Yeah... right! Try to get a peach from Georgia. Most of the local
ones come from SC. I always believed that peaches referred to the
sweet southern gals from here.
--- K4SAV <RadioIR at charter.net> wrote:
> I thought Lee's comment of being in the "pit of the peach state" was
> cute, and then I realized I didn't know what the official fruit of
> the
> state of Alabama is, so I looked it up. It is a peach. WHAT???
> Yeah,
> we grow some good peaches, but everyone knows that Georgia is the
> "official" peach state (whether they are better than Alabama peaches
> is
> a matter of debate). Seems like that happened in 2006. It was
> previously a blackberry. Yeah we grow a lot of those too. They are
>
> all over the place, my property is full of them, but they aren't much
> of
> a crop. Earlier until 1982 it was a pecan. Seems I remember
> something
> about Georgia being able to grow a few pecans too. I guess we can't
> decide.
>
> Alabama has always been know as the cotton state. Why? I don't
> know.
> We produce a lot of cotton but there are 8 or 10 other states that
> produce more, including Georgia.
>
> Also interesting is that the official fruit of Rhode Island is also a
>
> peach. Rhode Island? Where would they put the trees?
>
> South Carolina which is #2 on the peach production list, does claim
> the
> peach as the state fruit, but the state is known as "The Palmetto
> state", "The Rice State", "The Swamp State", "The Iodine State", and
> a
> few others. They are all confused.
>
> California which grows more peaches than South Carolina, Georgia, or
> Alabama, decided to not get into the argument and has no official
> fruit. Unofficially, I heard they have a whole city full of them.
>
> Jerry, K4SAV
> still in the briar patch
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