On Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 2:02:48 PM UTC-5, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 10:06:47 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
> >On Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 11:14:05 AM UTC-5, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> >> On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 03:14:11 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> >On Monday, November 23, 2020 at 6:44:07 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> >> >> On 11/23/2020 6:36 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > "MummyChunk" > wrote in
> >> >> > message ...
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> > Here is another recipe that popped up on my phone today.
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > For a dinner party, this is a perfect strawberry cake dessert that
> >> >> >> will please everybody, but fast enough to enjoy any time your heart
> >> >> >
> >> >> > <snip>
> >> >> >
> >> >> > That would not please me in any way, shape or form!
> >> >> Strawberries aren't in season now anyway so the Munnychunk point
> >> >> directing people who the click-bait web site is moot.
> >> >>
> >> >> Jill
> >> >
> >> >It calls for a box of frozen strawberries. The boxes are invariably sweetened.
> >> >
> >> >Every single ingredient is loaded with sugar. Ok, the canned pineapple probably
> >> >could be purchased unsweetened.
> >> >
> >> >My teeth ache just reading the recipe.
> >> >
> >> >Cindy Hamilton
> >> the bags of various fruit from Costco are not sugared, just frozen. I
> >> haven't looked in any supermarket freezer cases to see what is
> >> available there.
> >> Janet US
> >
> >The recipe specified a box. You are, of course, free to
> >use bagged fruit, which is generally unsweetened.
> >
> >The result will still be too sweet for me. Cake mix. Pudding mix.
> >Cool Whip.
> >
> >Cindy Hamilton
> I didn't know that boxed frozen fruit was sweetened. Until Costco I
> only bought fresh fruit.
> Janet US

I'm not sure what kind of packaging is used nowadays; the recipe is surely
a few decades old. When I was young, the only frozen strawberries were
in syrup. The container was a flattened tube of cardboard with rounded
corners. The ends were steel. The whole thing was shaped roughly like
a can of Spam.

The last time I saw such a container was the 1990s. My father-in-law made
the Christmas morning fruit salad with defrosted strawberries in syrup and
bananas--nothing else. My husband and I took over the fruit-salad making
after that.

Cindy Hamilton