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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 ge

by 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.
  - barbazoo 3y ago
    I'm not saying they taste good. I just have a different definition of garbage then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  - ghaff 3y ago
    Tomatoes are an example of something that's not great especially out of season at the supermarket. I do support my local farmstand during the summer but for some fruits and vegetables there's less of a difference than with others. Honestly a lot of the time when I buy local low bush blueberries in Maine, they're frozen
latentcall 3y ago
The tomatoes I grow in my backyard are leagues better than any tomato sold in stores around here. It really does make a difference. No wonder a lot of people are so lukewarm on produce. The stuff people buy in the store is junk!
- bigstrat2003 3y ago
  Oh yeah the difference in quality is incredible. I can't grow tomatoes to save my life, but I love to get them from my local farmers market in the summer. They have so much more flavor that it's hard to believe they come from the same species of plant. Strawberries are the same thing, like I mentioned in my post. I encourage everyone to go pick strawberries at least once in their life. I like strawberries well enough normally. When you get them fully ripe, fresh from the plant, they are heavenly. It's something everyone should experience.

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.
- barbazoo 3y ago
  I'm not saying they taste good. I just have a different definition of garbage then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- ghaff 3y ago
  Tomatoes are an example of something that's not great especially out of season at the supermarket. I do support my local farmstand during the summer but for some fruits and vegetables there's less of a difference than with others. Honestly a lot of the time when I buy local low bush blueberries in Maine, they're frozen

latentcall 3y ago

The tomatoes I grow in my backyard are leagues better than any tomato sold in stores around here. It really does make a difference. No wonder a lot of people are so lukewarm on produce. The stuff people buy in the store is junk!

bigstrat2003 3y ago
Oh yeah the difference in quality is incredible. I can't grow tomatoes to save my life, but I love to get them from my local farmers market in the summer. They have so much more flavor that it's hard to believe they come from the same species of plant. Strawberries are the same thing, like I mentioned in my post. I encourage everyone to go pick strawberries at least once in their life. I like strawberries well enough normally. When you get them fully ripe, fresh from the plant, they are heavenly. It's something everyone should experience.