Yes!!! I remember my first one.  However,  I didn’t like it.  Now,  necatarines?  Totally different experience. It was a particularly hot early summer day. We all walked back from a day of sun and playing in the surf at the beach to the local market.  Sandy, hot and thirsty the blast of the AC instantly chilled the damp salty towel wrapped around my waist.  As salt is a conductor, the cool air in the store felt almost arctic. I grabbed a Dannon vanilla yogurt and back in the 70s, we had 4 choices…vanilla/ lemon/ coffee/ fruit-at-the-bottom strawberry from Dannon. Oh, and plain. Thickly sour to my tastebuds then,  now it’s my preference.  They also came in wax coated paper that decomposed, btw. Now? Plastic filling landfill containers, just saying.  That was it. No Nöosa, Yukult, fancy pants greek, low fat versions in rows and rows of choices back then. The yen for fruit came about and I meandered barefoot with evidence of the beach stuck to the tops of my bare feet over to the produce section. I lingered with decisions, decisions.  Besides,  the coolness was becoming comforting to my sun burned face. Then I came to the awe- inspiring pyramid pile of sunrise colored fruit, the golden fleece of fruit.  The heralders of summer. Peaches. Sooooo many peaches. The scent was so incredibly deliciously intoxicating. Yet,  my first existing memory of bite biting into one made me shudder and not from the cold.  The way the fuzz on peaches feels on my teeth is akin to nails on a chalkboard.  At least to me.  Anyway, then…I saw something else.  Necatarines. Gorgeous,  plump ones.  Seeing one that still had a leaf clinging to it [which by the way is a thing of joy for me when I find fruit with leaves still attached.  Is that weird? Don’t answer… it’s rhetorical] it was mine! Reaching for a nectarine the size of my young girl hand, it was heavier than I thought it would be.  Soooooo smooth. . See YA peaches, you’re not for me.  Raw ones anyway.  Biting through the fuzz rubbed me the wrong way. The taste though… yum.   Afterall, what is a nectarine but a brazillian waxed peach?  Yeah.  I bit into the juicy sweet flesh and it was good
Oh, so good.  Been chasing the dragon since.  The first one,  as some may say,  was free! To this day,  whenever seeing seasonal nectarines, I know summer is upon us.  Eat a Peach? Nah, I’ll stick with nectarines. However,  I will listen to the last album of the Allman Brothers entitled ‘Eat a Peach’ while enjoying some stone fruit. 