Oversupply of strawberries causes sharp decline in prices

I picked up 2 pounds for $4 up here in Seattle. I made a compote with contreau, lemon juice, lemon zest, and a bit of brown sugar. I pulled out the strawberries when they had just started to soften up then I strained out the liquid, which I reduced to a nice zesty strawberry syrup.

The grocery store also had angel food cake cups on sale, so I picked up a dozen of those. I just filled the cups with the strawberries, put on a dollop of whipped cream, and then drizzled the strawberry syrup on top. We had family over, so it was the perfect amount for dessert. Tres bien and pretty healthy too.

We had leftover strawberry syrup which is going to make frozen strawberry margaritas tonight.

 

THIS MAKES LONGHORNFAN JEALOUS!!!

 

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While I was at Kroger, a little old lady (80+) randomly came up to me and was super excited about the good deal on strawberries. She took me over and showed me the price, and continued to tell me how at her age living on a fixed income is hard to buy fresh fruit all the time, but these prices were too good to pass. I bought some just to shut her up, lol.

I know... cool story, bro.

 

Your post makes me want to eat strawberries. You have a knack for excellent visual description.

 

so that explains why there are tons of mexican dudes in SF standing on street corners hawking crates of strawberries.

 

Poor thing...she's really getting hurt by this. She's just giving it up for free...

Spoiler

 

You should do your version of Jamie Oliver and do a 'Feed the Starving People of Africa Strawberries Revolution".

You can ship them via cargo ship. It should take about two weeks to get there. I'm sure they'll love to eat moldy, rotten strawberries.

 

Chocolate covered strawberries
Belgian waffle topped with fresh strawberries
Strawberries with milk n cereal (Capn Crunch) it's the bomb combo.
Strawberries in protein shake
Strawberries in Milk shake
Strawberries in a smoothie
Strawberries in a salad
Strawberries just by themselves

Can never get sick of strawberries.

 

Do you like Strawberries? Well how about... RAWBERRIES

 

Freeze it and donate it to charity for a tax write-off...

 

You do know you can freeze them right?

It an example of waste in the US in general. I hope you can think about visiting a couple of these sites.

http://www.thp.org/
http://www.bread.org/
http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.204586/

The heifer one is cool.

 

Sorry to bump this thread again, but I saw 4 pound crates of strawberries last night at Costco for $5. Had to buy a few of those. We'll freeze some, eat some, and my wife will make strawberry jam with the rest.

 

Their a dollar a pound at Fiesta. I bought 5 pounds :grin:

 

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