I'm terrible at picking out peaches that aren't mealy garbage, so I finally broke down and signed up for some Peach Truck shipments this summer. Lunch today is a big bowl of peaches. They're not the mind-blowing platonic ideal of a peach that you only run across handful of times in your life, but they're good.
Yeah, I struggle with that issue whenever I buy them from the grocery store. They either are mealy garbage when I buy them ripe, or they are hard as a rock and take forever to ripen, then turn mealy garbage over night. I grew up near orchards and could buy them fresh or pick them my self on the trees. Buying them ripe off the tree is so much better. It spoiled me. I can't deal with the garbage I get at the grocery store so I don't buy them.