Very bad strawberries

by Sarah J. Gim, Posted May 3rd 2006 @ 10:35PM

Last week's San Francisco Chronicle Food and Dining section had a short piece on the sad state of produce in the Bay area with the weeks upon weeks of rain they had during March and April. I didn't pay much attention for a couple of reasons. It seemed that it only applied to northern California, and additionally, I was so busy with work that I hadn't gone to the market to stock up on ingredients as I wasn't planning on cooking or eating at home.

However, I became painfully aware of the sparse and poor quality of produce this morning when a selection of fruit that was offered to me for breakfast included the most horrendous looking strawberries I have ever seen. First of all, I was appalled that they even had the, uh, balls, to serve them to the public. But worse yet was the actual state of the berries. Some of them were tiny, some of them dispropotionately enormous, many of them badly mis-shapen. Some of the strawberries were a pathetic pale pink and others were a gross dark brown. The worst of it was that they looked like they were rotting.

No strawberries for Spring, but hopefully we'll have some for summer.

Filed Under: Farming, Business, Ingredients
Tags: america, berries, breakfast, fruit, fruits, fruits and vegetables, produce, strawberries, west coast