To: fuwafuwausagi@muchomail.com, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] strawberries
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 15:01:30 -0400
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