Re: Blueberries -- fresh vs frozen

On Thu, 20 Mar 2025, dsi1 wrote:

On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 9:36:35 +0000, D wrote:
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Well, when it comes to bilberries, they grow in the forest and are
harvested by swedish children in autumn. Their small and nimble hands
make
them excellent for this purpose.
 Another strategy commonly employed by smaller companies, is to fly in
berry pickers from Thailand and have them (equally small and nimble
hands)
pick the berries, and then ship them home, when the seasons is over.

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Swedish strawberries are probably superior to even wild Polish
strawberries. I say that because my step-mom is from Sweden. Bringing in

Agreed! This is proven by science! =D

Thai workers in from the other side of Asia seems kind of expensive,
even though they probably don't weigh much and save a lot of jet fuel.

This is the truth! They pay them peanuts, so it's worth it compared with paying swedish workers the union salary + all benefits. It's quite strange really that no one has complains, but I think most swedish people, including union members, think that berrypicking are crappy jobs, so no one wants to do it. So that is probably why the Thai pickers are accepted.

Perhaps some Poles could be trucked in on Tesla Electric trucks. In this
way, his image can be redeemed in the eyes of Americans.

I wouldn't be surprised if this would be Elons next move! Could you imagine having some Elon-berries in your yoghurt? Harvested by poles, or robots, shipped to you on the purest Tesla trucks! ;)