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Why are blackberries bought from a shop always tasteless?


When I see them in shops they always seem freakishly long as well, always makes me wonder what shit they put on them because the ones you see growing wild look completely different.
 
double maxim said:
When I see them in shops they always seem freakishly long as well, always makes me wonder what shit they put on them because the ones you see growing wild look completely different.
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The ones grown commercially will be completely different breed/type wont they? Or at least some scientist will have messed around with them so they stay 'fresher' for longer which reduces flavour and changes the fruit. Thing is if you've only ever ate from these types you never know the difference, it'll be the same with all fruit and veg thats commercially grown now sadly.
 
Our Blackberry cane in our garden is huge so I'm looking forward to a good crop off that.
The Blackcurrant on the other hand, has done jack all so far this year.
 
Keawyeds said:
Our Blackberry cane in our garden is huge so I'm looking forward to a good crop off that.
The Blackcurrant on the other hand, has done jack all so far this year.
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Did you prune them? People more knowledgeable than me will know for sure but certain soft fruits only fruit on two year old canes, so the old canes need to be pruned back to encourage new ones to come through for fruiting later.

As I said, this isn’t gospel for your particular plants but worth checking with a reliable source.
 
MackemBob said:
Did you prune them? People more knowledgeable than me will know for sure but certain soft fruits only fruit on two year old canes, so the old canes need to be pruned back to encourage new ones to come through for fruiting later.

As I said, this isn’t gospel for your particular plants but worth checking with a reliable source.
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Hacked it right back this year I believe.
If we get nothing from it this summer, we'll cut it right back again and it can have one more try before I get cross and bin it.
 
Georgewhitt said:
As soon as they are picked, the sugar begins to turn into starch, therefore lessening the sweetness. Same with corn on the cob. Fresh stuff in supermarkets is rank cos it's days old, but fresh from the plant it is amazing.
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Frozen corn on the cob tastes nice, once it's cooked of course. 😂
 
Fruit and berries are now grown to look good on a supermarket shelf. Most soft fruits are bred with skins like leather so they don't bruise, can you remember when you could pull the centre out of a strawberry and just leave a juicy fruit. Now you have to cut them in half or oik them out with a spoon. Pomegranates anarl, they used to be my favourite fruit but its got to be 25 years since I had one that doesn't taste like bitter cardboard. No wonder kids now won't eat fruit and berries, they're rank. When I was a kid we could buy bruised fruit from our local fruiterers and it was lush, what you didn't eat you could splatter all over your mates back. :D
 
We used to speak them for a couple of hours to plump them up. Supermarkets add water to everything except the empty jars they sell that cost more than ones with product in. So I'm surmising they do that to increase the weight.
 
DBStar said:
We used to speak them for a couple of hours to plump them up. Supermarkets add water to everything except the empty jars they sell that cost more than ones with product in. So I'm surmising they do that to increase the weight.
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You used to what?
 
Shows how pampered / lazy we have become that a domestic berry that can be picked for free (admittedly not all year) largely gets ignored and folk pay £12 a kilo in Sainsbury’s which is more expensive than meat!
 
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