I recently was at someone's house for dinner whereupon I helped with the meal preparation. I was shocked that the hostess was throwing out entire items of produce that had nothing wrong but a small blemish. She must have thrown out four tomatoes that each had no more than a small bruise and a potato that had nothing wrong with it but a small black bit. This really bothered me. Having had to scrimp and save and do without I would be cutting around such blemishes to use as much of the item as possible. The whole thing struck me as really weird.