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Strawberries in the USA are huge. Sometimes they remind me of an Apple. Go to Denmark--they're small but packed full of flavor. I would much rather have the
by camhart 6y ago
Strawberries in the USA are huge. Sometimes they remind me of an Apple.
Go to Denmark--they're small but packed full of flavor.
I would much rather have the smaller ones. I wonder if the large, crisp, apple-esc strawberries really sell better. They're certainly bigger.
- markdown 6y agoI feel the same about hydroponically grown tomatoes. They're just bigs bags of barely flavoured water.
- riffraff 6y agoAFAIU that depends on the nutrients added to the water. You could have good tasting hydroponically grown tomatoes, but nobody cares.
- Thlom 6y agoBest strawberries in the world are found in a small valley on the west coast of Norway where the combination of late summer, cool nights and long summer days with lots of sunlight makes for a long ripening process and perfect strawberries.
- fogihujy 6y agoFinnish strawberries are clearly superior! ;) Jokes aside, my personal experience is that strawberries grown in some grandmother's garden in a Nordic country, including Denmark, will beat the mass-produced stuff in the stores when it comes to taste. I can't imagine the same wouldn't apply to Canadian or Russian strawberries, grown under similar conditions, as well.
- yesenadam 6y agoIn Paris in 1985 (only time I've been there) you could buy massive strawberries from street stalls by the kilo, the size of a small apple, cheap, and super-delicious. I don't know where they came from or why I've never seen them here in Australia. Apart from that, I had delicious small homegrown ones as a kid, and the occasional almost or totally tasteless medium-sized ones from shops ever since. I always wonder how it feels to be a farmer growing totally tasteless strawberries for a living.
- nobodyandproud 6y ago> I always wonder how it feels to be a farmer growing totally tasteless strawberries for a living. I imagine it’s a bland but fruitful experience.
- tzot 6y agoI remember a joke from my childhood, where an American tourist is browsing a local farmer's market commenting how small everything is compared to American produce, so when the tourist sees watermelons and asks “and what are these?”, the annoyed vendor just says “oh, they're just peas”.
- pvaldes 6y ago> Strawberries in the USA are huge Plant hormones added