>>I don't know what grocery stores you've been looking in, John, but around here strawberries are on sale about every week. (Blueberries and other berries, not so much, but they never have been). At least one grocery chain has strawberries on sale for around $1.99/pound every week. I have seen prices as low as 99 cents a pound.
Fair enough. Guess I needed to look harder.
>>Dragan's point about hard sponge jobs is entirely correct. Mainstream American strawberries are pumped full of preservatives so they remain red and perky for an extended shelf life. Definitely not as good as fresh, unadulterated strawberries. I still like them enough to eat them by the ton.
Agreed. Dragan is enjoying the proper strawberries that explode with flavor and require diligent protection from the birds who know exactly what they are!
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
