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I just inspect them before they go in the container. Not sure why I would bring them to the store though.
Being I normal Lemmy user I automatically presumed the post was talking about raspberry pis. I was confused.
let’s not forget about their feature of the bonus 300% to mould speed growth if you as much as think about washing them
We had a supermarket like that across from our old place. Guess what: all the locals went to the green grocer for fruit and veg.
My favorite feature of raspberries is how they taste like shit unless you find them ripe on the bush in the wild, when they are legit one of the ten best things you’ll taste in your life.
I have wild raspberries growing all over my yard. I have had to cut them back to prevent them from literally taking over the yard. I wouldn’t be able to open my door if I didn’t cut them back.
But they are literally little nuclear flavor bombs in your mouth. Commercial raspberries are large and totally lacking in flavor and are tasteless in comparison.
The biggest problem with wild raspberries is it takes soooo many of them to make a quart of raspberry syrup or even to freeze a pint’s worth. But damn, they taste so good when you just stand there and pick and eat them with the fresh dew on them.
One of my favorite memories is standing on the hillside in my yard with a cup of hot tea and eating wild raspberries together with a deer for maybe 20 minutes one morning. The both of us just being together and enjoying the early sun and dining on nature’s finest.
Best raspberry experiences I’ve had were in my backyard or on hiking trails.
These guys have kind of ruined all the wild raspberries around me https://extension.umn.edu/yard-and-garden-insects/spotted-wing-drosophila
What happens if you eat their eggs/babies? Is it fine and only gross to think about?
As far as I know it’s safe to eat the larvae when they’re in the berries, but it sets off my OCD knowing they’re there
Sorry guys
They came here about 15 years ago and now all our wild blackberries have them.
It’s fine as long as you wash and freeze the berries immediately after you get home. Else you get larvae.
Oh no, that sucks. I was up there in northern Wisconsin about 15 to 20 years ago. Sometimes I would see bugs on berries, but not often.
It’s all fun and games until you get raspberries popping up all over your yard. These fuckers have managed to travel over 10 feet to different garden plots somehow.
Yep. I mow them off to keep them confined to certain areas. But they spread worse than thistles.
the somehow is bird poop. birds eat them and poop out the seeds, allowing them to be spread anywhere the bird goes. if you have some birds that frequent your garden you can blame them. also enjoy the raspberries :3
Holy shit why didn’t I realize this.
Also, those little shots!
Im eventually going to carve out a spot for raspberries. I imagine you have to weed the area often so it doesnt spread where you dont want it to.
Birds will eat them and poop out the seeds. You cannot contain brambles.
When it grows in lawn or other movable areas you can just mow it down. But if it gets to other plots, yeah you gotta pull em.
It’s kinda like mint? By not nearly as prevalent.
I’ve only been to places like the pnw when the berries are ripe a few times in my life. I’ve always wanted to go for like a month and just live off the berries that just grow everywhere. That’s such a unusual thing for me to see and its amazing.
Go during blackberry season and it doesn’t matter where you are wilderness, city, whatever, and you’ll have your fill and then some. Moved to Sweden and I saw blackberries for sale and I was so shocked I shit myself right there in the store. They’re an invasive weed that happens to be edible in Seattle people spend good money to get rid of them, and here it costs good money to get them
I grew up in the desert Southwest, where I never saw berries. Maybe there are some in the mountains. I don’t know. I moved up to the great Lakes area and there are a ton growing wild. I lived in this one house that bordered a forest in the back and they were just so many raspberries. We just walk out and snack on them. My friend said they were highbush and little bush, blueberries, but I’ve never learned to identify those.Also, walking around the south shore of Lake Superior, there are amazing berries called thimbleberries. A thimbleberry is like a raspberry, in that it’s made out of a bunch of little dots too, but each blib is smaller. It’s so cool that you can just walk around in the woods and find a complimentary snack.
Which desert do you mean? the Atacama desert?
Hmm, no. I mean the southwestern US. Sorry I wasn’t clear on that.
I’m nomadic but mainly stay in the rockies. There are strawberries in higher altitudes like >9k ft, but always tiny and grazed by the deer and other wild life. But I’ve been to the PNW when there are ripe blueberries, reneir(?) white cherries, blackberries, raspberries, every one of those types, then others like huckleberry I think, different style fruiting with round red berries. There’s just food everywhere and it blows my mind. If I lived in a place like that I could forage a years worth of berry jam just on a daily stroll through the woods.
Just fyi, it’s Rainier, like the mountain. And the neat thing about spelling Mount Rainier, (and also the cherries) is that it’s spelled exactly like “more rainy, having more rain” which is a pretty good description except for winter when it should be Mount Snowier.
Lol, yeah I could’ve just looked it up but that shows me. I’m not from there. I love those cherries, I ate like 10lbs because they won’t let you into Canada with them. The border guards were like yeah I get it at first but then it probably got to a concerning level.
They really dont keep well,but they are easy to grow.
In fact, they are very hard to kill.
You’re not kidding. They spread all over, too. My dad planted a few raspberry bushes in the yard when I was a kid, and soon enough they spread all along one side of the house. They grew so many berries that we could never keep up, so new plants kept popping up from the fruit that dropped.
If anyone needs raspberries or blackberries I have about a billion tons ready to go soon… Bring buckets.
My store has them in plastic containers you can rattle around and see most of them. Hopefully “iamstarvingaf” just means they’re always hungry, and not a poor person spending their food money on fucking raspberries.
Employees go through the canisters and pick out the obviously moldy ones. They’re trying to work fast, though, so they can miss some that aren’t obvious. The decay can also get much, much worse just in the time the product sits on the shelves, depending on how good the refrigeration in that exact spot is.
Anyway, open them up and examine before purchase. The employees will not mind, it’s what they’d do too.
edit: Assuming there’s no sticker. If they’re sealed with a sticker then I wouldn’t break it.
Given that people were licking ice cream a couple years ago, I’m not sure people would be OK with things being opened up in the store.
Yeah, that’s … unfortunate. Can always just ask one of them if it’s cool.
I still feel like I’m getting judged just for checking for broken eggs in a carton
I’ve always been cursed with bad strawberry selection. Other people picked strawberries from the same grocery stores that turned out great, but mine were always rotten when I went to eat them.
Anyway, turns out strawberries don’t last for several days. You pretty much have to eat them same day. Everyone else knew this but me, who would open them up four days later.
As long as you keep them in an airtight container in the fridge, they should last a few days. Assuming there isn’t already a mouldy one in the pack when you buy it, which seems to be a regular occurrence for me.
I open the pack and shuffle them around. I went through about 10 packs of strawberries yesterday… all were fucked and still being sold.
I bought none. next time, I’m throwing the bad crap to the side, and filling a thing with strawberries from multiple packs.
I’m done being nice in grocery stores…
They’re super low maintenance to grow. Plant them in open dirt, not one of those strawberry pots, and they will reproduce themselves by sending out above ground runners. And they taste better.
Super easy IF you have the right climate. IF.
And a yard
Most kinds of berries will grow in a pot, if you have a balcony and the right weather. I have mildew problems with my strawberries but my blueberry bush makes enough for one pie one day and a little snacky bite on a lot of other days.
What climate will they not grow in besides arctic zones?
They grow pretty far up north in Canada.
Things melt faster now. You can lose a pint of berries overnight. Plant your own. We’re on 75 strawberry plants with 30 more fridged for next year. Recommend Hoods. They’re the strawberriest of strawberries. Small, but punchy with flavor. Low maintenance. They spread like weeds.
Raspberries are weeds. You can plant them in a giant pot or raised bed and prune them.
I’ve given up on garlic, as another example, planting a raised bed of the stuff instead. That stuff used to be good for a couple weeks. Now, it disintegrates in days.
This is just another way to steal our money. Selling us the trash produce they used to throw out.
I unexpectedly happen to have a raspberry shrub. Tastiest raspberry ever, no work other than picking and pruning (once a year, super easy).
Damn where are you buying raspberries? My local grocery store has two of the little boxes for $4
At least one brand sells them in big clear flat trays so you can see both layers and inspect for mold. But then a lot of folks also bring them home and make the mistake of washing them, which is a guaranteed way to get them to mold in 1-2 days.
It’s not guaranteed if you wash them with a bit of vinegar in the water. That little trick genuinely does make a lot of fruits last much longer.
You could just… wash them right before serving them. Why would you wash them way before?
People do it for convenience. It doesn’t seem to bother grapes when you wash the whole bunch together and keep them in the refrigerator.
Some produce is just hard to sell supermarket style 🤷♂️ we get raspberries delivered daily at work and we do indeed have to turn and burn a fair portion of them due to mold or just being a mushy mess. We do blackberries too but we get those frozen and just turn them in to a sauce which is suuuuper tasty stuff
Was about to say: raspberries freeze really well. It’s a bit tricky to thaw them without damage, and they don’t taste or look as good as fresh ones from the bush, but the little plastic containers at the supermarket are the worst.
