Just to mess with you!

[Pete J.]

Thought I would throw this up to tease those of you who are not in SoCal.  My first flat of the season! Local farm stand has the best berries on the planet.  Super sweet, juicy and big.  $44 a flat.  A fair amount never made them home.  ?

Edited March 10, 2022 by Pete J.

[peteski]

I love strawberries, and all we currently have here in the northeast USA is really crappy sour ones in small containers (with few rotting ones in each container).  I hate you!

[iamsuperdan]

I think posting that just to tease us should be a bannable offense!

?

The strawberries in stores here right now look nothing like that. Lifeless colours, bland flavour. Need to wait until mid-summer, when I can head out to BC's Okanagan region to get some fresh fruit. 

 

Great...now I'm hungry.

 

[Smoke Wagon]

This one’s to tease those of you who are in SoCal.

Behold, railroad tracks without hordes of trash littered all over.  

[TonyK]

Good looking strawberries! I remember way back when I picked berries in the summer it was a proud moment when a flat of these paid you $1.

[Rusty92]

Those look great! I am super jealous. 

[Oldcarfan27]

On 3/10/2022 at 7:55 AM, Smoke Wagon said:

This one’s to tease those of you who are in SoCal.

Behold, railroad tracks without hordes of trash littered all over.  

That's not trash, it's the packages you ordered that never got delivered to you, because some lowlife's decided to raid those containers.

[Oldcarfan27]

On 3/9/2022 at 9:44 PM, Pete J. said:

Thought I would throw this up to tease those of you who are not in SoCal.  My first flat of the season! Local farm stand has the best berries on the planet.  Super sweet, juicy and big.  $44 a flat.  A fair amount never made them home.  ?

That's the way I like to choose them, completely red (deeper the better), with no pale or orange sunless areas on them. Means they got to bask in the sun liberally before being plucked. None of those hothouse, shriveled, rushed to market frauds in this batch!

I wish we had more local farms like that around anymore. Local was always better!

[RSchnell]

Those are some good looking berries! I live right in the middle of Florida's Strawberry growing area. Here flats are around $20-25 depending on where you go. For now- the way they are building on every square inch of land they can get.  Don't even get me started on Florida's Citrus Industry.  

[webestang]

Man, I'm hungry now........!!!!