Organic Produce Service Failures

More mold.

But this time it wasn't my fault. About a month ago, Jennifer and I joined an organic (and local, we thought until we received bananas and avocados) produce delivery service that she had heard of through a friend. It just hasn't QUITE worked out as planned.

Each Monday we get an emailed list of the produce that will be delivered, with the option of switching out certain items we might not like for more of other items that we do like in the Thursday delivery. We tried to do that with our first box (and we've only had one box, technically, so far), but we really just got the generic box, which turned out to be fine.

We've opted for bi-weekly service, as there are only two of us and it takes us a while to work through the produce. So after a week off, we waited anxiously for our second delivery to arrive last Thursday with all the ingredients of a wonderful salad... We waited, and we waited....

No box arrived.

Jennifer emailed the company, who EVENTUALLY wrote back to say that they didn't know what had happened but that we wouldn't be charged and we'd receive a delivery this Thursday.

Then tonight Jennifer came into the apartment with two giant boxes. One from Amazon, and one mysterious one we thought was from Amazon, both of which were left on the front porch. So she opened up box number one- no drama there. Then, the oddly labeled box number two...The first thing I saw seemed to be rotten celery, though I'm still not sure. Following the celery were moldy grapes, moldy lettuce, moldy potatoes, moldy... You get the picture.

Gross, really gross.

So Jennifer emailed the company again to say that a box did arrive, disgusting, and we'd like to cancel the service. To which they responded that the box must have been delivered to the wrong place, and someone else brought it to the house (It did have our address on it). After apologizing profusely, our friend Z offered to deliver a box free tomorrow, if we'd be willing to give it a second chance.

So I'll let you know how it goes. And I expect Jennifer will post photos soon.