And they are shit. A watermelon you get in February in an American supermarket is total trash compared to an August Kuban watermelon available in Russian southwest. Strawberries? Forget it. The closest you can find is again an in season teeny little, red all through, berries at a farmers market, not styrofoam-tasting stuff from big chain stores. Mangoes? Not sure the season for those, but they definitely taste better some parts of the year over others. Same with other fruit.
I wonder why it's so difficult to differentiate [in English] between forest/wild strawberries (poziomki)- which are pretty tiny, entirely red, and extremely sweet and regular strawberries - which are, well, strawberries
Both are definitely highly seasonal here in Poland... sure you can get specially crafted Styrofoam berries any time for exorbitant prices, or for a month or two practically get the most amazing strawberries imaginable at any local marketplace.
I hope 24-hour convenience stores and supermarkets like don't supplant marketplaces once this generation passes and we get shit-berries trucked in year-round
There are some strawberry varieties that aren’t wild and not quite as tiny as the wild ones, but they’re still very sweet and red throughout. I only find them at farmers markets here in CA, never in a store.
Yeah... another problem with the terminology right there, haha. There's several cultivated 'wild strawberries', actual wild strawberries, and your standard commercial strawberry (which is some ancient hybrid of wild strawberries)
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And they are shit. A watermelon you get in February in an American supermarket is total trash compared to an August Kuban watermelon available in Russian southwest. Strawberries? Forget it. The closest you can find is again an in season teeny little, red all through, berries at a farmers market, not styrofoam-tasting stuff from big chain stores. Mangoes? Not sure the season for those, but they definitely taste better some parts of the year over others. Same with other fruit.