Lemons

I remember this roadside meal because of the lemons.

PANCITRUS. On the mountain road to Mountain Province but still in Benguet, we stopped for lunch at a roadside restaurant. A large lemon came with the pancit. Wait, let me rephrase that: Some pancit came with the Lemon. Just look at that plate. It was clue that something was amiss. The cook was not a lazy chap, we know, because the pancit was delicious. Were they being generous with the lemons because there was a lot of it? As it turns out there was indeed an over production of lemons. We ended up doing a Lemon Rescue Buy in that town, and other towns where lemons grew in abundance and buyers were scarce. It’s been three years now since the meal we called Pancitrus, and RuRi has been doing Lemon Rescue Buys every year without fail. I think we’re rescued close to 40 tons of lemons that would have otherwise been thrown away. We rescued so much that we were caught in the radar of Kabayan Noli de Castro’s TV program KBYN. We’ll share that episode in the next post.

We’d like to move some Lemons tomorrow for a Benguet farmer. Konti lang po, does not include honey this time, ubos na po honey. Will you buy lemons without the honey? We hope so.