Strawberries. So often I hear “I like strawberries but only if it’s really ripe and I get a good one.” If only one out of ten strawberries is actually good, you don’t like strawberries, you like the idea of strawberries.
It is like saying you like stakes but only like certain cuts of meat and will not eat rotten meat.
Commercially grown strawberries sold in stores are grown for volume and having a (barely) edible taste. About 1 package in 10 is at peak ripeness and even then only half of them are good.
Picking ripe strawberries from a bush, just about all of them are great. Those berries only grow to a quarter size of what you see in the store and it is a struggle to get them ripe before animals destroy them, so I can see why they are never in stores.
Strawberries. So often I hear “I like strawberries but only if it’s really ripe and I get a good one.” If only one out of ten strawberries is actually good, you don’t like strawberries, you like the idea of strawberries.
It is like saying you like stakes but only like certain cuts of meat and will not eat rotten meat.
Commercially grown strawberries sold in stores are grown for volume and having a (barely) edible taste. About 1 package in 10 is at peak ripeness and even then only half of them are good.
Picking ripe strawberries from a bush, just about all of them are great. Those berries only grow to a quarter size of what you see in the store and it is a struggle to get them ripe before animals destroy them, so I can see why they are never in stores.
Strawberries been sucking of late. Just straight up did not care for them. Like you said so many not ripe or good.
But someone hooked us up with these hand picked ones and they all been good, like I’m hyped for them now.
I feel tomatoes have gone this way, just no flavour or unripe. Been on the look for handpicked ugly ones like the ones my grandad used to grow.
Maybe it’s a failure of automation/ripening/logistics and the specific types of fruit/veg being grown.
Norwegian grown ones only