[lbo-talk] methyl idodide on strawberries

[Wojtek S]

Shag: "You can't even get good tasting local strawberries that you
pick yourself around here. I guess they've created berries that are
much more hardy and can handle the packing and shipping process at the
expense of taste. There must be heirloom berry growers somewhere!?"

[WS:] Yup.  I just came back from Eastern Europe where I stayed for 2
weeks during the strawberry season.  The taste does not even compare.
However, strawberries there are pretty much seasonal - you get them
only in June and the first half of July - whereas you can get them
here pretty much all year round.  They look good on a shelf but taste
like a cardboard.  The same is true of tomatoes - they do not even
have any smell.  And mangoes - they are pretty dull here but much more
flavorful in Asia.  Even oranges taste much better in Spain than they
typically do here, which I find strange, because they are grown here
rather than imported form the end of the earth.

I guess most Americans - especially those untraveled - do not even
realize how much they are shortchanged by supermarkets here - food is
far more expensive and tastes much worse than elsewhere.

Wojtek