[kall]

That's right.

Because of the hail the other day, the price of strawberries has gone from (average) $2.50 a punnet to $5.00 a punnet.

Evidently soft fruit don't enjoy being pummeled with frozen raindrops.

[Darkling]

That's the excuse anyway.

Even if they were already picked and loaded onto the backs of rather large and hail-proof lorries I can't see the distributors and retailers missing the chance to make a quick profit.

Odds are that the growers will not see any of the extra money you paid and they will probably even take a loss if there was any actual strawberry pummeling in the fields.

[Penny]

They always double the price round Chrsitmas anyway, its sad sad sad, I love strawberries.

[Sparklechick]

it's the same with the cherries too.

I'm not a huge fan of cherries but I do like to have at least a couple of fresh cherries over the Christmas period.

LURVE strawbellies though ... this darned weather! I blame it on all the Britz who have moved to NZ lately ... they've brought their stinking weather with them!

[Darkling]

What you have to understand about Brittish weather is that it is not purely stinking.
It's "changable"
i.e. it's liable to change at a moment's notice.

You can forget forcasts. The bloody thing does what it wants, when it wants.

[Sparklechick]

Auckland weather is exactly the same at the moment Darkling.

Totally changeable ... every 5 minutes or so.

[Bluey and Aquila]

I went and got all my veges for xmas day at 7am this morning.

Didnt get cherries but I did pay $4 for blueberries and the container is so small I could tip all the blueberries in my hand and eat in one mouthfull.

lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, plums, strawberries, fresh peas, sprouts, 2x kiwifruit, 2x apples, new potatoes, and a peice of watermelon. $62 bloody dollars.

Oh and raspberries were $4 a punnet and they were almost juice.

[kall]

Blueberries!!!

Sparkle: Dessert? Pancakes? Blueberries? Syrup?

[Sparklechick]

We'll check them out when we go shopping tonight Kall ... could visit that Vege shop on Dominion Rd before we hit Foodtown to see if they've got them cheaper.

[Penny]

At this popular place where strawberries are really good, someone was saying at work, they are rashsioning people. 2 punnets each, and theres like a queue and everything.

[Bluey and Aquila]

Originally Posted by kall

Blueberries!!!

Sparkle: Dessert? Pancakes? Blueberries? Syrup?

Yumm I was going to be using mine in a apple and blueberry crumble but I think I might use the frozen ones for the crumble.

[Darkling]

There's an apple tree in my garden. There used to be a plum tree also until it got rather singed by too close a bonfire and never bore fruit again.

All around the back of the hill behind my house there grow wild blackberry bushes and even better ones just 15-20 minute walk along the canal bank.

Come summer there's no short supply of free fruit for pies, tarts, crumbles, etc.