imported wine

The price of beef is MENTAL right now. I found my grocer puts out the discounted meat around 12 or 12:15 every day and that's the time I head to the store. Last week I got a $26 package of tri-tip for $10 and it made four meals.

Beef is higher, eggs are lower. The average gas price right now is $3.150 per gallon. Last year at this time it was, $3.52 per gallon. (source AAA).

Overall the inflation rate is lower than it was this time last year.

The effects of the tariffs have only begun to show, R17. Get back to us in 3 months.

Ah! The joy of living in Seattle where our gas is currently around $4.30 or so.