Re: English Strawberries
Originally Posted by
swimfeeders
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They are huge, but so lovely and juicy.
Beats the supermarket ones every time.
Spot on there Swim. I have absolutely despaired of the sub-standard strawberries that have been in the supermarkets all year. Just tasteless rubbish, seldom properly ripe and often shipped half way round the planet, same with the raspberries.
I buy only Scottish or British as a result and do my best to find good varieties. Supermarkets mostly stock the rather tasteless old Elsanta variety, the most massively produced.
There are much better ones. Driscolls, Sonata, Cenenary etc.
But you just can't beat them straight out of a proper farm.