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u/reticulatedtampon 1d ago
I find that bigger strawberries don't taste very good most of the time. They're just pumped with water to get bigger. Usually it's the smaller ones that are packed with more natural sweetness and flavour.
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u/Always-_-Sarcastic 1d ago
Please tell me this doesn't just apply to strawberries.
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u/gamjanamja629 1d ago
Its the opposite, a larger phallus has a higher surface area which means more smegma for flavoring
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u/snailpubes 1d ago
Its called faciation, and can occur in many plant species.
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u/WallBurnt 1d ago
As soon as I saw the unripe side, I knew this tasted like crunchy water with seeds.
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u/Obant 1d ago
There as a strawberry farm near me where this is untrue. But for most grocery store ones, it is
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u/ohnomoisttoes 1d ago
Strawberries don't ripen after harvest, and almost every kind of fresh produce is underripe because it lasts longer and ships better. Frozen strawberries are actually usually fully ripe and actually taste like strawberries... but the delicate flesh means freezing also makes them mushy. Fine for smoothies and baking though.
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u/The_Last_Leviathan 21h ago
This is the great thing about those pick yourself places. You can take as much as you need and you can actually choose the ripe strawberries instead of getting underripe, watery ones from the grocery store and in my experience they are either the same price or cheaper.
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u/timmeh87 1d ago
if you want a real eye opener watch the More Perfect Union docu on factory strawberries
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u/Demonweed 1d ago
Yeah, when I was a kid we grew some decent strawberries at home. They were typically no bigger than olives, but they seemed to pack in a lot more flavor than modern supermarket strawberries. Also, I sometimes found wild strawberries while foraging. Perhaps because I always seemed to find them in shady spots, they were even smaller yet also intensely tasty.
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u/ScratchyMarston18 1d ago
Yeah, anytime someone brings out the mutant strawberries, I’ll pass. Throw those out for some rabbits to gnaw on.
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u/KillaThing 5h ago
True, with this kind of size, it would be good for syrups. Where you add sugar to it. Maybe baking too.
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u/stewpedassle 1d ago
Oh, this is going to be fun. We'll go step by step so that you'll be let in on just how hilarious this is.
Step 1: please define "GMO" for me.
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u/Practical-Sink-3987 1d ago
Water berry. Those are the berries as a child you think are better. Darker the berry the sweeter the juice 😉
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u/40_Is_Not_Old 1d ago
Cut that thing open and it's probably all white inside and doesn't taste even remotely good.
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u/ninjasaid13 1d ago
don't eat it, you it will modify your genetics and turn you into a cancerous strawberry zombie.
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u/zavorak_eth 15h ago
We used to go these pick your strawberries farms and then year by year the berries got bigger with less and less strawberry flavor, just started tasting like water. That's when we stopped going.
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u/Money_Tennis1172 15h ago
This one needs to be entered in the strawberry festival held every may in Oxnard CA.
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u/Stress6009 1d ago
Is this GMO?
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u/Cosmic-Gore 1d ago
No, it's completely natural.
Just like how humans can have conjoined twins, extra limbs or whatever when born. Plants also have this and it's called 'fasciation'.
If you search up Strawberry fasciation you'll get images with exactly the same strawberries and it can be cause by a variety of factors, random mutations, environmental (frost etc..) and actual physical damage to the growing parts
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u/LazyLich 1d ago
Sure.
But so are all the "regular-looking" produce and ingredients you see at the store.
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u/Classroom_GD 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/ACQeTePpzL4A6rOrwK
Watch: Someone is gonna say it’s AI.
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