Mmmmm--December in Japan brings the strawberries (grown in greenhouses, so as not to compete with the summer melons...). Sweeter, more perfect berries are simply not to be found...
...hand-picked and gently placed all the same direction in the package--for the top of the Christmas cake, or just to eat dipped in sweetened condensed milk.
But when was the last time you paid $6.80 for 11 strawberries?
Grrrrr... not today!
Yikes. Though prices here in Georgia aren't *too* much lower than that...
ReplyDeleteThis isn't the time to mention that I had a fresh-cream strawberry trifle last night then...?
ReplyDeleteOkay, I won't. *smugness*
@Summer--yikes is right! And at the current exchange rate, those strawberries would be more like $7 and something (since the yen is really strong against the dollar right now)...
ReplyDelete@Daz--ooohhhh. (pooching out cheeks)...
i live in MN so i'm used to cheap milk and expensive fruit.
ReplyDeleteman those strawberries look good
Falen--you're in Minnesnowta? ;-)) Ahh--nice childhood memories from the Boundary Waters... (drifts off....)
ReplyDeleteYou guys get expensive fruit up there? Just in the winter, or all year round? I can see how milk would be cheap, right next to Wisconsin. And, yeah, those strawberries look good to me, too--but not at Y680 (my husband would have a cow...although, come to think of it, then we'd have cheap milk, too...;-))
Those strawberries make my OCD happy.
ReplyDeleteI grow my own strawberries from spring to fall on my patio, and I go without during the winter. They're $5 @ the grocery right now. :(
Aha--that's how you have lovely pictures of strawberry leaves turned red:-)) I sometimes grow things on the porch, too--how many strawberries do you usually get growing them on the porch? (I figure if I tried it, I'd get about three berries...not quite worth the effort!)
ReplyDeleteMy one plants nets me about five strawberries a week. I plan to add at least two more next spring. It was an experiments that worked surprisingly well.
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