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Weren't those the best? Seeds and all. Didn't make any difference to me as a kid. My granddad lived in the suburban Detroit area and had a concord vine along his back fence. We would stuff ourselves with everything we could eat and still there were enough grapes for mom, my aunt, and grandma to put up enough jelly to last until next season. People used to compliment her all the time on the jelly. I couldn't see it at the time. It was homemade, so it wasn't as good as the Welch's storebought and besides I had homemade all the time. Now that I'm older I see the appeal of homemade. Much more fruity tasting.my earliest memory with food is eating concord grapes off the vine in the backyard with my Grandad. Thanks for making me remember that... my second food memory is eating fried eggs... my gang turned 20 weeks old today, so maybe soon I will enjoy thinking about THAT memory while I eat some super fresh eggs!!!
Granddad also had a cherry tree that would fill us up during the summers and we could hardly wait until fall to get his Jonathan apples - paper thin skin, blinding white fruit, and just the perfect mix of tart and sweet to cap off a fall day.