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[venta]

Strawberries that work!

At the weekend, I bought a special-offer two-pack of British strawberries from Tesco. For the first time in years, I have been eating strawberries that work properly. By which I mean you can grab hold of the spider[*] and pull, and a neat little white core of strawberry just comes straight out.

Hurray!


[*] by which I mean the calyx, by which I mean the green leafy bit at the top.

Comments

[ebee.livejournal.com]

Thats really exciting! Strawberries are of course evil, but better to know they are functional evil!

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Must be some [new|old] mutant breed.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Old, surely? All the homegrown strawberries from our garden when I was a kid worked properly.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Mm, I meant to imply: perhaps new to supermarkets, but old in real life.

Strawberry fields forever

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Though I do think there's something Wrong about eating strawberries in September. Are they still British glasshouse ones, or imported?

I'm all about plums, pears, apples and all that mellow fruitfulness business at the moment.

Re: Strawberry fields forever

[venta.livejournal.com]

Tesco made a big thing of them being British, so presumably glasshouse (although I don't think it said).

I was all about needing a fancy pudding and having a surfeit of egg whites, and pear/apple pavlova sounded a bit weird ;)

Re: Strawberry fields forever

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

It would have been apple meringue all the way for me.
http://www.inmamaskitchen.com/RECIPES/RECIPES/Desserts/applemeringue.html

Re: Strawberry fields forever

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is more autumnal. Less easy to prepare in advance, though (I made the pavlova shell the night before, so just whipped some cream and threw things at it when I wanted it).

And the visitors who ate the pavlova did bring me some apples from their tree, so maybe that's Sunday's pud sorted...

Re: Strawberry fields forever

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

Please don't think anything untoward when I murmer; 'Mmm, plums!'

Re: Strawberry fields forever

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

They're so cheap in the shops right now! And I need to go and raid some of the trees on the housing estates here too - they're absolutely laden. Might make plum chutney. With lots of cinnamon. Oh yeah.

[mister-jack.livejournal.com]

Why don't strawberries all work anymore? I'm sure it was the norm.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I've no idea - probably (as suggested by shui_long below) that non-working varieties grow better mass-produced, or are more usual in the forn parts from which we import masses of strawberries.

[shui-long.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to see I'm not the only person to remember proper English strawberries that work, just as you describe - I suspect that it's all to do with different varieties being easier to grow out of season and/or more resistant to being packed and sent around the world.