• @[email protected]
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      1010 months ago

      Kurt Vonnegut’s book ‘Mother Night’ takes place around 1965. There’s a line where a shut in almost swoons when strawberries come back in season. Today you can get fresh fruit any month.

      • @Death_Equity
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        810 months ago

        Even when I was a kid fruit was seasonal. Strawberries, blueberries, watermelon, pineapple, kiwi, etc. were all seasonal.

        I remember being excited when my favorites started showing up in stores through the year. Watermelon was the big one and seedless wasn’t the normal, it was great.

      • @datelmd5sum
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        710 months ago

        You can’t get good strawberries out of season.

          • @datelmd5sum
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            210 months ago

            Yeah I suppose you could fly them in from New Zealand or Okinawa.

            • @Dkarma
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              610 months ago

              Mexico, Guatamala all of central and South America…

      • @lunarul
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        610 months ago

        You can get fruit out of season, but they’re definitely not fresh.

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        610 months ago

        My mom still talks fondly of the first time she ever saw a mango in the supermarket. Nowadays I literally don’t even know when mango season is.