Nothing to get hung about

[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.

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.

[mister-jack.livejournal.com]

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

[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.