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.)

--Lia