What’s with muscle-bound strawberries?

Have you ever grown strawberries in your back yard?  You should.

Then you’ll know what a real strawberry is.  It’ll be small, and red inside as well as outside.  And it’ll taste rich and deep and strawberryish.

It won’t look anything like the behemoths you find in the supermarkets.  A gigantic, hard, almost red, chunk of fiber, that looks like an apple when you cut it open.  All white and tough, with just a tinge of pink near the edge.  And if you’re lucky maybe you’ll find some actual red just at the very edge.

It’s not a strawberry.  It’s a deformed apple-looking-kind-of-almost-fruit-thing with bigger-than-they-should-be-pale-green-seeds all over the outside.

And it won’t taste like one either.  Bite into one and you’ll think your taste buds died.

And the seeds will get stuck in your teeth.

Makes your mouth water, doesn’t it?  Yeah, right.