Strawberries do have a taste if you grow them yourself or find wild ones. The market ones have been GMO'd for size at the cost of taste. They are like red crunchy slightly citrus water. Bleh!
#50 I've worked in farming; I live in strawberry country (SoCAl). At one time, I could identify at least 8 different strawberry hybrids by taste or sight. I'm here to tell you: strawberries have not been 'GMOd'. They have been *hybridized* for shelf life, heat-tolerance, disease resistance, etc. They have been bred that way for generations - *well before the arrival of artificial genetic modification.* There is absolutely nothing wrong with them, other than lesser flavor. ...You want strawberries in January, which don't cost $25 dollars a pint? Thank a hybridizer for the low-simple-sugar/high-complex-carbohydrate strawberries which can be flown from the southern hemisphere to the US and sit on your selves until your privileged and ungrateful self gets to the store to buy them. Fyi: the Native Americans did similar things with crops over thousands of years. Hybridizing is the original GMO. Nothing you eat is as it was in nature. Nothing. So stop crying, and learn something about farming.
Strawberries do have a taste if you grow them yourself or find wild ones. The market ones have been GMO'd for size at the cost of taste. They are like red crunchy slightly citrus water. Bleh!
#50 I've worked in farming; I live in strawberry country (SoCAl). At one time, I could identify at least 8 different strawberry hybrids by taste or sight. I'm here to tell you: strawberries have not been 'GMOd'. They have been *hybridized* for shelf life, heat-tolerance, disease resistance, etc. They have been bred that way for generations - *well before the arrival of artificial genetic modification.* There is absolutely nothing wrong with them, other than lesser flavor. ...You want strawberries in January, which don't cost $25 dollars a pint? Thank a hybridizer for the low-simple-sugar/high-complex-carbohydrate strawberries which can be flown from the southern hemisphere to the US and sit on your selves until your privileged and ungrateful self gets to the store to buy them. Fyi: the Native Americans did similar things with crops over thousands of years. Hybridizing is the original GMO. Nothing you eat is as it was in nature. Nothing. So stop crying, and learn something about farming.
One had to wonder if that is the origin of the hick English "Yahoo" which is one of my go to affirmations