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Originally Posted by Griff
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.
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Hold on there, Griff: you're thirty or forty years behind the times on the strawberries. Here in the heart of strawberry country, we routinely eat huge strawberries the size of a baby's fist that are packed full of flavor. It might be simply that it's short shipping distances, or it might be that the berry growers around here decided, "okay, we got size, now how about flavor?" and got flavor too.
Way back when, the bigger the blander, and the little wild ones concentrated strawberry flavor impressively -- but now you don't need to go wild-berrying to have the good stuff. I make a strawberry shortcake of the farmed stuff that will knock your socks over your back fence. Sometimes with a dollop of Mexican crema agria (like a slightly sour rather thick kefir) for a bit of adult taste. Haven't tried liqueuring the whipped cream yet...