{"id":14810,"date":"2021-08-06T21:38:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T20:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=14810"},"modified":"2021-08-12T21:50:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T20:50:14","slug":"daily_2392_-_store-bought_cherries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2021\/08\/06\/daily_2392_-_store-bought_cherries\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2392 &#8211; store-bought cherries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2392_cherries.jpg\" class=\"x6y6\" \/><br \/>\nIf our own tree has a disappointing cherry harvest then I can just go to the store and buy some, can&#8217;t I? <\/p>\n<p>Yes, but nope. Our cherries have a rich, deep, sweet flavour. These store-bought ones were sort of sweet but mostly bland and watery.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even understand how I could expect them to be the same. I know that about every other kind of fruit and berry &#8211; you can&#8217;t just buy any old thing and expect it to taste good. Golden delicious apples will never be anything but blandly sweet. Belgian and Spanish strawberries will never compare to Swedish ones. Please, my Belgian friends, do not take this personally &#8211; that is just the way it is.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how much this is due to geography (the longer days and cooler nights here in the north are good for strawberries, from what I understand) and how much is simple selection. If you&#8217;re going to transport your berries all the way from Belgium to here, you would naturally prioritize a firm texture over juiciness and flavour. So perhaps we here in Sweden just get the firmest but least flavourful of Belgian strawberries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If our own tree has a disappointing cherry harvest then I can just go to the store and buy some, can&#8217;t I? Yes, but nope. Our cherries have a rich, deep, sweet flavour. These store-bought ones were sort of sweet but mostly bland and watery. I don&#8217;t even understand how I could expect them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,745,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-food_and_cooking","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14812,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14810\/revisions\/14812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}