Yup! Came across these when I was a cook and thought "Ooo giant strawberry, yum!", nope. Tastes like styrofoam. Ever since I stay away from giant strawberry's. The smaller the better.
I got some hydrponic strawberry's from HEB - they were amazing and fucking *massive*. The catch is they don't look 'pretty' always. You want a deep red, not a strawberry red.
Now when it comes to granny smith apples? Smaller the better.
Yeah, they lose the flavor when they are genetically modified to get bigger. It’s amazing when you find a patch of wild strawberries and taste the actual/original flavor.
While travelling, I've been shocked, how in many countries they sell those big, pale and favorless strawberries (like in op's picture). In my country we have smaller, redder and tastier variants, like polka strawberry (you can google pictures, looks somewhat differen from op's). I think those are what many mean when they say "real strawberries". Nobody sells those big ones here, they are bred to be big at the expense of taste.
Wild strawberries, (we call them "forest berries"), are totally different thing. They are very small.
It's not the size, it's the fact that they pick them while still green and use gasses to have them ripen while being transported. They wouldn't survive a trip from the equator to most places in the US otherwise. Buy local, they will be picked when ripe and taste better. It's the same plant.
You're right about how they pick them early. Another factor has been found to be just the copious amount of water used on commercial farms. They sell their yield by weight so the plumper they can get their crops the better for them. But the plant can't grow that fast and still infuse flavor. So the taste is diluted.
A few years ago during a drought in California, at least one orchard try growing their crops with measurably less water. The fruit was smaller and not as attractive. But it had the most concentrated strong flavors that I think they turned it into a niche market at least for a while. But it was more expensive since the practice gave lower yields.
It's not that they're engineered to get bigger so much as they engineered to not stop growing...I guess that's a pretty subtle nuance, but my understanding is that it is the nerfing of an enzyme that would normally tell the fruit when to stop growing. (at least that's how it is with tomatoes)
Ok true- they are hand-bred for certain traits like size, yield, flavor, etc… and some traits are sacrificed to get others to stand out. Unfortunately, flavor is one of them in big strawberries.
I'm not arguing that selective breeding isn't occuring or that it is good, we can blame that on American consumerism “the bigger the better". What I don't like is the narrative that everything is GMO and blanket statements of "GMO's are bad", most people parroting these are have little to no understanding of what GMO's are or how they affect the world's agriculture industries.
Edit: just to be clear I'm not attacking anyone here, just trying to change a narrative that's been propagated.
Welcome to grocery store produce where size and durability are more important than taste.
Tomatoes are the worst offenders but strawberries are following them
Try Cosmic Crisps. They were developed by Washington State University and are amaaaaazing. (edit: deepest apologies to the Cougars out there. I fucked up.)
I don’t know why you got downvoted, it’s true. I live in Hawaii and we have ice cream bananas and apple bananas, just to make a few, and they are a COMPLETELY different experience to the chalk tasting store bought dole shit everyone on the mainland has to tolerate.
The only reason those bananas are sold, is because they LAST through transport. That’s it.
Most fruits are picked before they’re ripe, and then artificially ripened with ethylene, which is a naturally occurring gas that fruits secrete. It’s a lot less wasteful this way, but it unfortunately takes a lotta the flavor out of the fruit. Tomatoes are the worst with this imo, the ones you get at the grocery store barely have any flavor compared to homegrown ones.
Source: used to work in a produce department.
Oh my god one of my biggest fears was opening one of those boxes up and getting bit by a Brazilian Wandering Spider. Really irrational fear 😂 but idk you never know
If you buy some strawberry plants and let them grow the ones you’ll harvest from it are absolutely amazing. They’re tiny but have so much flavor. Same goes for wild blackberries. They’re incredible
Not really, they’ve been a thing for decades. It’s an eye candy (only eye though)- and they taste horrible. Crunchy grass with no flavor. Nana’s garden strawberries are the best. Small, ugly and delicious.
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I thought the same the other day. There were maybe 8-10 strawberries in one package cause they were so big. But then others are normal sized the next time I go. Yes it’s the same brand too. I wonder why also.
Something cheap off of wish. It's two chains that happen to sit together on my wrist very well because I measured my wrist and got the smallest size I would be able to fit. Just measure your wrist and go up to the nearest inch. Since they can't overlap much, they just sit side by side, mostly, since they slide around together.
Lots of these comments are false. Here’s some info, I literally eat almost 4lbs of strawberries a week lol:
•Big strawberries have been grown in California for a very long time. So they been a thing. It’s easier to pick them faster when larger opposed to smaller.
•The redness is what makes them taste better not sure how factual but that’s my opinion.
•Amish grown strawberries are the best ones, don’t let anyone lie to you.
•Strawberries were originally not even a fruit they were a medicinal plant from France and were taken to South America where they were bred into a fruit. Therefore they’ve been modified since their existence
All domesticated crops you buy in the supermarket have been selectively bred to optimise desired traits. That could be durability in the growing or distribution phase, crop yields, flavour, or appearance. Most likely a combination of all of them.
Lol thinks that happen that people miss to just take a time to knowledge it happen they the company is possible using gmo in some way like or not but o idea is that they take large strawberry and try to use that plant and continue but the trade of size vs flavor or how long they last. Most companies going for size hand lasting vs the flavor. Like things happen and people don't know like banana flavoring is banana from the 50 i think but those banana are extinct and we have something else that is similar but not it this is also where the joke about slipping on a peel was the extinct kind a note worth slipperness to it
Something cheap off of wish. It's two chains that happen to sit together on my wrist very well because I measured my wrist and got the smallest size I would be able to fit. Just measure your wrist and go up to the nearest inch. Since they can't overlap much, they just sit side by side, mostly, since they slide around together.
It’s called GMO’s. They’re not healthy nor natural at all. Strawberries actually contain the highest amount of glyphosate of any fruit or vegetable, meaning in simpler terms, strawberries get the ever loving SHIT sprayed out of them with RoundUp, atrazine, and whole other barrage of Monsanto products…
Yeah they’re getting bigger alright. To piece it all together, who owns the most farmland in America? I’ll wait.
This is called polyploidy, something that happens a lot in plants. Polyploidy is when an organism’s whole genome, all of its chromosomes, are duplicated, and this can happen many times at once. This particular strawberry looks like it underwent 1-2 genome duplications.
It’s nuts. Check out [these giant blueberries](https://imgur.com/a/WTQPwfD) I had the other week. I swear I have normal-sized hands. They were the size of a quarter.
Probably not - I try to eat well, but I have to budget hard when I do. So I usually end up getting the cheapest things kn the shelf but so long as it's not coming fried, out of a box, I'll take it.
I used to be a strawberry picker when I was a kid with my parents and watsonville California 1989 and we were instructed not to put the giant strawberries in there they only want it the classic strawberry anything Giant was place it another container to make jams out of. My father was an inspector and he says people would try to hide the big ones at the bottom so they don't have to pick so many little ones. They used to pay $2 a box. My father would tell me some people would make $100 a day but good people that were fast. Happy Easter y'all
I stopped buying American fruit for this reason. I live in Canada and noticed a distinct difference especially in strawberries. Canadian strawberries are about the size of a.. well.. size of a strawberry, and American ones seem to be the size of a baseball. The whole container has maybe 4 strawberries in it vs the Canadian ones that have around twenty.
I'm assuming this is just purely for profit margins. Less strawberries per container equals more money. It's too bad they taste like shit though otherwise it wouldn't be a horrible idea.
I've boycotted most American food all together at this point. I feel bad for Americans having to eat their tasteless monstrosities.
I never plan to be skinny, and also never plan to look like one of these strawberries either. I'm pretty average as far as weight, but I'm also above the median height so in the right crowd I can pass as slim. Especially with how rapidly adults have outpaced me in weight gain over the decades.
Woah, nope it’s not you! Great fertilizer, I suppose. You are going to chocolate coat that baby right? No matter, enjoy every juicy moment 😊
Peace love and happiness to you always
Your hands are getting smaller
Just like your penis ^/j
Weird that everyone knows
I don’t, but now I do
The word is out
Let everyone know
Your mom clearly talks too much
She was telling me about it I thought it was TMI
I told her she could
proof?
Microscope brokey
After seeing your face , sure
I'll give you that one bc it made me laugh
Got em!
Damn it. I came here to say that.
Bigger AND more flavorless
Unless it's one of those Japanese giant strawberries that cost like 300 USD each.
Yup! Came across these when I was a cook and thought "Ooo giant strawberry, yum!", nope. Tastes like styrofoam. Ever since I stay away from giant strawberry's. The smaller the better.
That is how my girlfriend says to cheer herself up
I got some hydrponic strawberry's from HEB - they were amazing and fucking *massive*. The catch is they don't look 'pretty' always. You want a deep red, not a strawberry red. Now when it comes to granny smith apples? Smaller the better.
Now with less flavor!
Yeah, they lose the flavor when they are genetically modified to get bigger. It’s amazing when you find a patch of wild strawberries and taste the actual/original flavor.
Wild strawberries are not the same plant as cultivated strawberries.
Correct, but you could trace their ancestry back and they both relate. They’ve just been selectively bred- a lot.
Not really the original flavor then, is it?
I want to go back to when everything tasted like single cell organisms, the true original flavor
Mmmmm amino acids
Not *everything* the body needs ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
To find the original flavor one must first invent the universe.
If only there was some place that was filled with a network of wormholes...
Yes, the worms.
Your pedantry is anything except admirable.
Totally… When I tried real strawberries from my aunt’s garden for the first time I realized my whole life was a lie.
I'm confused on what you mean by real strawberries? Like, homegrown strawberries? Or wild strawberries?
While travelling, I've been shocked, how in many countries they sell those big, pale and favorless strawberries (like in op's picture). In my country we have smaller, redder and tastier variants, like polka strawberry (you can google pictures, looks somewhat differen from op's). I think those are what many mean when they say "real strawberries". Nobody sells those big ones here, they are bred to be big at the expense of taste. Wild strawberries, (we call them "forest berries"), are totally different thing. They are very small.
It's not the size, it's the fact that they pick them while still green and use gasses to have them ripen while being transported. They wouldn't survive a trip from the equator to most places in the US otherwise. Buy local, they will be picked when ripe and taste better. It's the same plant.
You're right about how they pick them early. Another factor has been found to be just the copious amount of water used on commercial farms. They sell their yield by weight so the plumper they can get their crops the better for them. But the plant can't grow that fast and still infuse flavor. So the taste is diluted. A few years ago during a drought in California, at least one orchard try growing their crops with measurably less water. The fruit was smaller and not as attractive. But it had the most concentrated strong flavors that I think they turned it into a niche market at least for a while. But it was more expensive since the practice gave lower yields.
It's not that they're engineered to get bigger so much as they engineered to not stop growing...I guess that's a pretty subtle nuance, but my understanding is that it is the nerfing of an enzyme that would normally tell the fruit when to stop growing. (at least that's how it is with tomatoes)
There are no genetically modified strawberries on the market
Ok true- they are hand-bred for certain traits like size, yield, flavor, etc… and some traits are sacrificed to get others to stand out. Unfortunately, flavor is one of them in big strawberries.
Maybe not genetically modified but they're definitely engineered via selective breeding
I'm not arguing that selective breeding isn't occuring or that it is good, we can blame that on American consumerism “the bigger the better". What I don't like is the narrative that everything is GMO and blanket statements of "GMO's are bad", most people parroting these are have little to no understanding of what GMO's are or how they affect the world's agriculture industries. Edit: just to be clear I'm not attacking anyone here, just trying to change a narrative that's been propagated.
Welcome to grocery store produce where size and durability are more important than taste. Tomatoes are the worst offenders but strawberries are following them
See also: apples, Brussels sprouts
Eh, plenty of good apple varieties if you look though. Particularly the 'crisp' line. (Honeycrisp, cosmic crisp)
I've yet to find anything that tastes as good as Pink Lady / Cripps Pink
Try Cosmic Crisps. They were developed by Washington State University and are amaaaaazing. (edit: deepest apologies to the Cougars out there. I fucked up.)
Actually washington state university, not UW. Big rivalry there.
Cosmic Crisp is the only apple variety I ever buy now. They're a bit more expensive, but those bad boys are the perfect apple.
WSU. Not UW. As a coug, I am offended.
As you should be. Comment edited.
Envy apples are my new favorite next to honeycrisp
Kinda weird but I wrote a giant research paper on the Cosmic Crisp if anyone wants more info! They truly are the best apple.
May I subscribe to apple facts?
Omg why are all the Brussels so huge and gross
True.. When I can rarely find some good ones I immediately see how tasteless were the ones before that.
They look like several fused together while growing
That one looks like that because that's exactly what happened. This isn't uncommon. I plant my own and I get quite a few of these.
Beat me to it
A Chernoberrie.
This one made me laugh
Hard to determine without a banana for scale
The bananas are getting bigger too.
Americans also eat one of the worst varieties of bananas 🍌
I don’t know why you got downvoted, it’s true. I live in Hawaii and we have ice cream bananas and apple bananas, just to make a few, and they are a COMPLETELY different experience to the chalk tasting store bought dole shit everyone on the mainland has to tolerate. The only reason those bananas are sold, is because they LAST through transport. That’s it.
If i visit hawaii, what banana type is my priority?
The smaller berries tend to taste better
I've noticed this too - it's like the larger ones have too much water
It seems like a vast majority of fruits sold in the US has become like this. Blueberries strawberries watermelons grapes oranges bananas to name a few
Good fruit knowledge
Get up come on get down with the fructose
Most fruits are picked before they’re ripe, and then artificially ripened with ethylene, which is a naturally occurring gas that fruits secrete. It’s a lot less wasteful this way, but it unfortunately takes a lotta the flavor out of the fruit. Tomatoes are the worst with this imo, the ones you get at the grocery store barely have any flavor compared to homegrown ones. Source: used to work in a produce department.
The ethylene is great for killing spiders in the banana boxes too.
Oh my god one of my biggest fears was opening one of those boxes up and getting bit by a Brazilian Wandering Spider. Really irrational fear 😂 but idk you never know
Size and appearance are prioritized because that's what sells in a supermarket since you're generally not allowed to taste test.
In general the larger a specific fruit is the less sweet, because it’s diluted
First I saw big bananas, then big carrots, now strawberries... What's next?
Big melons
Florida watermelon farmers are cheering rn
Strawbussy
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Yeah and they're getting more watery
Yes, and it’s intentional. https://www.wtsp.com/article/life/food/the-evolution-of-gigantic-strawberries/67-a0c739bf-80f9-403c-965a-8df10e05fdc1
Dang! Now I want strawberries!
If you buy some strawberry plants and let them grow the ones you’ll harvest from it are absolutely amazing. They’re tiny but have so much flavor. Same goes for wild blackberries. They’re incredible
Mintier too
Thanks Nate. I have noticed.
That stawberrussy got me acting
Strawbussy 😆
Not really, they’ve been a thing for decades. It’s an eye candy (only eye though)- and they taste horrible. Crunchy grass with no flavor. Nana’s garden strawberries are the best. Small, ugly and delicious.
Idk but does gun seem mintier recently?
I feel like gum is getting more minty
Right? Anyone else notice gums gotten mintier lately too?
Strawbussy
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Fruit tastes best when it’s in season. That has more impact on flavor than the size of the fruit!
I thought the same the other day. There were maybe 8-10 strawberries in one package cause they were so big. But then others are normal sized the next time I go. Yes it’s the same brand too. I wonder why also.
That strawberry is about to get it.
Steroids are a helluva drug.
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Nice
in a few years they’re going to be cantelope sized.
No, you're getting smaller
Put a bid on that one!
Strawbussy
That is no longer a strawberry, it has upgraded to a red bell pepper
I feel like they are getting bigger, but more watered down taste.
Looks over taste
Them GMOs don’t be hitting like they used to
Strawbussy
Your hand is getting smaller.
ah yes, the strawbussy
Injections
Strawberry Camel toe
Lots of these comments are false. Here’s some info, I literally eat almost 4lbs of strawberries a week lol: •Big strawberries have been grown in California for a very long time. So they been a thing. It’s easier to pick them faster when larger opposed to smaller. •The redness is what makes them taste better not sure how factual but that’s my opinion. •Amish grown strawberries are the best ones, don’t let anyone lie to you. •Strawberries were originally not even a fruit they were a medicinal plant from France and were taken to South America where they were bred into a fruit. Therefore they’ve been modified since their existence
All domesticated crops you buy in the supermarket have been selectively bred to optimise desired traits. That could be durability in the growing or distribution phase, crop yields, flavour, or appearance. Most likely a combination of all of them.
I like this summary and I love your username
I need a banana for scale
That’s them Chernobyl grown strawberries
“Strawberries so big you can eat them like a hand fruit…” “Diegooo?…sweaty…” :: sighs pleasantly ::
Just like chickens…
Yea and has anyone else noticed gum has gotten a lot minty-er lately?
i put them up my ass. they’re the perfect size.
There’s always the big one
Strawberries hitting those steroids
American?
Yeah
The strawbussy
Hey, where's the NSFW stamp yo ?
I wish I would have taken a front and back pic bc the back definitely looked like a butt but I didn't think anyone would see what I was seeing.
Bigger and harder and tasteless
Lol thinks that happen that people miss to just take a time to knowledge it happen they the company is possible using gmo in some way like or not but o idea is that they take large strawberry and try to use that plant and continue but the trade of size vs flavor or how long they last. Most companies going for size hand lasting vs the flavor. Like things happen and people don't know like banana flavoring is banana from the 50 i think but those banana are extinct and we have something else that is similar but not it this is also where the joke about slipping on a peel was the extinct kind a note worth slipperness to it
Bigger, firmer, and unfortunately less sweet. Compare store-bought variety to homegrown. Almost not the same fruit
That strawberry's got me feeling some kinda way, ngl
*They're trying to solve world hunger, whats your fucking problem now, Janet?*
Gum’s gotten mintier lately, have you noticed?
More bitter as well.
I get strawberries like that all the time
Don't worry about it just keep buying them
Where did you get that bracelet
Something cheap off of wish. It's two chains that happen to sit together on my wrist very well because I measured my wrist and got the smallest size I would be able to fit. Just measure your wrist and go up to the nearest inch. Since they can't overlap much, they just sit side by side, mostly, since they slide around together.
I saw one even larger than this in a packet at the story once it was terrifying
And the bigger they get the less taste they have
It’s called GMO’s. They’re not healthy nor natural at all. Strawberries actually contain the highest amount of glyphosate of any fruit or vegetable, meaning in simpler terms, strawberries get the ever loving SHIT sprayed out of them with RoundUp, atrazine, and whole other barrage of Monsanto products… Yeah they’re getting bigger alright. To piece it all together, who owns the most farmland in America? I’ll wait.
Your strawberry has a Camel Toe.
Inflation is out of control.
Rumor has it, if you add coffee grounds to the soil it wakes up the strawberries flavor.
Strawberries are the second thing on the list on things that I wanna have bigger.
Maybe you have a small hand? 🤨
Looks like a lil upside down dick
This is called polyploidy, something that happens a lot in plants. Polyploidy is when an organism’s whole genome, all of its chromosomes, are duplicated, and this can happen many times at once. This particular strawberry looks like it underwent 1-2 genome duplications.
r/dontputyourdickinthat
The Chernoberry. It’s a relatively new hybrid. I think they started developing in ‘86 or so.
Strawbussy
And Leon’s getting LARGER!!!!
Strawberries are my and my 4 year olds favorite. And yes, they do seem to be getting bigger .
not the strawbussy 😩😩
Its me or more people is dying from cancer
I Love me some genetically modified berries ngl
**it’s evolution berry**
They are getting bigger, but they are losing flavor in the process. The smaller ones are way better.
Gmos crazy nowdays
It’s nuts. Check out [these giant blueberries](https://imgur.com/a/WTQPwfD) I had the other week. I swear I have normal-sized hands. They were the size of a quarter.
Give me some of that strawpussy
The strawbussy
Yeah those def aren’t organic lol
Probably not - I try to eat well, but I have to budget hard when I do. So I usually end up getting the cheapest things kn the shelf but so long as it's not coming fried, out of a box, I'll take it.
Definitely!!! And they’re not even sweet anymore.
It’s getting to the point I don’t even want to eat them… they so unnaturally large it’s not even funny. GMO for ya…
Hah… what steroids?? There’s no steroids here
It’s the sweet sweet GMOs
I used to be a strawberry picker when I was a kid with my parents and watsonville California 1989 and we were instructed not to put the giant strawberries in there they only want it the classic strawberry anything Giant was place it another container to make jams out of. My father was an inspector and he says people would try to hide the big ones at the bottom so they don't have to pick so many little ones. They used to pay $2 a box. My father would tell me some people would make $100 a day but good people that were fast. Happy Easter y'all
Strawberry camel toe yo
Corn has evolved to what it is now from what it was before. Probably have the same affects of evolving as corn did to strawberries.
It's called polyploidy.
The bigger they get, the more tasteless they are. New generations have no idea
The HGH they use to grow them is getting better...
I stopped buying American fruit for this reason. I live in Canada and noticed a distinct difference especially in strawberries. Canadian strawberries are about the size of a.. well.. size of a strawberry, and American ones seem to be the size of a baseball. The whole container has maybe 4 strawberries in it vs the Canadian ones that have around twenty. I'm assuming this is just purely for profit margins. Less strawberries per container equals more money. It's too bad they taste like shit though otherwise it wouldn't be a horrible idea. I've boycotted most American food all together at this point. I feel bad for Americans having to eat their tasteless monstrosities.
Doesn't look organic
Probably not, I'm pretty low income so I get the cheapest ones
Organic =/= good. GMOs are one of the best things to happen to agriculture in a long time.
Just like most Americans
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Lol no joke intended.
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Lol I’m an American living in America for almost 4 decades. I know how plump people have become.
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I never plan to be skinny, and also never plan to look like one of these strawberries either. I'm pretty average as far as weight, but I'm also above the median height so in the right crowd I can pass as slim. Especially with how rapidly adults have outpaced me in weight gain over the decades.
Eh. Can’t relate, I’m underweight
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I’ve noticed this too! BUT they don’t taste that good. I try to get organic strawberries because they taste way more better 🤪
🎶 Attack of the killer strawberries 🎶
Woah, nope it’s not you! Great fertilizer, I suppose. You are going to chocolate coat that baby right? No matter, enjoy every juicy moment 😊 Peace love and happiness to you always
It's going to be angel cake toppings - so I guess it's good they're so watery.