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["Bob Hartman" <hartmansfruit@msn.com>]

Sticking your nose on or near fruit doesn't sound good to me.  At fruit 
shows some people want to pick up the fruit to smell it.  We have to put out 
signs for people not to pick up the fruit because we are going to have 
people tasting the fruit and having someone's nose next to a fruit is not 
appetizing.

Bob

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ginda Fisher
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 1:38 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] strawberries

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
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