It always amazed me how bad the supermarket produce was in California. Almost all of it is grown within 100miles of LA, even Mexico is only a couple of hours away and yet all of it was terrible factory-grade long life varieties and expensive.

That's the other weird thing for a european, the supermarkets are more expensive than the corner vegetable stores, there are no fruit/veg markets - only either farm gate trucks or fancy expensive farmers markets

Supermarket food is grown in the Central Valley, which is at least 100 miles from L.A.

Only Farmer's Market foods are grown in quantity close to L.A.