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Showing posts with label Gaffney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gaffney. Show all posts

Saturday, 29 January 2011

The Gaffney Peachoid

Monstrous injustices exist in the area of public opinion. This is the tale of one of them, and how it was rectified with the help of a determined public works office and 50 gallons of paint.
The Gaffney Peachoid, by Malabarista



Georgia Peach - HAH!
A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes.- Melissa Fay Greene, Praying for Sheetrock.

As everybody and his cousin knows, most peaches come from Georgia. (The Georgia in the US, of course, not the one on the borders of Europe.) Right?

Wrong. Emphatically wrong.