BLACK CURRANTS.

Evening Star, Issue 25069, 10 January 1944, Page 2

BLACK CURRANTS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —-I wish to enter my protest, in regal’d to a custom which seems to have come into vogue recently with some of our local fruit shops in the treatment of black currants. Having occasion the other day to .purchase a small quantity of that 'fruit, upon picking it over I found it to consist or a large quantity of bare stalks and.a lot of loose berries. Evidently it had been picked over and the larger berries removed, leaving the stalks with the remainder. So far as weight was concerned it made no difference, but I do object to the deception. If grading has to be done then let it be done openly and unashamed, so then one knows what one is getting. No one has any right to grumble at the market price of any commodity these days. ' I never do; if it is prohibitive I sini.plv go without or make a lesser quantity suffice. Hoping a word to the wise will be sufficient. —I am, e tc.; No Deception. 1 January 8. .