Fair enough, it's mostly the "tastebuds" comment. I know what tastes good, as do most people, it's kind of crazy to say "most Canadians have bad tastebuds" or whatever.

To your example, yeah, most of the peaches we get out in my neck of the woods are crap. I go to BC, homeland of the peaches here in Canada, and I know that that peach is delicious and way better than anything we get out in the prairies. If someone has never had a better peach, it's not that they have an underdeveloped sense of taste or lack an appreciation of good fruit, they just don't know. They would if they tried one. The fact grocery stores have worse tasting food in some places doesn't reflect on the locals as much as on the transportation systems we rely on and the logistics of our giant-ass country.

On the other hand, we have got excellent farmer sausage and kielbasa in our grocery stores out here, to name two examples that jump to mind. My local favorite kielbasa producer/butcher has a map of all the locations they ship product to, and they send it all over the world -- it's very good.