Blueberry flavored tastes better than real blueberries

[zCypher]

Have to agree. I was hiking one day and accidentally discovered a raspberry grove. I didn't get to finish my hike because I went back to my house to get some containers. The grove kept on going and going, I had no idea how huge it was. It took me hours to pick them all and ended up with about 10 POUNDS of raspberries. I was giving away raspberries, canned raspberry preserves, made raspberry icecream and macerated a bunch of raspberries in 100 proof vodka in a huge container. Maybe I went a little overboard

lol, that's awesome!

 

[KillerCharlie]

75% of the time store blueberries suck. Find a farm where you can pick them yourself - they're usually cheap (<$2/lb)

My mom knows about 6-7 wild blueberry patches and gets enough for unlimited frozen blueberries and jam all year.

 

[sandorski]

Go with wild instead of farmed. Smaller, but have way more punch.

Frozen aren't necessarily evil, either.

Yup.

 

[MongGrel]

Wild Black Raspberries were always my favorite in that department, one of my aunts used to have a very large patch we'd hit with many people and 5 gallon buckets every year and everyone would freeze em and use for cobbler and stuff till the next year.

 

[kt]

Wild blueberries are delicious. Store bought ones, not so much.

 

[sandorski]

Wild blueberries are delicious. Store bought ones, not so much.

I've been buying some frozen blueberries that are very close to Wild. Don't recall the brandname though.

 

[JEDI]

Wild blueberries are delicious. Store bought ones, not so much.

why aren't store bought ones as tasty??
a natural blueberry isn't a natural blueberry

 

[rpanic]

why aren't store bought ones as tasty??
a natural blueberry isn't a natural blueberry

I'm thinking the same reason other things don't taste as good. They pick them before they are ripe, and maybe they water and fertilize them more.

 

[sandorski]

I'm thinking the same reason other things don't taste as good. They pick them before they are ripe, and maybe they water and fertilize them more.

Different breeding/variety would play into it.

 

[Jeeebus]

Fresh is awesome. We're near the end of a 2 month mango gorging. It makes me weep to think of the shitty south American mangoes that are picked immature, irradiated, and then imported flavorless for the masses. Same goes for the many other varieties we grow.

 

[NutBucket]

Frozen typically tastes better because they ripen on the bush as they don't need to be shipped to the consumer.