"Julia Altshuler" > wrote in message
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> notbob wrote:
>
> OTOH, how do you think those under/over-ripe
> > berries get on the bottom while the ones on top are picture perfect.
It's
> > because they are put there ...on purpose! It's deceptive packaging and
it's
> > standard practice. Just because you choose to overlook fraud doesn't
mean
> > anyone else has to.
>
>
> You think? The strawberry industry actually has the forethought and
> money to pay fruit packaging employees to go through and sort the
> berries into unripe, bruised and perfect categories, then put them into
> the packages with the perfect ones on top? I always figured the ones on
> the bottom were bruised and mushy because of the forces of gravity and
> the unripe ones were distributed at random. But I don't know; I don't
> work in the fruit picking, packaging or shipping industry. (Am I
> missing irony here? It wouldn't be the first time.)


pick any vegetable or fruit that comes in a can. go down and buy a
'premium' brand and an el cheapo brand. you think its a coincidence that
the beans in the expensive brand look so much better than the ones in the
cheapie can? and have much less stems/skin/flack on them?

heck ya they sort them. they can charge a premium for premium berries.

randy