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Old 09-05-2013, 03:31 PM   #50
BigV
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Originally Posted by Griff View Post
We have excellent wild blueberries here as well. I have tame bushes that are way better than those oversize suckers. I think the blueberry breeders almost screwed up as badly as the strawberry folks. Wild strawberries are absolute dynamite. We're lucky with berries because Danny Wegman's buyers do a particularly good job keeping the right varieties on the shelf.
Not unlike the roses you'll find at the floral counter adjacent to the produce section in Safeway, etc. They look uniformly gorgeous, but they could be plastic or photoshopped for that matter, as they have no smell at all.

The strawberries here also emphasize, emphasis on size, size over flavor.
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