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Store bought blueberries are garbage. Even the frozen “cultivated wild” (wtf is that) ones. If it’s not bought from the side of the road in northern Ontario or

Store bought blueberries are garbage. Even the frozen “cultivated wild” (wtf is that) ones. If it’s not bought from the side of the road in northern Ontario or Quebec (and probably some other places), you don’t know what you’re missing.

geodel 3y ago
Agree. Same is true for medicine. Store bought ones are garbage. I always buy from vendors selling at street corners.
- bigstrat2003 3y ago
  They aren't remotely the same thing dude. Medicine is better when it gets made at a factory instead of in someone's back yard. Fruits and vegetables are better when they are made locally (which can be someone's back yard), rather than being shipped halfway across the country/world.
  - lostlogin 3y ago
    Some medicines aren’t available at the pharmacy and the locally produced varieties fill a market gap. Ethical hits for the modern druggie.
    - geodel 3y ago
      Agree. Seems being vocal for local hit the raw nerve.
justrealist 3y ago
Store bought blueberries are fine. Frozen blueberries are fine. It's food, worry about things that matter.
- rescbr 3y ago
  I have a couple of strawberry pots by the window in my apartment. The flavor is way better than anything store bought. It's the same thing with picking and eating blueberries straight out of the bush, or from some roadside stall. Something to do with the commercial varieties being selected for transport and size/color rather than flavor. Also I believe the commercial fruits are picked as soon as they seem ripe, while I can wait longer for them to get sweeter and I don't have to care about transportation spoiling the fruit.
  - bigstrat2003 3y ago
    The transportation thing is what I've heard as well. Basically, the fruits are picked before they fully ripen so they don't get damaged in transport. For that reason you'll see chefs (e.g. J Kenji Lopez-Alt) recommend that you use canned tomatoes rather than fresh when you can. Tomatoes destined for canning are chosen for flavor and not beauty, and are picked when fully ripe. So you will generally get superior flavor from canned tomatoes.
- bigstrat2003 3y ago
  Food is something that matters. It's one of life's great joys.
bigstrat2003 3y ago
I have no idea why the hell people are being so hard on you. I haven't had good fresh blueberries, but it is well known that food tends to be better when you get it fresh from the place where it is grown. I can certainly vouch that tomatoes and strawberries that you get at the store are but a pale imitation of what you get if you can get them fresh. Maybe blueberries are an exception to this trend, but I doubt it. I'm 100% willing to believe that they are way better if you grow them yourself or get them from some farmer who grew them himself.
- Loughla 3y ago
  Honestly, fresh, frozen, store bought, and and all blueberries. They all taste like crunchy water to me. We had a blueberry farm less than 5 miles from our house. My family just raves about how good the fresh blueberries are. Crunchy water. They all taste like crunchy water. I wonder what's wrong with my taste capacity that there is an absolute absence of detection of blueberry.
  - Scoundreller 3y ago
    I don’t think it’s the freshness factor, but rather the difference between wild/bush picked and cultivated. On the grocery-destined side, there’s probably an aspect of strain selection and farming practices that focuses on bulk without regard to flavour+texture.
- barbazoo 3y ago
  > I have no idea why the hell people are being so hard on you. I think it's this and the gatekeeping in general. > Store bought blueberries are garbage. They're obviously not garbage and some people don't have access to fresh Blueberries.
  - bigstrat2003 3y ago
    I can't really fault OP for that. I would absolutely say that store bought tomatoes are garbage, even though I buy and eat them. The quality is so much better with fresh tomatoes that I think it's fair to say that the store bought ones are garbage. I understood OP as meaning the same thing with respect to blueberries.
goda90 3y ago
There are so many kinds of blueberries, and they all get sold without specifying what kind. There's also a matter of taste. I've had blueberries I like and blueberries I feel meh about from the store. I prefer less tart and some people prefer more tart.

geodel 3y ago

Agree. Same is true for medicine. Store bought ones are garbage. I always buy from vendors selling at street corners.

bigstrat2003 3y ago
They aren't remotely the same thing dude. Medicine is better when it gets made at a factory instead of in someone's back yard. Fruits and vegetables are better when they are made locally (which can be someone's back yard), rather than being shipped halfway across the country/world.
- lostlogin 3y ago
  Some medicines aren’t available at the pharmacy and the locally produced varieties fill a market gap. Ethical hits for the modern druggie.
  - geodel 3y ago
    Agree. Seems being vocal for local hit the raw nerve.

justrealist 3y ago

Store bought blueberries are fine. Frozen blueberries are fine. It's food, worry about things that matter.

rescbr 3y ago
I have a couple of strawberry pots by the window in my apartment. The flavor is way better than anything store bought. It's the same thing with picking and eating blueberries straight out of the bush, or from some roadside stall. Something to do with the commercial varieties being selected for transport and size/color rather than flavor. Also I believe the commercial fruits are picked as soon as they seem ripe, while I can wait longer for them to get sweeter and I don't have to care about transportation spoiling the fruit.
- bigstrat2003 3y ago
  The transportation thing is what I've heard as well. Basically, the fruits are picked before they fully ripen so they don't get damaged in transport. For that reason you'll see chefs (e.g. J Kenji Lopez-Alt) recommend that you use canned tomatoes rather than fresh when you can. Tomatoes destined for canning are chosen for flavor and not beauty, and are picked when fully ripe. So you will generally get superior flavor from canned tomatoes.
bigstrat2003 3y ago
Food is something that matters. It's one of life's great joys.

bigstrat2003 3y ago

I have no idea why the hell people are being so hard on you. I haven't had good fresh blueberries, but it is well known that food tends to be better when you get it fresh from the place where it is grown. I can certainly vouch that tomatoes and strawberries that you get at the store are but a pale imitation of what you get if you can get them fresh. Maybe blueberries are an exception to this trend, but I doubt it. I'm 100% willing to believe that they are way better if you grow them yourself or get them from some farmer who grew them himself.

Loughla 3y ago
Honestly, fresh, frozen, store bought, and and all blueberries. They all taste like crunchy water to me. We had a blueberry farm less than 5 miles from our house. My family just raves about how good the fresh blueberries are. Crunchy water. They all taste like crunchy water. I wonder what's wrong with my taste capacity that there is an absolute absence of detection of blueberry.
- Scoundreller 3y ago
  I don’t think it’s the freshness factor, but rather the difference between wild/bush picked and cultivated. On the grocery-destined side, there’s probably an aspect of strain selection and farming practices that focuses on bulk without regard to flavour+texture.
barbazoo 3y ago
> I have no idea why the hell people are being so hard on you. I think it's this and the gatekeeping in general. > Store bought blueberries are garbage. They're obviously not garbage and some people don't have access to fresh Blueberries.
- bigstrat2003 3y ago
  I can't really fault OP for that. I would absolutely say that store bought tomatoes are garbage, even though I buy and eat them. The quality is so much better with fresh tomatoes that I think it's fair to say that the store bought ones are garbage. I understood OP as meaning the same thing with respect to blueberries.

goda90 3y ago

There are so many kinds of blueberries, and they all get sold without specifying what kind. There's also a matter of taste. I've had blueberries I like and blueberries I feel meh about from the store. I prefer less tart and some people prefer more tart.