The strawberry thing is varieties of strawberries that look big, red, and beautiful on store shelves but have almost no flavour. Also they ship well.
They are dominant with California growers, not sure about other states.
It's one of the things I tease California about. People from there just assume strawberries have no flavour. Steve Sailer is a Californian and usually has interesting observations, but once he talked about how strawberries are a flavourless decorative fruit.
California popularized adding strawberries to salads, because they think they are basically a vegetable.
Beef and Chicken have been having domestic production problems in the US. There were very aggressive chicken culling during the Biden admin against bird flu. Beef producers took big hits during covid. Supply chain disruptions kept feed prices high. I suspect that some of the corporate consolidation and regulatory changes haven't helped. The US beef herd has been declining for years and it's currently the smallest since the 1970s, in the face of a much larger population. Obviously imports have offset a lot of that.
I'm conspiracy minded and paranoid, so I think there's an alliance of Big Ag and vegans in the USDA working to wipe out small producers and make meat more expensive. But no, I can't prove that.
Anyways I think that in the face of higher prices stores have been putting lower quality meat on the shelves.
Potato prices for farmers are way down, so I'm not sure why quality would be dropping there.
It could also be something happening during transport. Truck drivers setting the trailer temp to be too high or too low for some reason. Perhaps letting it get too warm then dropping it near freezing right before delivery so it's cold enough when it's unloaded.
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The strawberry thing is varieties of strawberries that look big, red, and beautiful on store shelves but have almost no flavour. Also they ship well.
They are dominant with California growers, not sure about other states.
It's one of the things I tease California about. People from there just assume strawberries have no flavour. Steve Sailer is a Californian and usually has interesting observations, but once he talked about how strawberries are a flavourless decorative fruit.
California popularized adding strawberries to salads, because they think they are basically a vegetable.
Beef and Chicken have been having domestic production problems in the US. There were very aggressive chicken culling during the Biden admin against bird flu. Beef producers took big hits during covid. Supply chain disruptions kept feed prices high. I suspect that some of the corporate consolidation and regulatory changes haven't helped. The US beef herd has been declining for years and it's currently the smallest since the 1970s, in the face of a much larger population. Obviously imports have offset a lot of that.
I'm conspiracy minded and paranoid, so I think there's an alliance of Big Ag and vegans in the USDA working to wipe out small producers and make meat more expensive. But no, I can't prove that.
Anyways I think that in the face of higher prices stores have been putting lower quality meat on the shelves.
Potato prices for farmers are way down, so I'm not sure why quality would be dropping there.
It could also be something happening during transport. Truck drivers setting the trailer temp to be too high or too low for some reason. Perhaps letting it get too warm then dropping it near freezing right before delivery so it's cold enough when it's unloaded.
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