Date supplies

From time to time I mention getting our brick dates from a shop called Grape Tree, most recently at reference 1.

This afternoon, we happened to wonder where they came from. On that point we did not do better than 'product of more than one country', but we did find out that they had been packaged at Willand, near Cullumpton. Perhaps half an hour from where we are staying, on the other side of the River Exe.

Cullumpton being a place where I stayed for a short while in my concrete testing days, and Willand being a place where I once went to a dance, put on, as I recall, by the Young Farmers there. Cullumpton also boasted a fine baker, a baker which made the best dough cakes that I ever known. Dough cakes being a sort of bread containing a good deal of dried fruit and lard. Often served toasted with butter. With the toaster in question also serving as a wall mounted space heater in the shed out of which we were working at the time.

While Western Commodities, to judge by the dates tab on their website at reference 2, is quite big into dates. But not to the point of saying from where they get them.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/05/almost-crisis.html.

Reference 2: http://www.westerncommodities.com/.