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On May 20, 2011, at 2:52 PM, fuwa fuwa usagi wrote:

> 1) in season supermarket strawberries tend not to be bad tasting.


That might depend on your definition of "not bad tasting".

I don't eat supermarket berries often; but when I have, they've often  
tasted of nothing at all.

One year I was handing out taste samples at market, and a customer got  
very indignant because her strawberry was juicy. I kid you not: she  
got juice on her shirt when she bit into it, and she was mad.  
Wondering what on earth she had been expecting, I bought a pint of  
strawberries at the grocery store. They had the approximate flavor and  
texture of an unripe pear. A seriously unripe pear.

(It might, of course, also depend on what your particular supermarket  
carries. A few do have local strawberries in season.)


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale