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sparkling husband primitive does a strawberry
« on: May 17, 2009, 07:26:30 PM »
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Oh my.

Problem here, however.

The sparkling husband primitive last week betrayed that he doesn't know excresence about what makes a good pizza.

And so how can he possibly know what makes a good strawberry?

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Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)         Sun May-17-09 11:05 AM
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Strawberries

Does anyone else think like this about strawberries?

When I was a kid, strawberries were a lot smaller. A given container had a lot of different sizes of berries. There were a few that had 'bad spots' that got cut out. One or three was unripe. Every one of them tasted richly like strawberries.

Today's strawberries are much bigger. Each is near perfect in shape and color. And to the berry, they're far more bland and tasteless.

The baby-talking warped primitive, who calls her food cute teddy-bear-like names:

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Warpy  (1000+ posts)        Sun May-17-09 11:10 AM
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1. Yes, the big ones are cardboard and keep gardeners growing that strawberry patch year after year to get real ones.

I don't know why agribusiness considers bigger and tasteless so much better than small and flavorful unless it's because the harvest is a lot cheaper.

Well, the primitives want cheap groceries.

One gets what one pays for.

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japple  (1000+ posts)         Sun May-17-09 11:27 AM
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2. Yep. And unless you grow your own, or get them from a local grower, those big ole cardboard strawberries are the only thing available. Fortunately, we have a small patch of "Tennessee Pride" strawberries which are bug-eaten and imperfect, but delicious. Same with tomatoes, peppers and just about anything else in the produce section of the grocery store. Apples are another one of the fruits that are now so huge that a person can't eat a whole one, and they have no taste, esp. the ones from Washington. I always look for local apples, or the ones grown in Michigan, NC, or Virginia.

I guess that's the price we pay for "cheap" food. When you can buy a quart of cardboard strawberries for $1.88-$2.50 that have been shipped from California, local farmers can't compete. Sad state of affairs.

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Lars39  (1000+ posts)      Sun May-17-09 11:42 AM
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3. I may have come across an exception...

Swerved over to the truck parked on the side of the road offering strawberries for sale a few weeks ago. These were *the* best strawberries I have ever seen or tasted, and they were large. They had just been picked a few hours before at Castalian Springs, near Gallatin TN. The color and taste was absolutely unbelievable. I'm thinking time getting to market contributes greatly to that cardboard taste.
I wish I had been able to buy more than 2 gallons.

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Warpy  (1000+ posts)        Sun May-17-09 01:42 PM
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5. I think tasteless fruit is picked green and hard so it will survive the packing and storage processes. As it's transported to the end sale point, it's gassed with ethylene to ripen it.

That applies to all of it, from tomatoes through apples and down to strawberries.

Well, the primitives demand fruits and vegetables that are out of season.

It's their own fault.

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grasswire  (1000+ posts)       Sun May-17-09 12:03 PM
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4. no local berries there?

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Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)         Sun May-17-09 03:13 PM
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7. Not yet ...... in fact, we have a freeze warning for tonight not 100 miles from here

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mtnester  (1000+ posts)        Sun May-17-09 07:15 PM
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9. Ohio has a frost warning...stupid cold north wind

this is as late I have seen a frost warning in decades where I live.

It is going to be a cold, wet summer. And I have to tell ya, I swear our prevailing winds have changed primary direction...they used to be westerly to northwesterly, now they just blow 90% of the time straight out of the north.

It must be climate change due to that the primitives demand cheap and out-of-season foods, the cultivation and cartage of which causes considerable carbon emissions.

If the primitives weren't always so demanding, the weather'd probably be better.

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elleng  (1000+ posts)        Sun May-17-09 07:52 PM
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10. Stinky, I'll get some Tues from washingtonsgreengrocers. Don't know from where, but hoping.

PS, SOME at giant have been quite good.

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housewolf  (1000+ posts)        Sun May-17-09 01:45 PM
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6. One of my pet peeves, too

Every once in a while I'll buy a plastic clamshell box of big strawberries even knowing that I'll be disappointed. And I ALWAYS regret it! They are rock-hard, without much flavor or juice and sour. Big hard strawberries may ship much better than small berries but the big growers have bred out most of the the wonderfulness of strawberries... with the possible excetion of the eye-appeal. I gotta admit, those big perfect berries are pretty... and a perfect examples of the truism that looks can be deceiving.

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eleny  (1000+ posts)      Sun May-17-09 03:25 PM
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8. Yes, it's a disappointment

The other night, though, they were so good combined with the cherries. Hubby made us dessert. He washed strawberries and cherries and gave me a bowl with both. I took a bite of a strawberry and then a bite of a cherry. The combo was so good.

And these strawberries are always redeemed in a bowl of cereal.

Years ago, my dad planted some strawberries here. They do come up but the robins always beat me to them. They're tiny and I imagine that they're tasty sweet.
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Re: sparkling husband primitive does a strawberry
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2009, 07:40:44 PM »
If the strawberries were small and juicy they would complain that they were being cheated on the /lb price or some other nonsense.

They live to be dissatisfied.
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Re: sparkling husband primitive does a strawberry
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2009, 07:43:41 PM »
Quote from: Carl on May 17, 2009, 07:40:44 PM
If the strawberries were small and juicy they would complain that they were being cheated on the /lb price or some other nonsense.

Of course they would.

The primitives don't understand the idea that one can't have his cake and eat it too.

One can have one thing or the other, but not both things.

The primitives can have great strawberries, at a price, and only in season.

Or the primitives can have less-than-great strawberries, cheap and out of season.

The primitives can have one thing or the other thing, but not both things.

The primitives just don't understand, due to their lesser cerebral capacities.

One can either have his cake or eat it.  One thing or the other, but not both things.
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Re: sparkling husband primitive does a strawberry
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2009, 07:45:14 PM »
They do live to complain, don't they ?

And if it wasn't price per pound, they would complain that far too much land is getting used per pound of product.
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Re: sparkling husband primitive does a strawberry
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2009, 07:50:36 PM »
Oh, for the love of Pete!  Slice the damn things in half, sprinkle some sugar over them, and let them set in the fridge for a few hours.  Problem solved.
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Re: sparkling husband primitive does a strawberry
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2009, 08:20:09 PM »
They're not happy unless they're not happy, and spreading their unhappiness.
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Re: sparkling husband primitive does a strawberry
« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2009, 08:23:54 PM »
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3. I may have come across an exception...

Swerved over to the truck parked on the side of the road offering strawberries for sale a few weeks ago. These were *the* best strawberries I have ever seen or tasted, and they were large. They had just been picked a few hours before at Castalian Springs, near Gallatin TN. The color and taste was absolutely unbelievable. I'm thinking time getting to market contributes greatly to that cardboard taste.
I wish I had been able to buy more than 2 gallons.

Another obvious DUmmy lie. Good produce does not exist in Middle Tennessee, unless you eat rocks or hay.
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Re: sparkling husband primitive does a strawberry
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2009, 08:26:49 PM »
Strawberries, big or small, taste best when locally grown and in season.  The same goes for pretty much all fruits and veggies.  You can eat just what is in season and have some truly excellent tasting fruit, or you can eat out of season, and have fruit that is decent, but not the best, and available year round. It comes down to priorities.
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Re: sparkling husband primitive does a strawberry
« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2009, 08:35:40 PM »
Stinky obviously never had any Florida strawberries.  :-)
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Re: sparkling husband primitive does a strawberry
« Reply #9 on: May 17, 2009, 09:57:35 PM »
Quote from: SarasotaRepub on May 17, 2009, 08:35:40 PM
Stinky obviously never had any Florida strawberries.  :-)

I'm referring to something last week, but the sparkling husband primitive obviously never had authentic pizza either.
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Re: sparkling husband primitive does a strawberry
« Reply #10 on: May 17, 2009, 10:11:18 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on May 17, 2009, 08:23:54 PM
Another obvious DUmmy lie. Good produce does not exist in Middle Tennessee, unless you eat rocks or hay.

:rotf: Head down Hwy 231 south of Lebanon during berry season.  You'll pass a ton of pick-your-own farms.  They're great.
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Re: sparkling husband primitive does a strawberry
« Reply #11 on: May 17, 2009, 10:52:03 PM »
I wonder how many of these primitives buy from the local farmer's markets?  After all, that would mean they have to make an extra inconvenient stop away from the grocery store.
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Re: sparkling husband primitive does a strawberry
« Reply #12 on: May 17, 2009, 11:26:51 PM »
What?  Are you kidding?

Most of those DUmbasses are atrophied city dwellers, like the rest of the vermin.  80% could only identify fresh air because they didn't have to chew it first.  They wouldn't know what to do if confronted with a real, farmers market.
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Re: sparkling husband primitive does a strawberry
« Reply #13 on: May 18, 2009, 01:01:21 AM »
Don't they realize the bigger ones are easier for the illegals to pick on the Big Corporate Farms?

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Re: sparkling husband primitive does a strawberry
« Reply #14 on: May 18, 2009, 06:02:35 AM »
Been eating huge local grown strawberries for a month here.....$8 a gallon you pick or $10 gallon they pick.

....and DUmmies, buy some sugar. Quit waiting for Obama/Castro to send you free sugar with that free gummint cheese.
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Re: sparkling husband primitive does a strawberry
« Reply #15 on: May 18, 2009, 06:04:57 AM »
I think I am blessed to have lived on the Eastern Shore in Maryland and now here in Tidewater Virginia. I don't know what is in the soil here and up there in MD but our garden goes nuts every year and the roadside stands have the best sweet corn and melons.
I am getting giddy just thinking about the huge honeydew melons that we get. Big but sweet as candy. :drool:
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Re: sparkling husband primitive does a strawberry
« Reply #16 on: May 18, 2009, 06:42:40 AM »
Quote from: SarasotaRepub on May 17, 2009, 08:35:40 PM
Stinky obviously never had any Florida strawberries.  :-)

No doubt!  One of the things I miss most about Florida  :bawl:
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« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2009, 04:10:23 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on May 18, 2009, 06:02:35 AM
Been eating huge local grown strawberries for a month here.....$8 a gallon you pick or $10 gallon they pick.

....and DUmmies, buy some sugar. Quit waiting for Obama/Castro to send you free sugar with that free gummint cheese.

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Re: sparkling husband primitive does a strawberry
« Reply #18 on: May 19, 2009, 03:34:54 AM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on May 17, 2009, 11:26:51 PM
  They wouldn't know what to do if confronted with a real, farmers market.

#1 problem: Most farmers don't take food stamps.
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