Typical NA strawberries are GMO and suck though
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Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Imagine buying strawberries and not eating them all right away
Lulzagna@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 2 months ago
If it’s GMO and still suck, they need to GMO harder.
robotica@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Or just not GMO at all, it depends on what type of strawberries exist in the world already. I have noticed that the more “marketable” strawberries look, the less sweet and more acidic they taste, unlike strawberries that are grown by your grandma, which look like ass sometimes, but man, are they tasty! Can’t say about pesticides and stuff like that, or if they even are GMO, and also I live in Europe.
Lulzagna@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Come to Canada and eat any of our supermarket strawberries, they’re disgusting.
One of my Italian tour guides last year was so confused when I explained how our produce is nothing like what they have there. Strawberries are sour, not juicy, and white inside.
We do have some good local strawberries during the summer. This is why, to us, GMO is a bad thing
Lulzagna@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Genuine question, where are you from?
Where I’m from GMO is used to prevent ripening and damage during transportation which results in weak tasting and tough produce that can survive long distance transportation.
GMO has negative effects too, it’s ignorant to think otherwise.
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nearly all produce is GMO and has been for centuries. Do you really want to go back to the days of 17th-century watermelon?
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Selective breeding and GMO are completely different.
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Pretty much everything g we eat is “GMO” because that’s how agriculture works, we selectively grow the most productive plants
Lulzagna@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is true. I should have specified that geographically GMO is a bad thing here because it’s typically associated with creating hard tasteless produce that can survive long haul transportation
Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You mean to say it’s stigmatized as a bad thing, and I’d accept that.
There’s an apple called Cosmic Crisp that has to be the worst thing I’ve seen come from the Honeycrisp variant of apple. Genuinely just awful taste and texture, like it’s got sand in it.
That being said, these are only a problem at supermarkets. Farmers markets are hard carries and don’t typically have the ‘grown for shelf life’ produce you see at your typical Walmart.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No.
[GMOs are organisms (apart from human beings) whose genetic material has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally by mating and/or natural recombination.](…europa.eu/…/genetically-modified-organisms-gmo.h…
cheddar@programming.dev 2 months ago
Then don’t… buy them?
Leg@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Find a better term than GMO to describe what makes food suck. You might as well be saying that science makes food suck. Like…yeah, sure, sometimes. But that’s incredibly vague and accomplishes nothing for you.
Lulzagna@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, it’s still GMO. My usage was vague, that’s on me.
Eiri@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I love to eat a bowl of them for breakfast. But sometimes I have trouble waking up and don’t have time for them. Then I reach the weekend, looking forward to finally eating them… And half of them have spoiled. Damn it. I really wish they lasted longer.
Rinox@feddit.it 2 months ago
You could extract their flavor, fill it with added sugars, saturated fats, preservatives and food coloring
gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
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