Re:The Delicious Origins of the Domesticated Blueberry (2016)
by psd1 on Thursday May 19, 2022 @12:52PM
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I've never seen blueberries growing over here in the UK, but you are absolutely right about strawberries. The best are the tiny alpine varieties with fruit smaller than a pinky nail. I would rather have three of those gems than a punnet of greenhouse giants
It's great that a lot of work went into breeding and hybridizing these fruits so they ship well so city dwellers can buy them, and they look great so you're enticed to pick up packages of them at the supermarket, but they're really a shadow of their origins. Once you've tried the original, it's hard to go back.
I say this as someone with a few dozen highbush blueberry (and domestic strawberry) plants in my garden because finding and picking the wild kind is work.