Mutant Strawberries from Downunder

[brightspark]

Everytime I eat one these days it reminds me [because of their lack of taste] of The best stawb’s I’ve ever tasted was at the side of a track in Dalby Forest. Tiny wild Stawberries, they were a stawberry explosion in you mouth, I can almost taste them now.

we had a patch of them at bottom of the garden very nice they were if we beat the dog to them . when in garden our Doberman used to sniff through them and eat the ripe ones

 

[PhillipM]

My German Shepard does the same, it's a race to see who can get to the ripe ones first.

 

[bigegg]

Why surprised? The width of my hand is 100mm, 10cm or about 4" in the old imperial scale!

or "a hand" as used for measuring horses...

 

[Ed.]

We had a year or two where the large strawberries were pretty tasteless, I think that they changed the variety or the weather has changed and improved the quality as the latest giant ones are very tasty. Those first ones were quite convoluted like having multiple lobes, these ones are more the traditional shape. Almost tempted to try and plant some myself. I just wonder what they are doing to the plants to get such a large size.

 

[8ob]

Is it me or do our strawberries down here in Oz seem to be getting bigger and bigger, I certainly don't remember getting mutant sized strawberries when I was a kid.

Could just be small hands you have there Ed, cant do sillymeters either so unless that alleged gurt strawberry finds its way next to the obligatory mug for comparison it could well be the size of a raspberry

Bob

 

[Ed.]

Could just be small hands you have there Ed, cant do sillymeters either so unless that alleged gurt strawberry finds its way next to the obligatory mug for comparison it could well be the size of a raspberry Bob

Sorry 8ob, but that strawberry has long passed (pun intended) into a realm that you don't want to go there.

 

[brightspark]

Sorry 8ob, but that strawberry has long passed (pun intended) into a realm that you don't want to go there.

pun or punnet

 

[Ed.]

more like poonet, but we are getting very "Off topic now" fftopic:

 

[Keith 66]

We were in Norway a few years back visiting friends, walking in the woods wild strawberries were everywhere, tiny about the size of small peas, flavour like nothing else, pop one in your mouth & it is essence of strawberry with knobs on. And linden & blue berries, gorgeous!

 

[Shox Dr]

We were in Norway a few years back visiting friends, walking in the woods wild strawberries were everywhere, tiny about the size of small peas, flavour like nothing else, pop one in your mouth & it is essence of strawberry with knobs on. And linden & blue berries, gorgeous!

Them’s the doodads. Its abit like Gordon's Export Tanqueray Gin, once you have that all other gins taste pale.


Picked some Cheeries this morning, the top ons are very dark and sweet.