To: "Ginda Fisher" <list@ginda.us>, "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] strawberries
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 14:17:13 -0700
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
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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.)