The sign is superfluous if you're downwind.
Red Jacket's hot apple cider (about 12 fl. oz.; $1.50) is prepared from tart cultivars like Macoun and Northern Spy. A sippy-cup approach is fine at first, but eventually you'll need to remove the lid so you can gulp down the slice-filled hot "applesauce" at the bottom.
Also: Santa Rosa plums ($2.50 per pound) were a bit firmer than most other varieties I've tried; they're moist, but not drippingly juicy, and quite sweet. Whether they're "sweeter on the other side of the fence," I'd have to ask my friend Kathy (shown from the wrist down), who picked out a few of her own. Red and black currants (two pints; $7) shared a mineral tartness. The red seemed ever-so-slightly sharper; the black (which, till 2003, were banned from cultivation in New York State) were a bit juicier, and more likely to leave their skins between cheek and gum.
Red Jacket Orchards
Geneva, New York
On Saturday, at the McCarren Park Greenmarket
Near Lorimer St. and Berry St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn
On other days, at other greenmarkets
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