Quoting Michael Loo to All on 06-07-19 07:43 <=-

Driscoll's strawberries (product of USA) - these were
prettty good looking, good rich color. Not much aroma and
less taste. Even the big blushing beauties had a hard white
core and didn't have much appeal. Cooking fruit, you might
say; all I can add is that I hope the US farmers get their
act together before the season is over.

Haven't seen anything local yet.... the season seems to have been slowed
down by the cool temps to date....

Naturipe blueberries (product of Georgia) - a mix of sizes,

I just the other day was telling Ruth that I got some of that brand (I
typoed the a as a u, though) but it said it was from NC, not GA....

more smaller ones, some unripe. Okay flavor, not as good as
some of the Mexican and Peruvian Driscoll's ones we've had
in the winter, but certainly better than the strangely fibrous
Mexican ones that Driscoll foisted off on us twice this year
so far.

What I got was a nice mix of sizes and more ripe than not... nice flavor
from the ripe ones... :)

American blueberries (product of USA) - a mixture of smallish
very sour berries and medium-to-large sweetish but tasteless
ones. These were inferior to most we've had, which made the
"patriotic berry" nonsense on the box particularly irritating.

Oh, dear.....

ttyl neb

... Heatless habaneros. That'll benefit society as much as seedless corn.

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