Just over a week ago we visited Ghana with a team from the Albert Heijn supermarkets. Around 10 people - produce managers in our Albert Heijn stores - were selected based on their fruit salad sales. So we visited Blue Skies again, the factory where our fresh cut fruit salads are processed and packed.
Every day, the fruit is freshly harvested in the morning, cut and packed in the afternoon, flown out to the Netherlands in the evening and on your plate over the next couple of days. And the taste is so good! You taste real pineapple, mango, papaya; fresh from harvest - and perfect. Not like your regular whole fruits that are harvested, then shipped for another two to three weeks and then into your mouth. No, this is how fruit should taste, just like you would eat it in Ghana.
One secret... Pineapple actually tastes even better when the fruit is a bit warm: about 25ºc (77ºf) or so. That’s how we ate it in the field last week. We cut it from the plant, we slice it up and we eat, and the juice drips down your chin like honey! Too much detail, I know, but delicious.
Anyway, later that evening, the team got some dancing lessons. Ghana rocks on High Life music, and in the evening the team learned how to do some Northern Ghanaian dances. Difficult for us, with our stiff, European legs and hips. It wasn’t pretty...
And I was not allowed to take pictures.