The Unbelievable History of Strawberries
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- Опубліковано 2 тра 2022
- In this video, we take a look at the unbelievable story behind one of the world's favorite fruits - The strawberry.
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Sources and further reading
[1] Darrow, George M. "The Strawberry: History, Breeding, and Physiology." Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1966.
[2] Welsh, Martin. "Strawberries." National Vegetable Society. Archived by Wayback Machine. web.archive.org/web/200808022...
[3] Grubinger, Vern. "History of the Strawberry." The University of Vermont, 2012. www.uvm.edu/vtvegandberry/fac...
[4] "Strawberry: A Brief History." Integrated Pest Management, University of Missouri, 2012. ipm.missouri.edu/meg/2012/5/S...
[5] "Strawberry." Encyclopedia Britannica. www.britannica.com/plant/stra...
[6] Driscoll-Woodford, Heather. "Wimbledon's Strawberries and Cream Has Tudor Roots." BBC News, 23, June, 2010. news.bbc.co.uk/local/surrey/hi...
[7] Bilton, Sam. A Berry Old Tradition: The History of English Strawberries." EnglishHeritage.org, 29 June, 2017. www.english-heritage.org.uk/v...
[8] Bailey, L. H. “Whence Came the Cultivated Strawberry.” The American Naturalist, vol. 28, no. 328, 1894, pp. 293-306. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2451838.
[9] Geggel, Laura. "Why Are Bananas Berries, But Strawberries Aren't?" LiveScience, 12 Jan, 2017.
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[10] Hancock, James & Sjulin, T.M. & Lobos, Gustavo. (2008). Strawberries. 10.1007/978-1-4020-6907-9-13.
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1. I'd like to reiterate - The strawberry is not a berry only by scientific definition. In common use, which came first and is more important, it certainly is a berry, and it is not incorrect to call it one.
2. In the opinions of many, it seems I was wrong! Wild strawberries are considered much more flavorful than their modern domesticated counterparts.
3. If you'd like to know more about why strawberries are called "straw berries", check out this video: ua-cam.com/video/TfAetZRHCfI/v-deo.html
The culinary definition of a vegetable is anything you wouldn't put in a fruit salad; everything else is a fruit.
The word 'berry' is an Arabic word meaning wild... how could that be Anglo-saxon or Germanic?
@@ibrahimmohamed8601 Probably false cognates
@@ibrahimmohamed8601 The English word berry is derived from Old English berie meaning grape. The Arabic word barr, meaning open land, countryside or wild, was used in Moorish Spain to describe the area outside cities and comes into English, via Spanish, as barrio, meaning suburb or neighborhood.
This would blown my Botany teacher
When I was a child my mother gave me my own flower bed. IN it I planted strawberry plants out of one of those six pack starters from the local feed store. The berries weren't large like supermarket strawberries but a smaller variety. Every year there were more plants until the flower bed was completely full of strawberry plants. That was 40 years ago and that bed still has strawberry plants growing in it, providing a sweet treat to birds and humans alike.
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I love that you still enjoy your childhood flower bed- strawberries and let the birds have some as well!
Love it!
If the runners would have been continuously cut off instead of letting the plants self-propagate the berries would have grown larger, as the energy would have gone to the fruit instead of the runners
@@searchindex3438 imo I'd prefer a bunch of small berries vs a few large ones. It just makes it all the more tragic when that delicious berry you'd been going for turns out to be partially eaten on the back side
When I was a little kid, my family moved into a house whose entire back yard was carpeted with wild strawberries, and also had a raspberry briar. It was like having a candy store right outside. They seemed to be nearly endless in quantity, and were quite delicious.
Further, not far from the house, about 10 minutes walk, were huge patches of low bush blueberries. I hated picking them, but they were so so good.
Lucky
I spent some of my childhood in a village which also had something similar. Except they were black berries, and lots and lots of stinging nettles everywhere. We had to beat down a path using sticks to make a pretty cool secret passage around the village. We never got hungry playing, with the endless supply of berries along the way.
Probably not wild if you had raspberries, strawberries, and blueberries near to each other. Someone probably planted them.
Sounds like the country I grew up in
@@mediocreman2 The raspberries may have been planted but the strawberries were very very small, so definitely wild. The blueberries were in a clearing in a wooded area, and were also tiny, not the larger high bush kind.
In Oregon, they grow wild at the coast on sand dunes among the grasses and in the mountains. Mountain ones are hard to find.
Back in '55 a friend and I went to an unimproved part of a golf course in Detroit MI. No thoughts to water, so when we happened upon a huge wild strawberry patch fruiting, we ate them all, what flavor, but tiny.
In my childhood, Dad was big on native edibles. Our camping trips involved us learning the edibles around us and we'd gather salad for dinner. Among the faves was the wild strawberry. Little, puckery, strong flavored, but so awesome. Watercress, wild onions, various greens, berries and whatever else ended up as salad. Wasn't a bad way to be raised.
My dad taught me a lot about foraging too. Really good growing up like that. Too bad it was in Michigan and I live in VA now because I can't hand as much of it down to mine. Some but it doesn't all translate.
Whereabouts were you that you found all of these in the same area? Sounds amazing
Wild strawberries are delicious. I once picked them in the south of France and they're so much sweeter than farm grown
high desert side of Washington State.... Colville Indian Reservation. We are "Reznecks"
Yeah, we were po' folk. We gathered berries of all sorts in the fall, mushrooms a couple times a year, hunted, dug roots, ate greens from dandelion to mustard greens and nettles. Mom made 7 kinds of wild berry jams and jellies in the Fall that sold like crazy come Xmas. Wasn't glamorous, but we learned all sorts of fall back foods in case of emergencies.
Eggplant is berries and tomato is berries so eggplant parmesan is just berries and cream
Z
Jesus said:"Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons.." -Matthew 7 How did that "man" know that more than 2 thousand years AFTER HE DIED; ALL THAT WILL HAPPEN, There are so "Many" christian religions today, doing exactly what He prophesied more than 2000 years ago.
"Remember the former things, those of long ago;
I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning" -Isaiah 46 ua-cam.com/video/U7Eh3hkF_YU/v-deo.html
I'll stick with my berries and fresh cream,thank you!
Bananas parmesan. Sounds delicious
Somewhere an itialian granny rolled over in her bed n murmured no no it's no fruit on fruit and cream no no. Instant nightmares from poking at the cuisine.
Intrusive comments that should land you in jail: 😩💀
Strawberries grew wild in the field behind our house in Fairbanks, Alaska. They weren't very big but they were good.
When I was a kid, my mother and I rode our bicycles outside of town, looking for strawberries growing by the road. Not sure if they were properly wild strawberries...but they were smaller and sweeter than what stores usually sell. I hate those big, bland strawberries--they're a ripoff, since they haven't much flavor.
I've been nuts about strawberries since I was a little kid. A birthday present, when I was in my early teens, was a big jar of strawberry jam. It made me happy.
I once crossbred a strawberry that had hideously shaped fruit, but a brilliant taste. I propagated it through runners as the seeds were always infertile. It was a truly remarkable cultivar that I grew for many years, up until we had a very cold winter which reached -30. The whole population of plants didn't survive and i've never tasted a better large strawberry since.
Did you try to use spells to bring it back from the dead?
So sorry for your loss 😭
I've had misshapen strawberries too. The cause was a mineral deficiency according to Google.
I'm curious but are you saying that just the seeds were infertile on your "Franken-berry" which would make it a ever bearing if it had runners or am I wrong..?!
@@bri0013 you are correct, but the cold killed them all :(
As a child some 50 years ago, and while exploring a hilly pasture, I came across a lone strawberry plant growing on the banks of a creek, and on it was a single small strawberry, so of course I popped it into my mouth and can still remember the intense flavor. Unfortunately, the strawberries sold in stores today are the size of golf balls but have practically no flavor. It was as if the flavor of 100 of today's golf ball sized strawberries had been crammed into that one small strawberry.
This is my complaint about many fruits these days: way oversized and underflavored! There is also the consideration that I want to eat the orange, not marry it: it is a snack, a dessert, NOT a meal.
That is GMO's for you. God did not even want you to mess with genetics in the animal and plant world. GMO's do not have the nutritional value either. The Bible teaches not to cross breed cows or plant two different kinds of plants of the same species in the same field. One example was given, such as the grape in the Bible. Why? To prevent cross pollination from the pollinators, such as bees, to prevent the hybrids. The A1A2 milk that comes from the Holstein cow that is predominately sold, came about by dairy farmers crossbreeding over 2000 years ago in Northern Europe. It is not healthy for our bodies. The A2A2 is what is healthy. Southern Europe have cows that produce and in the USA we have the Guernsey which 90% of them are A2-A2 and Jerseys (which have Guernsey in them) are 60% A2-A2. I also found out that the Highland cow is predominately A2-A2. It is believed that the early Scottish used them for both milk and meat.
I recently quit my construction job of 20 years to become a kitchen gardener for a boutique hotel. I grew some strawberries from seed out of curiosity, a simple process. I used cheap strawberry seeds from a hardware shop. The flavour was astonishingly intense. The issue with supermarket strawberries is that they’re picked whilst light green to withstand transport and warehousing. Let them ripen on the plant and they’re incredible, but you have maybe 36 hours to eat them before they’re over-ripe. Presumably there’s a sweet spot when you can harvest and perhaps refrigerate them and you’d get perhaps three days; still completely incompatible with modern logistics.
Store strawberries not picked early. For almost any berry or fruit, if you want great taste, grow it yourself, or maybe buy from a farmer's market where they pick and sell the same day.
@@retiefgregorovich810 I do grow my own. I grow herbs, fruits and edible flowers for a 5-star hotel. And store ones most certainly are picked earlier, for the reasons l gave. The other factor is water. If you water strawberries more, they grow faster but lack taste and don’t turn a vibrant red. Since they’re sold by weight, big watery ones grown faster make more economic sense from a farmer’s point of view. The ones l grow taste like candy and look like nail polish, because they’re grown indoors (where l can control the water) in a mix of thermophilic compost, manure, seaweed pellets and worm castings. Most are necessarily grown outdoors at the mercy of the rain, and they’re drenched constantly with pesticides (nerve toxin) because they’re just bags of sugars, and everything from single- celled bacteria up to insects love sugar. 🍓
What a hilarious ending!
When you have a fruit plate the guests always snatch the strawberries and a ton of the honey dew melon is left over 😂
Food history is so interesting. It's incredible how much history there is behind something as simple as the strawberry.
We should thank the first people who had the nerve to try all of the fruits and vegetables we eat, now!
@@diane9247 For me, cheese is the big mystery. I thank whoever it was that first tried it.
@@simongross3122I heartily agree and second that!
I didn't know Mexico was the world's 3rd producer of strawberries but it makes sense, whenever my family goes on a roadtrip we always stop to buy strawberries directly from the farmers
Mexico and california took all the strawberry production from Oregon and Washington when Drip irrigation and certain heat resistant varieties were became a thing. By the late 80s Oregons export strawberry industry was gone!
@@ForageGardener Well, that makes me sad. I grew up in Salem OR and left in 1983. I remember picking strawberries in the summer.
I miss the oranges & the big bottles of honey
I live in Northern Mexico and certain times of year the street markets get inundated with strawberries and they can be quite cheap. It's hard to eat 2 pounds of strawberries in a couple days :) I need to learn to bake a strawberry pie.
The wild strawberry is native all over Europe to the Polar circle. Their scent is sweeter than the modern garden sorts.
i live in alabama and have had homes with wild strawberries growing in various yards of homes over the years. those would be mowed down when the grass was cut. as a child my mother would tell me not to eat them because she wasn't sure whether or not they were poisonious (and i never was able to understand that).
I didn't knew i wanted to know about this but you got me hooked in less than a minute.
I had wondered about certain fruits and vegetables being introduced to different continents through trade (like potatos and coffee).
But never the strawberry itself.
R
Jesus said:"Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons.." -Matthew 7 How did that "man" know that more than 2 thousand years AFTER HE DIED; ALL THAT WILL HAPPEN, There are so "Many" christian religions today, doing exactly what He prophesied more than 2000 years ago.
"Remember the former things, those of long ago;
I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning" -Isaiah 46 ua-cam.com/video/U7Eh3hkF_YU/v-deo.html
My amazing little grandson calls them "strawbabies!" 🍓👶🧡
The Ice cream truck end was great! 😅
In Louisiana the story is that the strawberry are called that because you stressed the base of the plant so the plant was supposed to use its energy to make fruit instead of shoots.. I have seen people who know nothing and they just get ground cover
Babe, wake up. The Unbelievable History of Strawberrys just dropped
I am growing the wild strawberries which are native to my home in South East Scotland. By feeding them, I get big wild strawberries. They are very sweet and packed with flavour. I have sent runners by post to friends.
What do you feed them?
I also grow wild strawberries in my garden in Belgium - from one plant that I took from the forest near my home years ago. Though I also grow "regular" strawberries, they just can't beat the taste and flavour of the wild ones. Also I just ignore strawberries outside season; the ones we can buy all year round, artificially grown in greenhouses, are just as tasteful as a glass of tap water, just not worth spending my money.
Thanks for your interesting and lovely video
Thanks for the knowledge
I would definitely say that wild ”woodland strawberries” are far better tasting than cultivated strawberries. Just as with raspberries the wild ones are smaller but so much more flavorful.
That is certainly the case here it Scotland. The wee wild strawberries are intense! And the raspberries don't compare at all! Whilst they don't get to the gargantuan proportions of engineered fruit, they do still get fairly large. Both have so much more flavour than the cultivated fruit. Especially if they've had plenty sunshine.
Once you've tasted wild berries, store-bought taste so flavourless in comparison. Love finding patches of those little guys.
I do agree!
Nothing will ever beat the Woodland Strawberry!!!! I was kinda heartbroken when he said they're less sweet? The cultivated ones don't taste like anything in comparison
@@Emil-Antonowsky came here to say the same, in Italy both wild raspberries and wd strawberries are so much better, altho I heard in Schotland are insane
Hey! I'm from Finland and we have wild forest strawberries here, and I'd argue they're far sweeter than cultivated ones, you can smell them from a mile away, man I love wild strawbs 🥲 I also wonder if they're called strawberries because of the way people pick(/ed) them. While foraging we put all other berries in buckets and baskets except wild strawberries because they get mushed so easily, and thread them on... well, a straw. That's what I was taught to do as a kid by grandma and it's been like that for basically forever AFAIK. 😊
Really? That’s interesting. I can not picture how you can do that? How do you thread them on a straw? Thank you.
@@toneenorman2135 Hey! They're so soft and little you can usually just poke a slightly stiffer straw/grass thingy through them :)
Yep. I saw the same thing in Sweden.
Crazy! Now I know.
You're talking about Smultron right? Because at first I thought of Cloudberries(Hjortron) when you described how soft they are haha. I learned the same thing about straws from watching Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn as a kid. it's the tastiest wild treat to find here in Sweden by far. There's so much to eat but when I find some smultron that's not in a ditch where everyone's walking with dogs or cars are throwing all kinds of dirts on them, truly wild ones, I instantly become a child for a moment again.
So funny, running for the ice cream truck.
The end was funny ThankYou
I had always believed that that strawberry got it's English name from the way it was grown. The plants are grown in rows and straw is banked up either side of the row so that the fruit is kept off the dirt and away from slugs. It gives the appearance of fruit growing from the straw.
Interesting to hear an alternative etymology.
In sweden we carry them while picking, by treading them onto a straw. That's what we learn that the name is from.🤷♀️
Berry nice
That sounds like a joke.
Unbelievable!
At 11:33 you have a picture of people harvesting strawberries IN THE FALL? where would that be?
I am in Ontario Canada this would be an early summer harvest
My wife is from Sweden. When we'd go for walks in the forests there, she'd snap off a piece of straw, and slide a wild strawberry onto it to save for later. She'd have 10" of berries on a single straw! Her father taught her thus. Many old Swedes confirmed learning it from their parents. She thinks this is what Vikings did when they came to the UK and that is how the "straw-berry" got its name.
That sounds reasonable. The Vikings certainly had a big impact on the English language.
You can't go leaving those berry straws strewn about, or you'll be wasting your not-real-berries!
I'm finnish and I've done that my whole life. I think it's probably a Nordic thing
They are very large in Sweden, they are called "jordgubbe" which means "land's little old man"
@@arriagatwo4544 Jordgubbe is the name for the domesticated berries, the small wild berries are called Smultron in Swedish.
My grandfather was a strawberry farmer in the 1930's and 1940's here in the Miami, FL area, along with tomatoes.....his harvest time for both plants....November through March
Wow, growing strawberries in florida cant be easy!
@@ForageGardener LOL are you joking ?
@@ForageGardener LOLOLOL I love it when people assume they know things they don't.....DOH.....Florida has the 2nd largest strawberry industry in the US (behind only California) and hosts the largest strawberry festival in the US every year in Plant City since 1930....Florida is also the 4th largest dairy state....many people assume that the only industry in Florida is tourism.....you'd be wrong....everything grows here, mostly farmed vegetables in the Winter
Southern Hemisphere harvest season . 👍
@@davidarundel6187 LOL Florida isn't in the Southern hemisphere LOLOLOL
awesome info, thaNK YOU
Im curious about the history of Mangos. They are huge in India and South America so Im dying to learn more. Loved Strawberries History
I second this!
Mangoes?
@@randomyoutuber8227 Mangos. It's borrowed from another language, so it doesn't need to be anglicised with an e, just like how we spell bongos and not bongoes.
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Domesticated from plants that were fibrous and taste like turpentine.
"Berry" means pick in Balkans, strawberry means what you pick from the grass . Cranberry is what you pick from a tall tree
The ending was the best part though 😂lol
I found your method of ending your video amusing!
I'd love to see a multi-part piece on mushrooms throughout history.
Mushrooms are mysterious and alien-like
U
Jesus said:"Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons.." -Matthew 7 How did that "man" know that more than 2 thousand years AFTER HE DIED; ALL THAT WILL HAPPEN, There are so "Many" christian religions today, doing exactly what He prophesied more than 2000 years ago.
"Remember the former things, those of long ago;
I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning" -Isaiah 46 ua-cam.com/video/U7Eh3hkF_YU/v-deo.html
Yaaaassss and yesterday I saw a meme screenshotting a article about how mushrooms can communicate with each other through pheromones I think.
yes! the origins of culturally significant mushrooms would make for a great video
That would be awesome, I think orange would be a good one too
I adore strawberries 🍓 I decorated my entire kitchen in them and grow as many as possible each year. Thanks for this! Love these Food History videos!!
New York style cheese cake topped with fresh strawberries is my favorite
Creepy Joe loves to wander away when the 'Ice Creme" truck music comes along.
A friend once gave me what she claimed was a wild strawberry from her back yard. It was so packed with the most wonderful strawberry flavor that it was like candy. I instantly developed a deep hatred of all commercial strawberry.
I want a few of those plants (if you still have them lol).
I'm a Southeast Asian and I could never understand the Western love of commercial strawberries. (Like, the "sweetness" and intensity of flavor often don't live up to their marketing hype.) The only strawberries I considered sweet and flavorful were the wild ones I got to eat on a visit to an Italian chef's home in Rome.
@@tachiebillano6244 Thank you. Very informative. Those of us in the west would do well to realize how much our so-called free markets are controlled by those who control our minds.
Would be nice to see a do-it-yourself on this topic. Somebody's got to know how to grow these things.
We call those "Walderdbeeren" which translates to "Wood Strawberries" and they grow wild in the woods.
When I was little in Norway many years ago we used to pick wild strawberries, take a straw, picked many small berries and thread them onto straws = strawberries. I think that might be how they got their name as the wild strawberries were much smaller than the farmed strawberries so putting them on a straw was a good way of collecting them.
Eggplant shortcake, yum!!!🤣
7:46 😂🤣👍
Mad respect for the people who created the strawberries
Hey-Zeus and his magical stick.
I did some digging around, and it turns out I’m a direct descendant of the Fraser family, including the guy mentioned at around 8:20. My grandparent’s last names are Frazier (an Americanized version of Fraser/Frazer/Fraisier, and we even have a coat of arms! The earliest member of the family I could find went back to Sir Simon Fraser in 1306. When our family migrated to North America in the 1700s, the last name was changed slightly. Family is crazy!
My great great grandpa in 1844 took a steamboat from New Orleans up to Cainsville which is now called Council Bluffs. He found a group of Mormons bought a hand cart and waited until the river froze to cross into Omaha and then proceeded to walk the mormon trail all through Nebraska and Colorado to Salt lake city Utah over 1200 miles dragging his hand cart with all of his possessions. Then around 1846 there was some kind of uprising there and he left walked back to Colorado and built the first log cabin in the county just north of Denver that is now a museum.
Wow! That's so cool!
You are not related to him, the scottish english frasers are different from the french fraisiers.
@@noddybebetrain9896 they are not. Clan Fraser is believed to have originated from Plantagenet Anjou in France (which a simple search on Wikipedia shows). They are directly related to each other. Please don’t try to disprove my family lineage.
@@markify8019 you're not special. stop trying so hard, that's so american.
Wild strawberries less sweet? Some of the sweetest fruit I ever had was strawberries growing wild in the Colorado mountains. Conversely, most supermarket strawberries I've had were bred for shelf life and size, not sweetness, and plucked while underripe intentionally (strawberries should only be plucked when completely ripe; you might think they can "ripen" by sitting a room temperature in your house for a while, but really they only grow softer, not sweeter). They were some of the blandest strawberries I've had. Finally, if you eat strawberries too early in the season, they're often less sweet.
Edit: Fire of Learning conceded after several people commented, which just raises my respect for him! So sick of UA-camrs who can never admit they're wrong about anything. . . . So props to Fire of Learning.
3:22 lol the painting
The only thing wrong with this, the sweetest most delicious strawberry I ever tasted was a little wild strawberry in North Dakota. It was like 5 of our modern strawberries packed into one little one.
If you ever have the chance... go outside the USA and eat a fresh local strawberry.
The ones I ate in the States were huge but kind of 'meh'.
The ones I introduced my American wife to here in Belgium made her moan with delight
Think of it this way, just like canned tuna doesn't taste anything as fresh tuna does so shouldn't straw berried flavored things (including strawberry jam) taste anything like actually fresh strawberries. If it does then your strawberries are crap.
I have to agree! The sweetest strawberries are the wild ones that we kids used to pick in border country, in the forest glades, in common ground that alternately belongs to either France or Germany. They are called Fraise du Bois, literally berries of the forest. About the size of a child's pinky nail.
The sweetest, most tasty berries ever.
I grow strawberries and the smallest ones are almost always the sweetest. I have around 8-9 different varieties in my gardens.
I grew up in Alberta and they would grow in the bush and sometimes on lawns and they were so tiny, but so tasty.
It's the same strawberry mentioned in the video. The Virginia Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana) is native in North Dakota. (Lots of North American plants have "Virginia" in their names because the names come from colonial times that predate the states of Virginia and North Dakota.)
Nice to listen to you. You are an artist.
Agreed- his delivery is fantastic!
Very informative and lol at the end.
Fascinating!
Nice, lmao that ending
You did lose me at the eggplant.
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My favorite science teacher was Ms Berry and now things make sense.
Delightful narration.
Cool story
Here in Sweden the large, cultivated strawberry is called jordgubbe - "earth man". Strawberries with whipped cream are a must as a dessert at the Swedish Midsummer celebration - and of course they have to be locally grown Swedish strawberries, and so they become very expensive in the days just before Midsummer.
The wild European woodland strawberry is very different both in appearance and taste. So different that we have a completely different name for it - smultron. They are next to never commercially grown or sold in stores, but in my opinion they are actually almost more tasty, especially when you pick and eat them during your forest walk on a beautiful summer day.
Expensive? Well, get seeds and grow them. Soil, water, sunshine.
@@MemoGrafix In fact it is worth doing but not for the economy of the matter. Swedes get paid far more than most other people on earth, and so it isn't an economic use of their time, growing their own food. It is far cheaper to pay someones prices, even if demand has lifted cost for a period.
The reason it is worth doing is merely for the pleasure of it, the pleasure of growing your own things.
And most people in the world? They are too busy enjoying OTHER things to take the time to grow food.
@@uncletiggermclaren7592 - I comprehend most people are not cut out for growing food. It's DIRTY WORK and I love it when it's about growing food and other productive things.
When I see/listen to people complain about expensive fruits & vegetables are I almost don't care hearing the whining, anyone even with half a brain can grow _some type of food._ Indoors/Outdoors, small/large spaces.
If one will grow Canibus Hemp in a 3ft/91.44cm wide closet, some type of food can be grown also in that same size space.
My late Father grew up farming in South Carolina. He moved to Harlem, NYC - 1955 and still grew food on rooftops of apartment buildings, still growing on his parents land. Even while We lived in NYCHA-Public Housing, started out with window boxes growing food then on roof. We moved to Buffalo, NY in 1978 and every house he owned he made sure there was a big yard. We were never without food.
Me born & raised in NYC, wanted nothing to do with growing so much as a house plant, let alone a garden/farm. I hated when he would take Me & My Brother South to work with him & other Family on the farm. My Father *_MADE_* Me know how to grow food among other things. Saying: *_"When You know how to grow, raise & cook food You'll never starve unless a gun's pointed at Yo' head."_* My Father died in 2009 I had no choice but to go ahead & grow food especially after My Mother died in 2014.
I'm glad I have the skills to do it. I don't have skills for raising large farm animals. like cows. My Father didn't make Me do that, that's for the Men to handle.
Moving on, _money's always good to have in most situations to pay someone else to do the farming/work, but when Governments are dissolved and their currency dies with it people WILL panic & scramble to get food._
*The Great Depression in the USA in the 1930s, some reports were the Farmers did not starve unless they stayed in **_The Dust Bowl._*
Swedes *GETTIN' PAID* very well is good but always keep in mind nothing lasts forever.
@@MemoGrafix 'Wild' strawberries aren't commercially viable. At least not fresh. You cannot ship them, they need to be ripened on the vine. They are very fragile. And they are smaller so avg consumers won't pay for it. Maybe they'd be worth freeze drying or something but I'm not sure how well the difference would shine through when not fresh.
@@Idiomatick - I'm fully aware wild strawberries are not commercially viable/available. However, I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about getting seeds even from the forest, growing Yourself. Not hard since they are WILD.
Freeze Dryings does alter the taste of food a little. I'm quite sure wild woodland strawberries flavor would be altered as well a little.
Here is a bit of background on the role of strawberries in Iroquois society - told to me by an Iroquois ambassador who visited my high school social studies class: The Iroquois veneration of the strawberr was based on a number of thing, only four of which I can remember: 1) It was the first berry to appear in spring, therefore, it's appearance was considered a good omen that winter was over (and at a more practical level, if your winter food stores were running low, the strawberry was Nature's first line of winter relief!) 2) The strawberry symbolically represents a virtuous existence because it's seeds are on the outside - it is not concealing anything. 3) It resembles the shape of the human heart (after watching this video and seeing how the heirloom strawberry resembled a biological heart more than the "heart shape", I have a new appreciation for the authenticity of this sensibility). 4) Strawberries float. I can't remember exactly why that was special to the Iroquois, but not having the benefit of Archemdies principle, I would venture to say that things that could float has a general sense of mystery around them. Perhaps the hollow center of the strawberry was using as a way to explain why a hollowed out log would float as a dugout canoe. There might have been a fifth reason, but the years have been many and I can't think of any more now. If you anyone has direct knowledge of this subject to add, I hope you will reply to this post. I had always wanted to visit the resettlement that the ambassador came from, which was portrayed as an exquisite type of commune, but I think it was lost to the NYS penchant for casino-izing native American communities in the 1990s.
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Thanks for the video.
3:59 got ya
Great writing! Thank you for your hard work!
Near my grandparent's farm in Western Oregon were wild strawberries which grew in an area on a steep hillside in the forest which was very difficult to get to. As a child we used to go to extreme efforts to get to that area and pick those small but very flavorful berries, amusing that we would go to such effort for strawberries, since on our farm we grew about 25 acres of cultivated strawberries, nice berries, but WITHOUT the GREAT flavor of those wild berries!
I love the ending too!
I love the ending!
I just wanna say after watching your videos for years, you never fail to get me interested in your videos, even the ones that sound boring or ridiculous always get me to watch it and made it very interesting, good job for always making very entertaining and fun videos, love your channel and keep going!
I live in a river valley in the Carpathians Mountains in Romania and we cultivate garden strawberries but also around June there can be found wild strawberries in the woods nearby which as shown in the video are smaller. I always thought that people took those wild strawberries, cultivate them and used selection in order to get big fruits. Thanks for such an informative video !
Had wild strawberries in Romania (Transylvania) more than 6 decades ago. They were much smaller and more flavourful.
Also, there were two varieties of wild strawberries - fragi, in the forests and more delicate and capsuni, which also were cultivated
I love strawberries they didn't do too well in our garden last year but this year they did excellently
That ending though XD that was 10/10
My favorite food and a great video! Ty
I love these Food History episodes!
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Ahahaha! Ice cream truck!!😁
Very informative video, thank you
🤣😂🤣😂🤣 awesome! Interesting and funny!!
Thanks 🤗
I’ve never had better strawberries than the ones my granddad grew in his garden in Illinois when I was a kid. Quite a bit smaller than the ones found in stores, they were dark red, juicy and so flavorful. The fresh were amazing on shortcake and my grandma made the best jam to last most of the winter.
That's because fully ripe strawberries only last 1 day. So you will almost never find them in stores. Most of the sweetness pushes into the berry on the last day, hence why store bought are almost always sour.
@@sweetkitty2798 are you attempting to imply that strawberry growers haven't done what seemingly every other commercialized fruit grower has done, and jam packed their product full of chemicals and steroids to get a large crop at the expense of quality?
My father and grandfather both grew strawberries in their backyards when I was growing up. I can assure you, as with this poster, they were different - in size and flavor.
Based on your argument, if it were simply picking the berries before they were ripe, shouldn't they also be smaller (not larger), as they should be less developed?
Technically speaking the best strawberries grow up north, when there's a lot of daylight but the temperature at night stays at reasonable level. Soil also is important. Here we have almost 18 hours of daylight and relatively loose, sandy soil. And excellent strawberries. Best I've had. But I personally also collect some wild ones as well. They are noticeably different, to the point we consider them different "berries" altogether.
I found strawberries actually don't need much light. A couple of mine are directly under bigger plants and get almost 0 sunlight, yet they still produce.
(alt of Sweet Kitty)
@@moef.5326 0 direct sunlight. Well, it's hard to compare without samples ;)
in Switzerland they are called "Heubeeren" like "hay-berries" and I always thought straw or hay in the name is because while growing, they should not touch the wet soil otherwise they spoil and so to cultivate, the fields are covered in straw or hay to provide a dry environment for the berries to rest on and ripe.
I recall reading something similar regarding the English name 'strawberry', that straw was used while the berries were grown.
How fun !!!
You had a total Squirrel moment at the end with the ice-cream truck 😂😂
This video was great, thanks!
Thank you for the amazing endings. Especially today, it’s been 5 years since my mom passed away and it’s been super hard. Your little personality bits, and my fav so far next to Hallar Back Girl is this one!
Thank you, all the best to you.
Strawberry cornbread, interesting. I'm a raspberry person but I do like strawberries. This the season where I am. This was interesting, thank you.
The ending was a bit weird because it didn't seem to fit. It abruptly went from talking about strawberries to an ice cream truck. But hey, if you like it, more power to you.
People do honey and cornbread so it makes sense, I want to try it!
The ice cream truck had strawberry ice cream on board.
I think someone heard the 70's album "Don't crush that dwarf, hand me the pliers" a few too many times. The end of that album is about the same.
Here’s a “raspberry” for ya’! 👅 “Pbbbbbbtttttthhhhh!” (Sorry, couldn’t resist).
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Informative and quite humorous!
Great story
That ending was hilarious and so relatable. Thanks for teaching me something new today.
Wow ❤️ Thank you for sharing 🥰
Thanks Bro... Smarter everyday
I remember when I was a kid I was served "wild strawberries" and they were tiny compared to normal ones you get at the store. The odd thing is, you said the original varieties weren't as flavorful, but I swear these things, while small, packed soooo much more flavor. I wish I knew where to get whatever it was I was served.
Because of hydroponics and size manipulation.. My garden ones are smaller and taste better than market ones too :)
@@TRAZ316 ahhhh ok. Gimme!!
wander around the forests of Oregon/Idaho and you'll find plenty
i had the same experience in vt. a few years ago tiny but really strong flavor .
Go to wild places in Ontario in mid to late June look for red tinged triangle leaves close to the ground, tinny little wild strawberry everywhere.. it will take you a long time to pick a jar of jam.. but it's worth it!! . I got 9 jars this year.. took about 3days to pick.. cost me 33 dolars a jar in labour. So it's hard to buy.. I think some Mennonite markets here in Ontario may have some.. but it's the last two weeks in June and that's it. for the year.
Nothing on Earth comperes to what to translate in English as Earthberry (Russian: Земляника), small (size of a medium blueberry) wild strawberry, grown in the forests of the central Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Can’t be cultivated. Nothing on Earth compares in the complexity of an aroma, texture and taste... It is divine. It is a perfection and it will cost you... If you are ever in that part of the world, make an effort to find some jam on the farmers market. Ones you try it, your will never be the same..😀
Sounds delicious! In Afrikaans (South Africa) we call them aarbeie, which means earth + berries.
I wonder what the fuck did Finland think when naming it mansikka.
@@LV-ni3qs Well, they don't speak an Indo-European language in Finland right?
Just plant a few in your garden or balcony. If the climate is right they grow very easily and even spread very well.
@@LV-ni3qs Eh. It's basically earthberry in Finnish as well. That's the prevalent theory. It's just that "berry" isn't strictly written in all the names of berries, just like it's not in lingonberry ("puolukka") or bilberry ("mustikka"). But you see how those words are ending, just like "mansikka", with that vowel+kka (-kka being technically diminutive). "Herukka" (currant) is one more to add to the list. "Vatukka" is the genus Rubus, which includes raspberries and blackberries. The beginning of the word "mansikka" comes from "maa", "mantu" or something like that, which is, surprise surprise, earth.
4:24 This guy REALLY liked his strawberries.
Hahah love your videos the ending was extremely funny keep up the amazing content
This was highly informative and entertaining :) Thank you kindly.
Perhaps they're called Strawberry because in order to overwinter them in cold climates you cover them with straw to protect them during snow/cold seasons
That's what I heard as well.
I used to grow strawberries. We would use straw to keep the fruit clean while developing. Usually the fruit is too heavy for the plant to hold above ground. But the name is probably just a coincidence.
That's a good theory, but the problem is the name predates cultivation
@@Fireoflearning ah true, i never even thought of this! derp. very interesting though.
@@comtedesaintgermain9269 I was surprised as well
love that you went for the ice cream truck😂😂
I enjoy your humor and I really enjoyed this video so thank you !
TY for your work!! I love strawberries!! Interesting to learn history!
FOOD IN HISTORY - a great older book in some public libraries 🤗
Genius at so many levels 😘😍
Thanks for this informative and humerous look at the strawberry! Look at the eggplants on her