Yeah, Sundae. I realized that after I posted the review. To most Europeans, that is a steal. It's just that forty bux for lunch for four seems a lot, when, really, it isn't unless you're used to five bux a person for fast food - which is what most of us are doing. I'm gladly paying more money for better food these days. Six dollars a bunch for local grown strawberries versus 2 bunches for 4$ for those California monstrosities by Discoll farms.

The local strawberries are red inside. Driscoll's are white and taste the same way a forced December tomato tastes - yeeeeech.

We get a lot of strawberries grown in Spain. The type is Santa. They bounce. Seriously - there was a TV programme on teh evils of big supermarkets and they tested them. They are tough as old whatsits, they've been engineered that way to survive transit. And get this - the Spanish grow them for export to Britain. They won't touch them themselves. Bright red, flavourless, bouncy strawberries? Send them to the foreign devils! They eat big, squashy, untidy ones.

Yeah, you're spoiled for eating out prices. But then you add tax and huge gratuities I suppse. Still spoiled though :)

Even if we go to McDonalds it's unlikely we'll get out of it for under $50 for the 4 of us, and if we have a quick pub lunch or something like that, it can easily be over $20/head if you include 1 drink for each.

Fast food is much cheaper in the US than Aus thats for sure.

I have kinfolks who worked briefly on strawberry farms in Queensland.
The ones sent to the city were always the firm (to survive transit) ones, but they had generally been held in cool rooms for a week or two first until the market price was ready.
Meanwhile, the locals were buying bucketloads of fresh, ripe, soft, flavoursome strawberries at $2 per kilogram. "Seconds" were given away free to the pickers, and were sometimes used as compost or fertiliser, straight onto the garden, not because they were inedible, but simply because there was way too much. Life is hard, sometimes.

Life is too short to eat hard strawberries, I know that much.

My first job was picking strawberries for a local (large!) produce farm. 25 cents a quart. I never "liked" strawberries before that, but after being in the hot blazing sun for hours a juicy strawberry fresh-picked sure did taste good.

Now, my hometown has a huge festival every year. The first year of this festival, my mom was Campfire Girl leader and we sold snow cones. There were like 20 people in attendance. Now, you can't even walk through the darn thing.

Ahhh, the good old days. :)

Now I need to stop there and get a quart of berries and a bag of shelled garden peas (eat 'em raw right out of the bag, it's like candy.)

Hey! Shawnee is Strawberry Festival Queen! ;)

Yeah, I never go to that festival because I freak in ginormous crowds. I heard the line for strawberry donuts was continually 30-40 people long all weekend. Nuts to that.

I go to Hidden Valley Fruit Farm sometimes...more likely Dorothy Lane Market. Our version of "Whole Foods" if you will.

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We get good strawberries up here that's for sure. The ones from the glasshouse mountains are the best. A shop (that used to be local) sells them and they're the sweetest most delicious strawberries ever.

I do the almost hours drive to get them when they're in season...which will be soon. :)

Hahahahaaa...I haven't been to the festival in years, but in HS we loved it. We payed a quarter, I think, to have them page Mike Hunt. A few hundred times.

I used to go to the parade when my grandmother was alive, she lived a couple blocks away from a great vantage point and we could park at her house.

There are certainly tons of memories of my young days at that festival! That and the county fair. Sigh...good times!

C'mon S123 - get your usertitle on!

But but I like the one I have now.

Its not always about what you like, now is it? Bri went to a lot of trouble creating that for you. Its only polite to use it for the week.

Fine...you tell Conrad Birdie.

See now think of how happy she will be...