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Whats wrong with strawberries these days
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Just bought some strawberries from my local supermarket they look good but taste sour and havent much taste, i am finding this a problem quite regularly when i shop at supermarkets not just this one.Is it because they are forced on and we have them all year round!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Could well be. I stopped buying them because even the lovely fat evenly-shaped expensive ones were tasteless. Then last week I bought a punnet of Sainsbury's Basic strawberries for 99p - and they were gorgeous, really sweet and juicy. They are only classed as 'Basic' because they are all funny shapes - but I reckon the little ones are sweeter anyway.
In recent years many people have expressed concern about irradiated food - a process that kills bacteria, delays ripening and rotting and so on. That's probably what is happening with out-of-season imported strawberries and other fruit. Consequently they look lovely but they're hard, sour and not worth buying. I agree with puddycat and certainly won't be buying any more. There's a lot to be said for home grown seasonal produce - the real thing!
I bought some out of Tescos today but i just know they are gonna be sour.
I am in the priveleged position of living in the heart of berry picking country and the strawsers and rasps you get here are second to none.
A few back when i took my kids out on the fields (prior to the eastern european Invasion) I picked specials which were for Markies -they were of the highest quality so you had to mwega careful picking them -but hey you got loads of money if you could be bothered with the specials.
It was dodgy tho -i remember J picking all morning and filled a crate -she was just young and some robbing swine stole it -she was gutted -if I could have got my hands on them -grrr !
Happy days at the berries tho -picked for your school uniform and every day was sunny and the banter across the dreels was only second to Billy Connelly -thanks for the memories !
I am in the priveleged position of living in the heart of berry picking country and the strawsers and rasps you get here are second to none.
A few back when i took my kids out on the fields (prior to the eastern european Invasion) I picked specials which were for Markies -they were of the highest quality so you had to mwega careful picking them -but hey you got loads of money if you could be bothered with the specials.
It was dodgy tho -i remember J picking all morning and filled a crate -she was just young and some robbing swine stole it -she was gutted -if I could have got my hands on them -grrr !
Happy days at the berries tho -picked for your school uniform and every day was sunny and the banter across the dreels was only second to Billy Connelly -thanks for the memories !
O Glenrothes -unlucky lol !!!
Gina -we maybe arent the main poducers now but decadedes ago we were deemd to have the best soil and climate (?) for soft fruit -still very successful -the berry fields o Blair -well know folk song.
Think everyone can produce to the same standards now with the polytunnels and such like.
Gina -we maybe arent the main poducers now but decadedes ago we were deemd to have the best soil and climate (?) for soft fruit -still very successful -the berry fields o Blair -well know folk song.
Think everyone can produce to the same standards now with the polytunnels and such like.
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