Blueberries are getting too big!

I have been getting the jumbo blueberries the last week are so and they have been GREAT! Tart and very favorable... most blueberries nowadays are bland and disgusting

Big Fruits scare me

Keep R2 away from the bear bar!

R1 are you having a sugar high?

Buy wild ones. They're smaller and sweeter.

OP, just be grateful it's just the blueberries, and not you!

They grow them near nuclear power plants.

I hate the big blueberries that are soft and mealy. I do love a crisp juicy blueberry.

Where can you get them R5? And how do you avoid the Fox Tapeworm?

I much prefer the bigger blueberries. They are more sweeter and more flavorful that regular blueberries.

They don't necessarily have to be jumbo berries, but as a general rule, the bigger and plumper berries have more flavor.

[quote]They are more sweeter and more flavorful t

I'll Oh, Dear myself here.

I truly sympathise with you, OP

They are called Frankenfoods. The taste and size are genetically changed. I prefer to stick with the originals.

The big ones also tend mealy quickly. ALDI blueberries can be surprisingly good.

R12 The mud pies in my village have gotten bigger too. Tomorrow we are attending a demonstration for climate change. Free peanuts.

[quote]Are all fruits getting bigger?

Yes, and vegetables, too.

Steroids + antibiotics + genetic modifications.

Get the regular-sized frozen packaged berries—they’re delicious, don’t spoil, aren’t overly sweet, help to cool down stuff like hot oatmeal, make great smoothies, and are like little round frozen treats with each bite. The smaller packaged frozen wild blues, too.

The growers are over fertilizing their crops. And when they get that big they have very little taste. I get about 4 gallons of berries from my bushes every season and they're plump, but not ready to pop. I also put Epson salt (to increase the sweetness) around my bushes every year along with a good 10-10-10 fertilizer.

Frozen blueberries are awful. They have tough skins and the insides are tasteless and mushy. I hate it when I buy so called fresh blueberries and I can tell they’ve been frozen. It destroys their texture.

Gasoline is under $3.00/gallon where I live. I know the Deplorables are gnashing their teeth in rage.

[quote] And how do you avoid the Fox Tapeworm?

"Avoid" it??? Whatever for?

High bush blueberries grow near my home and I pick them every summer. Free!

I’d like to take this opportunity to say that I hate Honey Crisp apples and resent their increasing market share.

That is all.

[quote]I hate Honey Crisp apples

Yeah. What's the big deal? I bought two. I ate one, and it was so cellulose-y, I threw the other one away. Apples have become as bad as tomatoes and peaches.

It has Nothing to do withFertilizer, it the VARIETY of blueberry bush.

Who is picking these giant blueberries? Machines?

R22, Maria Callas died from tapeworm infection?

I like blueberries but rarely buy them for whatever reason. I will get them when I'm dog sitting my sister's pup. She goes nuts for blueberries (and loves catching them in her mouth).

I blame the gays with their size fetish.

My dog loooooooves the big fat oversized blueberries.

When they're big like that, they're likely coming from Mexico and/or China and you all know what that means: poo-poo fertilizer. Seriously, unless they have a USDA Organic seal on the container, stay clear of them.

Poo poo IS organic.

Even organic berries are oversized and tasteless now, R32.

This is happening to grapes, too. Red and green, I've had some lately the size of a golf ball.

They taste fine, but they are HUGE.

The vast majority of produce you buy in a grocery store comes from outside the US. Much of it comes from Central America, and then there's all the stuff that comes from China. By the time it hits the shelves in the US it's already weeks old and much of it is already in the active rotting process, especially in the winter months. Best thing to do is to check any produce that has a high water content for areas that are softer than the rest of it before you buy it. Those items rot much faster than low water vegetables, like carrots, cabbage, broccoli & cauliflower. Cucumbers in grocery stores are the world's worst for being rotten on the shelves.

R36 That’s a lie. Sources please.

I think that there is a conspiracy to replace all Fuji apples with honeycrisp.

Dingleberries are getting too big!

I've noticed it too, OP. It's a fairly recent phenom. I'd say in the past 6 months.

I just worried about the Attack of the Killer Blueberry

Attack of the killer dingleberry

Contrary to R36, I'm not sure a lot of fresh produce comes from China except maybe for specialty stores like urban Asian markets. The U.S. keeps tariffs on many Chinese food products and the American consumer generally doesn't trust stuff from China, especially fresh food items. Also, it's just too far away to keep most things "fresh" without there being eventual news of them being chemically saturated etc.. I could be wrong and there could be more Chinese items in the produce section than I know so I'll have to check when I go to the store tomorrow.

Where blueberries come from (not China):

I'm in Georgia, USA, and we grow a shit ton of blueberries. People think we're peaches and peanuts but the blueberry crops are surpassing peaches all over the place.

R10 and R11 - inadequate self-shaming. There's also the "that".

OP - blueberries are not in season. Stop buying imported fruit, out of season, dimwit.

Something like this was done a couple of decades ago to jalapeños. They look like were crossed with something larger, bell peppers, I think, and Walmart suppliers now generally carry the larger jalapeños. They're not as hot an flavorful as the smaller ones, which are now harder to find.

Maybe the blueberries are being altered.

^^ They look like they were

I often buy frozen blueberries. I prefer the wild ones, but cultivated are okay to. The very best blueberries I have ever eaten we're from a pick your own orchard. They were sweet and exceptionally flavorful.

Blueberries are getting too expensive.

Bananas are too big

Too big for what, BPC?

Please forgive the speech to text errors in R50.

R38 Honey crisp are becoming more common because growers can make a higher profit. They are a more challenging variety to grow, compared to the others. These trees require extra care to prevent disease. The honey crisp apple has a thin skin which is easily damaged. Each apple picked has to have the stem snipped to prevent damage to the other apples. They are only worth growing if the grower can get a high price. If the price drops too low, growers will move on to grow another variety.

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The size of a ping-pong ball!

I buy organic blueberries from a brand called Hippies. They're normal, healthy blueberries unmodified by scientists. Delicious.

humble-bragging

I love Honeycrisp apples. I do peel all apples. The Envy apples were bad, this year. I still see Fuji apples in the stores. They're probably the most reliable apples.

I like Honey Crisp because they have a reliable taste.

I like the texture of Honeycrisp, as well. There's a snap to it.

My coworker likes Red Delicious. He has bad taste.

My blueberries are fine, but my blackberries are enormous.

Blueberries are not genetically modified or changed, stupid people in DL want to willfully misinform and inflame the ignorant masses. You are a cunting chaos actor.

In EUROPE we europeans are spared such frankenfoods, because we are all so europeany and superior.

The blueberries are pumped up with steroids. So what. Who cares?

I don’t like them. You can’t tell if there’s a bad spot and I always eat that one and it spoils the whole dish.

Franken Berry.

Honey crishp applesh.

Well, Big Agra turned sweet seeded watermelon into pink turnip.

Big Agra turned strawberries into red skinned turnips big enough to harvest by machines.

I just move on

I can still buy good watermelon on the summer.

I purchased raspberries. Washed them. Ate them. Saved a few for breakfast. The raspberries were covered in mold next morning!

My dog just threw up raspberries and blueberries. On my most precious carpet.

R73 did you buy them at Aldi or Lidl? Their fruit rots overnight.

Yes we are.

My favorite varietal of blueberries are Ivanhoes. They're tart but not sour, with a thick rubbery skin, big like grapes. Super flavorful and they dry like raisins. They're awesome. I used to pick them every summer, and now of course I'm allergic.

I always buy the biggest bananas. The bunch I bought today had two bananas over ten inches long. Yes, I was tempted; no, I didn't...

Raspberries are just very perishable and delicate.

R24/R25 The honeycrisps in the Pac NW are delicious but they seem to suck everywhere else.

Until this year, I'd never heard of "Lemonade Apples" until they suddenly appeared at my market. OMFG, so good. Very unique, sweet flavor. Cheaper than Honeycrisps, which are overrated, at $3.65 per piece.

Wild Blueberries have twice the amount of antioxidants as the bigger ones.

Cosmic Crisp apples are supposed to be good, but I haven't tried them yet.

Trader Joe's also raised prices. A quart of the blueberries is 4 dollars, s one hundred percent increase. Their stores are dirty and the products frequently recalled

Cosmic Crisps taste like wild hickory nuts.

R86, that sounds like a good thing. Maybe I'll buy some from Costco the next time I'm there. The Cosmic Crisps, I mean.

R86 = Euell Gibbons

Blueberry grown in Australia breaks record as world’s heaviest

A giant blueberry that tips the scales at a whopping 20.4 grams (0.71 ounces) officially entered the record books this week.

The fruit was picked on November 13 and the record for heaviest blueberry was confirmed this week, a spokesperson for Guinness World Records told CNN on Friday.

The record-breaking berry measured 39.31 millimeters (1.55 inches) across, roughly the same size as a table tennis ball. It was grown in Corindi, New South Wales, Australia, by staff at blueberry grower Costa Group.

No good will come of all this genetic tinkering with fruits and vegetables.

I haven’t seen Braeburns in a few years. Why farmers aren’t raising these most delicious apples in the world confounds me.

I think why growers have gravitated towards larger blueberries is the issue of spoilage. Fruit decays from the outside in through bruises and wounds that allow molds in. Larger individual fruits have less surface than a similar mass of smaller fruits, so are less likely to spoil as quickly. More surface area also speeds the loss of water and quality loss.

A blueberry wasn't meant to be the size of an orange.

Yea!

Only on DL would you find a thread on blueberries and porn sluts next to each other.

Yeah, Braeburn apples were really good. What happened.

R96 "Why can’t I find Braeburn Apples anymore?

In today’s fast-paced apple world this sweet-tart, spicy maverick may at long last be obsolete. Lacking the consistency of modern apples, and suffering from difficulties like Braeburn Browning Disorder due to higher internal carbon dioxide concentrations, enterprising breeders began looking for Braeburn descendants that could replace its parent (and be trademarked for profit of course). And so, the ungrateful children of the Braeburn: Envy, Jazz, Sweetie, and Kanzi are sweeping this trailblazing old-timer into oblivion, leaving no room on the grocery store shelf for the apple to whom they owe so much."

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[quote]She was a Tomboy. Assertive. And she had that fucking pail.

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