This is Monday's highlight.
When I expressed concern about the faded redness of the strawberries, the fruit-vendor started throwing jargon at me:
"these are Pink Charlie strawberries and not Ruby Mary" (can't recall the name exactly but it was something like that)
I ofcourse was interested and puzzled at the same time. He then went on:
"Pink Charlie is sweeter while Ruby Mary is deep red, like the toungue (he briefly stuck out his toungue and pointed to it with this finger when he said this) but sour to taste"
I thought to myself that this was an interesting snippet and that I would google it later. Which is precisely what i did only to realise that I had been had. And no, the strawberries were not any sweeter than the deep-red strawberries i have had before.
But, just the sight of a box of strawberries no matter if its pink or red, makes me happy. I bought the box for Rs 50 and gorged on them that evening. yum!
sahee hai!! accha when you buy strawberries (or other similar stuff) from roadside fellows, make sure you check the entire box haan. sometimes the lower layer is sadela. but now your post has made me also feel like eating strawberries. we used to have strawberry milkshakes so often in pune..
ReplyDeleteha ha ha my box had only one layer of strawberries so there!
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