Your food isn't food

[Glowworm]

Not sure what's up with strawberries, but I remember them having more flavor and being red, not white, inside 40 years ago.

How much of the food people eat today isn't really food?

 

[akmike47]

“You’re food not food” it most definitely is food.You’re comparing closer to wild varieties to varieties that are chosen and grown for yield and size not flavor. It is a strawberry she’s just a moron other morons listen to and do zero research. I found the answer in seconds.

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Modern strawberries are generally larger, firmer, and have a longer shelf life than older varieties, but they often have a less complex flavor. Old or heirloom strawberries, like wild strawberries, are smaller but typically have a more intense and complex flavor profile. Modern breeding has focused on size, firmness, and disease resistance, sometimes at the expense of flavor.“

This shits not hard to figure out. Low quality for quantity doesn’t make it “not food”.

 

[91Eunozs]

I remember walking through the strawberry fields near our house growing up in FL, to get to the woods we played in as kids… of course we always grabbed handfuls of the berries OTW. They were the same red and juicy that the bRit chick shows.

I haven’t seen a real vine-ripened strawberry or tomato in years; not one. All have had that mealy/mushy inside despite a nice ripened look. Probably chemically ripened so they can make it to market.

Sad.

Edit: strawberries from yesterday’s grocery store run…and these were the best of the ones we cut up this morning. :-/

 

[XP1K]

A lot of our food grown here now has pretty low nutritional value due to the minerals being zapped from the soil in all the years of commercial farming. It looks pretty. Buts that's about it.

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

varieties that are chosen and grown for yield and size not flavor.

Same with many veg's, especially tomatoes. Store bought vs home grown or local farmers market, there's a huge diff.

 

[supercorndogs]

Genrally big comercial tomtoates don't have much brix anymore because they are grown in big green house where they run just enough EC to get them to size and turn them red. Another major factor with fruit and veg is picking them unripe enough to make it market and still have some shelf life.

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

I remember walking through the strawberry fields near our house growing up in FL, to get to the woods we played in as kids…

Near Plant city?
Use to go to there during the festivals and the taste started changing in the late 70's-mid 80's to the wife & I.

 

[ironpony52]

 

[ggmanning]

I have never seen a strawberry like that. They are still field grown here, nobody buys them from the grocery store. People here eat them until the fields shut down and then not again until next year. My neighbor has expanded to several large greenhouses growing tomatoes, cucs and hemp as tobacco has gotten less and less. The tomatoes are beautiful but nothing like what we grow to eat. I suspect that is where most store bought tomatoes come from....large greenhouses. They are OK in December I guess when you have forgotten what a real tomatoe tastes like.

 

[Maggot]

Same with many veg's, especially tomatoes. Store bought vs home grown or local farmers market, there's a huge diff.

Huge difference. I cnat eat store bought tomatoes, they taste and feel like Styrofoam. Even the store bought heirlooms arent the same. Nothing quite like a fresh Cherokee Purple fresh off the vine. I have a hard time with apples, used to pick then right off granny's tree and they taste great, todays, not worth eating. I'd bet 80% of folks have never tasted a fresh pulled potato, or corn picked off the stalk then laid on a hot grill for 15 minutes.

 

[TheHorta]

Bugs are delicious.

 

[akmike47]

Same with many veg's, especially tomatoes. Store bought vs home grown or local farmers market, there's a huge diff.

Yup, I fucking hate tomatoes but I’ve grown a ton out of boredom