We all must know about the delicious, juicy fruit called peaches. If you don’t than where have you been?! This article is all about peaches and what we all sacrifice to eat and enjoy them.
Teeth + Peaches
To start us off, we will start by talking about peaches and teeth. Have you ever eaten a peach and then afterwards realized that you have a little piece of it stuck in between your teeth? You think, “Oh it’s no big deal I’ll just go brush my teeth and it will come right out.” BUT NO! You brush and it’s still there. So you start to floss but the piece is so small and so stuck in there that the floss can get all around i but it can’t get the one piece of peach!! Then you move to your last resort… your fingers. You try and pull it out but your fingers are just not small enough. Then you go to sleep and it magically comes out in your sleep. Uhg. That is the biggest and main problem with peaches!
In Season
Next, you have to wait so long for peaches to come into season. You can buy them early but who wants to eat a hard peach? No one! So you have to wait and watch as the days pass and the peach is sitting on the counter just slowly ripening for you to eat it. You wait for sooooo long and then finally the day comes when it just might be ripe enough. You go up to it and gently touch it to see how soft it is and it is perfect! After waiting for 1 week you finally get to enjoy it. Then Winter comes and you spend all of your time thinking about those juicy peaches. Then Spring passes by and you still think everyday about peaches. *Sigh. Then mid-July comes (that’s when they are in season) and you rush out to the store and buy the only bag of peaches left. You do that all season until end of September comes around. (That’s when they go out of season) Now you must wait another long year until they come back.
Bugs
Finally, peaches are so good that they attract a long list of bugs to them along with humans. Some of the most common bugs that also like peaches are plum curculio, Oriental fruit moth, peach tree borer, lesser peach tree borer, shot hole borer, cat facing insects, scale, Japanese beetle, and the green June beetle. So when you eat peaches you never know what bugs may have touched the outside of that peach. This is why you should take extra caution when washing any fruit. You also never know what bugs may be inside of the peach that you are about to eat or have already eaten. Some of these bugs are so small that it is hard to see them but some of them are big and easily avoidable. So overall, make sure to take caution when washing your peaches (or any fruit for that matter) so that you don”t get sick or anything like that.
So these are the things about peaches. They have their pro’s and con’s. I personally don’t love peaches that much. I like them 40% of the time but I hate them the other 60% of the time. So let’s all go out and enjoy or not enjoy those peaches!
