Grapes

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Does anyone else find them tasteless nowadays? I remember as a child in the 80's popping to the greengrocers at the end of our road and buying big bunches of tiny white grapes in a brown paper bag and they were so sweet and delicious. Same with strawberries only ever around in the summer and again brought from the greengrocer in punnets in paper bags, tasted so different to today.

buy then leave out of the fridge for a few hours

I live in Kent. Our strawberries have been singularly drab of late.

But your cherries are epic.

The black sable grapes almost taste like black currants, they're very tasty. I remember eating gooseberries and raspberries straight off my Granny's bushes, they tasted like nothing else I've ever had. Where do you find gooseberries these days?

@Keyansier I wonder about those little red bugs quite often! Not seen them for years!!!! Where did they go?!?!?!?!

I bought sweet sapphire grapes recently and they were the best thing I've eaten in a while.

I just had a bowl of the most delicious grapes this evening, bought from M&S. The one near me has the freshest fruit and veg that actually lasts.

Yes, it’s more of an aftertaste, so they’re sweet and juicy and leave a candy floss taste afterwards.

Scottish strawberries are the best. Sweet and juicy. Yum. We call them money spiders here (the wee red ones).

Waitrose, of course!

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Seedless grapes only really came to the uk in the mid 1980s so it's probably all she'd known.
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I started buying red grapes in the UK because green ones were so tasteless. But here in Australia they're lovely. Likely picked when riper here?

I find Golden Delicious apples absolutely awful when from a shop, but is my favourite apple when picked ripe from the tree. Same sort of thing I guess.

I really miss the Victoria plum trees we had in our old house. So so sweet and juicy. Totally organic and so delicious.

You could have killed the last one! 😱
Dog poo isn't left long enough to go white anymore, and I think it only goes really white if you add bonemeal to the dog's raw meat food.

I think keeping fruit in the fridge is part of the problem, we didn’t keep it there when I was a kid.
I take strawberries out of the fridge to warm up when we are going to eat them. I agree that a lot of them seem forced and tasteless, but the Annabelle’s Deliciously British ones are very nice.

Another vote here for candyfloss grapes. It's always pot luck with the other grapes, sometimes sweet, but often tasteless. Just like the bags of satsumas, so often dry and not sweet enough.

We live in an area with lots of commercial greenhouses growing strawberries and tomatoes. And other stuff. In winter the night sky is pink from the glow of their lighting. People clamour for strawberries from particular growers, which are only available in the strawberry season. They are lush, just as they should taste. With supermarket strawberries and tomatoes let them ripen properly and come up to room temperature before eating. Best toms I remember eating were grown by my sister in France. They were the ugliest looking things, big, misshapen plum tomatoes, that would get left behind on supermarket shelves. But the flavour was immense. We have become accustomed to perfect looking fruit, which creates a lot of waste. We usually buy the wonky fruit and veg, the flavour is the same but we like the variation in size as it suits our family.

I used to love the large green grapes with seeds that used to taste almost floral. I'm really disappointed that it seems to be almost impossible to find grapes with seeds in nowadays.

They are almost all forced nowadays under greenhouse lighting, picked when unripe and left to ripen in refrigerated containers so they last for unreasonable amounts of time. Also GM'd to be unreasonably massive and without many seeds as that's what people seem to like. AND flown in from somewhere.
Any massive strawbs with that white top will be tasteless because of it.
I remember the tiny, deep red ones you'd get for two weeks in July. Grown in a field in Kent and packed in a sustainable cardboard punnet. Bloody delicious.
Our demand for perfect summer fruit all year round that looks like a cartoon has driven this.

Yes! Red grapes still have a little something about them but green grapes are tasteless to me and have been for the past couple of years

Same with strawberries, I've only had one punnet this year that could be eaten on their own, the others were bitter and tasteless so had to be covered in Nutella

We live in a wine region and we get our friends merlot grapes. Massive seeds, tough skins but the taste is out of this world and so juicy you get a sticky chin.

Compared to the genetically modified table grapes the supermarkets sell: thin skins, no seeds, no juice, no flavour. Crap. How have we ended up here?!

My Waitrose grapes are always nice.

The variety is important. Thomson grapes are usually nice. Elsanta strawberries have no flavour at all but Jubilee are nice. I always smell strawberries before I buy, if they don’t smell good they won’t taste nice. Sainsburys misshaped strawberries are often very good.

Bought Braeburn apples in a hurry the other day where I live in Munich.When I got home and looked at the packaging...the apples were from New Zealand!!! I was raging thinking what wonderful apples grow all around us and are in season but somehow somewhere somebody thinks its a good idea the ship them all the way from the other side of the world.We are on holidays atm in Italy and have had the most wonderful fruit and vegetables .I had some nectarines yesterday that tasted like something from heaven.I am going to be extra vigilant from now on and only buy local produce when possible.

I just had a slice of melon which was tasteless. Not sweet or juicy just bland and unjuicy but it's definitely ripe. Grapes, I only buy sable or candy floss for flavour. Strawberries from the supermarket have all been a bit meh.

They taste the same as they always did, you’re just looking at the past with rose tinted glasses.