Where I live we can go to the grocers and get huge tasteless waxen "domestic" highbush blueberries wrapped in cellophane, or we can go into our bush and pick a

Where I live we can go to the grocers and get huge tasteless waxen "domestic" highbush blueberries wrapped in cellophane, or we can go into our bush and pick a few tiny lowbush "wild" blueberries and enjoy the massive flavour. Same goes for strawberries. Orders of magnitude more flavour but tinier and not long-lasting. It's great that a lot of work went into breeding and hybridizing these fruits so they ship well so city dwellers can buy them, and they look great so you're enticed to pick up packages of them at the supermarket, but they're really a shadow of their origins. Once you've tried the original, it's hard to go back. I say this as someone with a few dozen highbush blueberry (and domestic strawberry) plants in my garden because finding and picking the wild kind is work.