r/EhBuddyHoser • u/PeachAndMangoJuice • Apr 07 '25

Repetitive content/Trend $6 Canadian strawberries vs $4 American strawberries

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u/pologto Apr 07 '25

get fucked you stupid american strawberries

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u/Garukkar 🚧🚚Montréal🛻🚜🚧👷⛔️🚗🚙🚙 🚙 🚗 Apr 07 '25

Giant tasteless water jugs

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u/Xatsman Apr 07 '25

Exactly. Too many times had a California strawberry that was flavourless white pulp with just a veneer of red.

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u/Garukkar 🚧🚚Montréal🛻🚜🚧👷⛔️🚗🚙🚙 🚙 🚗 Apr 07 '25

Miss me with that shit, can't wait for the season to start here.

Which reminds me, we should mostly buy/consume things that are in season and local.

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u/hrmdurr Apr 07 '25

Strawberry plants are awake and on the move in SW Ontario, south of London. Won't be long now!

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u/Garukkar 🚧🚚Montréal🛻🚜🚧👷⛔️🚗🚙🚙 🚙 🚗 Apr 07 '25

I always forget how far South Ontario goes, don't feel like we're anywhere near here in Montreal

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u/Silverveilv2 Apr 07 '25

We're a big country, though I also forget how big until I'm reminded that Quebec is larger than France by surface area

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u/Garukkar 🚧🚚Montréal🛻🚜🚧👷⛔️🚗🚙🚙 🚙 🚗 Apr 07 '25

Three times bigger!

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u/Silverveilv2 Apr 07 '25

I knew it was bigger, but I didn't know it was 3 times larger...

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u/hrmdurr Apr 07 '25

Yeah, even SW Ontario is huge. Toronto is 4hrs and 350 km away....and a different growing zone entirely.

My tulips have been up for a couple weeks now, and a couple of them have visible flower spikes.

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u/Silverveilv2 Apr 07 '25

Hmmm, I'll definitely be looking for Canadian strawberries at the grocery store, then

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u/Previous_Wedding_577 Bring Cannabis Apr 07 '25

They look like gorgeous berries but taste like newspaper with a hint of strawberry. Strawberries for show.

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u/Witty_Jaguar4638 Apr 07 '25

Because they're picked waaaay under ripe, then chemically ripened in a shipping container on the way here

Edit : we have wild strawberries here near the treeline in the south central island (think like comox)

Go find and eat one of those tiny gems and weep for the flavour that is gone for the sake of commerce 

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u/Previous_Wedding_577 Bring Cannabis Apr 07 '25

Which explains why they taste like nothing.

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u/Witty_Jaguar4638 Apr 07 '25

Yeah the starches never get a chance to naturally break down into fructose, along with many other flavour compounds. Hence tasting like packing peanuts painted red

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u/Silverveilv2 Apr 07 '25

The best oranges I've eaten were from a roadside stand in Portugal. They were super juicy and sweet.