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On 2025-03-19 1:55 p.m., Ed P wrote:
> On 3/19/2025 2:05 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:10:39 +0000, Ed P wrote:
>>
>>> Every couple of weeks I make a few batches of blueberry pancakes.  The
>>> store almost always has blueberries and the source varies throughout the
>>> year.  Maine and Michigan are the best, Florida and Mexico are good,
>>> Peru gets us through the winter.
>>>
>>> Past couple of weeks, the berries did not look great for the price so,
>>> why not try frozen?  I did this morning.
>>>
>>> They were a little bigger, the size is very consistent, clean, ready to
>>> use.  The texture though, not as good as they look.  I guess the
>>> freezing breaks down the inner parts and it lacks density.  They would
>>> look good in a fruit salad, but lack flavor and texture for eating.
>>> Nope, won't use frozen again.
>>>
>>>
>> Evidently, every blueberry I've ever eaten have either
>> been frozen or are subpar, tasteless blue orbs and
>> blueberry jam is just gloopy blue sugar.  Even frozen
>> strawberries and strawberry jam taste like strawberries.
>>
>> -- 
> The flavor is not as intense as a good strawberry.  I mentioned Maine 
> and Michigan, Dave mentioned some others.  One reason they are better is 
> the ratio of flavor to size.  Those berries are smaller than the ones in 
> the store recently but the amount of flavor is the same.  You get the 
> same from one the size of a peas as the once the size of a golf ball.
> 
> I don't buy strawberries here very often.  They look like a nice size 
> but they are picked before ripening.  They do not ripen once picked.
> 
> I do buy Trappist strawberry preserves.  Always have some in the house 
> for the past 20 years or so. Inf act, just had a few crackers about an 
> hour ago.

I freeze 30-35lbs of BC blueberries every year and have them every 
morning on my cereal.
The flavour and texture are OK for cultivated fruit. I tried some
frozen ones from the supermarket ONCE and they were awful!! Mealy
texture and so-so flavour.