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I grew up with wild strawberries growing in my back yard. You could eat them, but they were sparse, the size of medium-sized blueberries, and tasted similarly to a green modern strawberry. I'm quite happy with the $0.98/LBs modern strawberries I can now buy at my local grocery store. (Less intrigued by the $4+/LBs organic ones they try to sell me.)

I watched a TEDx talk (I think) by some lady talking about the pre-human-intervention foods and how this one's toxic and that one's gross and so on. I've been unable to find the video since, though. If anyone knows the talk I'm talking about, I'd love a link.



> I watched a TEDx talk (I think) by some lady talking about the pre-human-intervention foods and how this one's toxic and that one's gross and so on. I've been unable to find the video since, though. If anyone knows the talk I'm talking about, I'd love a link.

If it's a TEDx talk then don't bother; there is no scrutiny regarding the talks they allow and most are quite embarrassing displays of science ignorance. I'm actually surprise TEDx hasn't damaged the TED brand more than it has.


It's a shame you're getting downvoted so heavily, because you're absolutely correct. The overwhelming majority of TEDx talks I've watched or listened to have been pretty terrible. I actually knew someone who was a TEDx organizer, and she confided in me that their selection criteria basically comes down to, "does the proposed talk sound scientific and/or inspirational?"


Some of them are crap, and some are good. Yes, they lack quality controls, but that doesn't prevent quality. It just means I need to take claims with a grain of salt and independently verify them.


I've rarely had a good store bought strawberry, and had great strawberries in the garden growing up. Not Wild Strawberries however. This variety had been in the family for years, but probably had been commercially bought plants from the 50s. As the TEDx talk you mention may note probably very very different from real wild strawberries.

Really commented because I felt very compelled to diss store bought strawberries.




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