Supermarket lemons

I have carried ond incessantly about , lu scaru, the vegetable market where local farmers bring in their produce. I find that most of the products here are excellent but was disappointed with their lemons. Of course, these are local but alas, this area of Sicily is not known for it's citrus fruits. Near by Palermo was famous for it's Conca d'oro, or golden Valley whose name derived from the golden color of the citrus that had a superb  reputation.Unfortunately , in the late fifties, aided and abetted by cosa nostra, this area was turned into high rise apartments that had the deleterious effect of creating a vacuum in the historic part of this superb city as people became attracted to elevator apartments. Fortunately this trend has ceased and the reverse is true as the old areas  are fast becoming gentrified. Enough digression. As I was stating, our local areas lacks great citrus fruits. The two renowned areas are the valley of Catania under Mount Etna in the eastern coast and famous for it's  blood oranges of unparallelled flavor and quality and Ribera on the southern  coast. This is of course the hypotenuse of this wonderful geographic triangle.

So now to the gist of the story. while in my favorite super market, I found these absolutely superb lemons that came from Catania. Wow, amazing. In this place people are so much into food that even supermarkets must carry excellent products if they are to survive. I thought you wanted to know.