Some of our favorite travel stops deal with food: candies
from Cranberry Sweets, cheeses from the Loleta Cheese Factory (a favorite stop,
though not on this trip), etc. We enjoy sampling the treats at the store and
then enjoying our purchases even more when we get home. Much to the detriment
of our bank account, we have found the more free samples a store offers, the
more we are inclined to buy.
These three food stops are among those we’ve made so far:
The Olive Pit
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| Olives |
Located in Corning, California, The Olive Pit is the place
to go if you like olives, say olives stuffed with garlic or blue cheese,
kalamata olives or just plain jane black olives. The Olive Pit has been serving
up olives for 50 years, and they’ve more than gotten the hang of it. Free
samples abound, so we usually end up buying several jars of various flavors.
This visit Jon sprang for a gallon can of black olives.
We’ve been stopping
here since our honeymoon back in 2002, and it’s one of our favorite food stops.
Citrus Extravaganza
As the name implies, Citrus Extravaganza, more formally
known as the Murray Family Farms, specializes in citrus fruits. Located near
Bakersfield, it has an old-fashioned juicer that you can use to squeeze
yourself a fresh cup of orange juice. Be warned, you have to be pretty strong
to even get a drop out of this squeezing machine, but the effort is worth it.
Martha’s Gardens
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| Date palms |
Martha’s Gardens is an organic date farm located on a dirt
road in rural Yuma. The farm grows Medjool dates, which originally came from
Iraq. It has a pleasant outdoor patio where you can eat a deli sandwich while
sipping a date shake. Jon doesn’t particularly like dates, yet somehow managed
to consume a good portion of my date shake, which was eaten through a straw
with a spoon on the end to scoop up the thick concoction. Scrumptious!
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