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["Ginda Fisher" <list@ginda.us>]

On May 20, 2011 3:01 PM, Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net> 
wrote: 



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



>

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

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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



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It certainly depends on your market. I buy strawberries by scent. I stick my 
nose near the fruit and sniff. When I buy supermarket strawberries at all, 
they are usually good. I have never bought excellent strawberries in a 
supermarket, though. I have bought excellent strawberries at a farmers' 
market and at pyo farms.

(The few strawberries I harvested at home were seriously under-ripe and only 
fair. I've never found a ripe strawberry -- the critters eat them before they 
get there. I do get a few ripe alpine strawberries, and they can be very 
good.)

Ginda
Eastern MA, zone 6