To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] strawberries
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 16:38:22 -0400
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:
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> 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.)