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It depends where you live. I'm in the Bay Area and strawberries are definitely not disappointing. In fact for several months of the year they are like food out
by hodgesrm 2y ago
It depends where you live. I'm in the Bay Area and strawberries are definitely not disappointing. In fact for several months of the year they are like food out of the Garden of Eden. You can recognize when they are in season by the uniform deep, crimson color of all the berries in the batch. And the price: cheap strawberries means there are a lot of them.
We usually get Tomatero Farms strawberries. Driscolls is OK but better for raspberries in my opinion. In season they all come from farms in locations like Monterey County, which is not far away. You have to eat them quickly, though, or they go bad.
- GloriousKoji 2y agoDriscolls is absolute garbage in my opinion. They always look pretty and are ubiquitous in many major markets but the taste has always been lacking. The best strawberries in the Bay Area are from the Japanese-American farms. They're not beholden to the "Big Ag" lab grown berries Driscolls and actually taste good but they're extremely seasonal and sometimes hard to find.
- hodgesrm 2y agoThis could be just faulty memory but my impression is that Driscolls was better 15 years ago. They are pretty heavy into optimization for the market and constrain growers to follow very exacting standards for product. [0] [0] https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/food-cooking/driscolls-strawberry-sweetest-batch-raspberry-blueberry-3b41e082 https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/food-cooking/driscolls-stra...
- archagon 2y agoI’m in the Bay Area too. Sometimes they’re pretty good when in season, but very few compare to the candy-like strawberries I picked straight off the plant in my childhood. If I’m lucky, a couple of strawberries from a farmer’s market pint will remind me of those. (Same goes for tomatoes and cucumbers.)