For just a short period of time in the early spring, I'm able to buy (commercial) strawberries from Florida. I bought some last week at Trader Joe's, but today all of the strawberries at TJ's were from California, either Salinas or Watsonville, basically. So I left them on the shelf. On my (very short) walk back to the apartment, I stopped at my corner fruit stand guy, and he had these...
At half the price of Trader Joe's (i.e.: 2 for $4), and they looked fine (it's always caveat emptor with the corner fruit stand guy). So I bought 2 containers.
I find that the Florida strawberries are so much sweeter and more strawberry-flavored (which is why I left the berries on the shelf at Trader Joe's) than the California ones.
Obviously, I'm only referring to these commercial strawberries, not to farmer's market type berries, or Harry's, or any high-end fancy ones, which can run up to $10 and higher per pound. I'm wondering if that's anyone else's experience?
