Topic: Price of Strawberries Doubles

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

Auckland weather is exactly the same at the moment Darkling.

Totally changeable ... every 5 minutes or so.

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.

Blueberries!!!

Sparkle: Dessert? Pancakes? Blueberries? Syrup?

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.

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.

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.

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.