These are kind of an in thing in East Asia. Are they big in the States? White strawberries:
Like most of the produce sold in my apartment's basement grocery, these strawberries were a bit lackluster. Almost all of the taste was concentrated in the very tips of each fruit. Eating my way toward the back proved to be a bland, watery, fibrous experience. Nothing to write home about. "Sad," as Donald Trump would doubtless say.
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Are they expensive? I rarely see red strawberries in the supermarket, and when I do, they are way too expensive. A box the size of the one in your picture would be around five bucks. No thanks!
ReplyDeleteI'd never even heard of white strawberries. They just look unripe to me.
^I'm with John here. I think this is just a con. They had a bunch of unripe strawberries that got harvested by accident and they decided to market them as "snow white" strawberries. Reminds me very much of the Korean trickster tale of the "vinegared red bean porridge." The trickster comes across a woman in the market with a huge amount of red bean porridge that's gone bad (sometimes he himself made too much and it went bad), so he markets it to the country rubes as a delicacy known as "vinegared red bean porridge." Convince someone that something is a delicacy and they'll eat it no matter how disappointing it might actually be.
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