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As someone who’s family business involves the farming occupation… I’m laughing so hard. Fruits and veggies can NATURALLY mutate themselves to be bigger or smaller, have different tastes, colors, and just general growing properties (depending on numerous factors such as the soil, the minerals in the soil, how much it is watered, insects, pollination, and more! ) . It’s a very very normal thing, I promise! With that said, please make sure the food you are consuming is ripe and within date if it is packaged!
those people are obviously not gardeners. ive grown veggies and fruits in my backyard and when i harvest them, some of them are wonky looking, some are tiny, some are huge, and they are all different. these tik tokers think that “good” strawberries all look the same and same size… its funny they do not know what they are talking about
When I was younger my foster carer gave us watermelon. It was bad. I told her it was bad. She made me eat it anyway. She would always bring out the “there’s starving kids in Africa” if I didn’t like something. Which was cruel giving that I had been starved in Australia. I hope she gets off food when she’s in the nursing home
As a person who touches grass and likes to garden, those rubbery watermelons are dried out so they don’t have that crispiness. The floppy watermelons are unfortunately rotted, same with the bubbling watermelons. That acocado is WAAAY under ripe, and that strawberry is just weird but delightfully plump. Looks like someone just manhandled those chicken breasts during packaging. The salmon is just gross and probably went bad. We as a society need to touch more grass.
We do modify, genetically, almost everything. Look at dogs. The reason we have so many breeds (with pure breeds being so imbred we have bred defects into them like being deaf, cancer, only can have pups via c-section). We do this with food. Have you seen a “wild” chicken? They are lean. We fatten them hard core to get those huge breasts, we have killed bananas, there used to be a variety of colors of carrots. So while it’s not “fake” but heavily modified to the point it’s not tasting or looking like the origin.
Gardening In Canada explained this thing with “fake” rubber fruits – not enough water, green fruits. When i have apples for weeks in fridge they also became rubber, not a fresh apple texture anymore. Somehow in Germany i’ve never seen any rubber fruits that you buy in supermarket, so either tiktokers are faking it, or there are problems with some companies that deliver fruits to USA.
Many people don’t realize how selective breeding works or GMOs or natural mutations, your dog and cat are selectively breed through centuries of evolution. Most dogs and cats don’t have an ecological niche that isn’t dependent on humans and their niches, basically your cat and dog depends on you to survive in more ways than one.
I promise you, not all Americans are this crazy, I swear. I shake my head right along with my UK, European, and Australian friends. Critical thinking is not something they truly teach in K-12, anymore. Though I in no way blame the teachers. They want quiet, obedient, little cogs for the machine that is capitalism. It’s the hijacked and broken systems in this country. They want what I refer to as sheeple. People content to be lead around by the nose. As long as they don’t have to think for themselves.
As an American, the number of people that don’t understand how food actually works in my country is abundant. It ceases to amaze me how frequently the citizens of this country can come up with yet another way to be absolutely embarrassing. As a country we need to end monocrop culture and learn to utilize crop rotation, but that fight is gonna take a while. I’m doing my best, lol.
I’m from Germany, thank God we don’t have this problem but we also have a lot of people who are more than stupid when it comes to food, especially with children because they are not taught it. I once had a child visiting who was completely horrified that my Friends and I ate apples straight from the tree because he thought that you can only eat apples that are sold in the supermarket and that all other apples that grow on trees are poisonous. ( ；∀；)
I have fruit trees and fruit bushes that I love to pick fruit from. Sometimes I choose poorly and I pick an unripe peach or berry. Those unripe fruit taste and feel, well, unripe. Unripe fruit is rubbery and hard and not sweet yet. So this “phenomenon” has been around for as long as we have been picking fruit that should’ve stayed on the vine or branch longer to ripen. I wonder if they have ever gone fruit picking or grown their own produce?
To that strawberry. I have been living in a village and my mom had a small field of organic strawberries (okay, kinda organic, because she sprayed them once with pesticides, when they were flowers yet, and that’s all, just natural fertilizers). Our biggest strawberies compared to two euro coin would be four times like that.
The chicken is like this because when the chicken is being raised, they are being fed growth hormone\\vitamins\\etc to bring them up to weight as quick as possible so they can be sent to the slaughter house and create profit. The chicken is developing so quickly that the resulting meat is stringy because the circulatory system cannot keep up with the development of the breast tissue/muscle. The results are meat that is string like in texture, with an almost gummy texture. Currently most non organic chickens are raised primarily for their breast meat as again that is the most profitable portion. The farmers that raise the chickens don’t actually own them or even know what is fed to the chickens as it is sent to them by companies such as perdue. They are only contracted to grow them commercially. Once that chicken hits weight, they are shipped out by the food company (perdue, tyson, etc). I live on the eastern shore of Maryland, USA, which produces a large part of the chicken for the east coast and have friends who are chicken farmers and one who works at a chicken processing plant, both contracted by Perdue. All have seen the results of ill health due to chemically enhanced growth. There are so many types of “growth enhancers” that are added to an animals feed over the course of their growth cycle, all meticulously researched to ensure the largest profit margin. The kween is correct about needing to point the finger at corporations for the way foods is produced in the usa. It is profit based only with no health thought given.
I’m sure others have already mentioned this, but giant strawberries are genetically more tasty! They have a difference in genes that makes them really big and sweeter! Also my grandma taught me with watermelons that if you knock around different areas of the melon, and it feels “hollow,” it’s a good watermelon. There’s hopefully some articles explaining the right sound and feeling, but if you go out and test a few, you’ll find some dull ones, where you can’t feel the vibrations throughout it, and some “hollow” ones that you can feel a bit more. Hope this helps someone!
Most Americans know literally nothing about where food comes from beyond the supermarket. I’ve seen people cut open heirloom tomatoes and claim that they’re “genetically modified,” when the reality is that those bumpy, striped tomatoes were what most tomatoes looked like before they were bred for uniformity, durability in transport, and longer shelf life. They’ve just never grown anything themselves, don’t read, and are only familiar with what they find at their local big box stores. I’ve had people claim that non-orange carrots were “sus” when 5 minutes on Google would show that all the other carrot colors predate the orange ones. It really is just weird!
Let alone some apples are small because of their breed, they are often very juicy. There’s a whole brand of small apples in Brasil that are sold under Turma da Mônica’s name (bc the creator funded the research decades ago) that are pretty small, juicy and crunchy with beautiful colors mostly because they are meant to be given to small kids to get used to the taste of fruits early on.
Happy you covered this. Luckily when I saw this playing out my 2nd vid was the Avocado one and that’s happened to me so I knew it was just unripe but….this is kinda dangerous to be putting out there, for someone who’s suffered with OCD / contamination issues with food and bc of that general disordered eating behavior seeing this ” in the wild” ( if I hadn’t seen the avo vid myself) would’ve sent me into a spiral. You’re 100% right about meat and fish of are you re freezing it? Did you defrost it properly? Etc. So I’m not sure what’s worse ppl not using common sense ? Or ppl are actually getting paranoid and then setting Off other ppl with a real problem…or it’s ppl just doing it for views and creating problems ughhhhhhhhhh
These people need to be taught how to choose watermelon properly. I recently bought watermelon from the grocery store and it was perfect. When choosing a watermelon, it’s best to choose the roundest one you can find with dark colored, dull skin and a yellow spot. It should also have a tenor drum like sound when you hit it.
I commented on so many of those articles explaining to people that none of the fruit was fake lol. I grew up in a farming town and many of my cousins were (and still are) farmers. Since we were family, we would often get free watermelons, squash, corn, and many other fruits and veggies from them right after they picked them. It wasn’t uncommon to see things picked too early or too late, and if you accidentally left something like a watermelon in a hot and humid area for too long before storing it, it would go bad quickly. My guess is that 1) the farmers are being rushed to pick their harvest before it is ready and 2) the stores are not properly storing the fruits and vegetables they are selling, but still advertise them as being “fresh”. Also, it doesn’t help that most of the people who are posting the articles live in an area that doesn’t grow a certain type of produce so it is being shipped long distances in this brutal summer heat. People would just rather be afraid and blame the government than just do a simple google search. Trust me, the government is to blame for A LOT of things, but fake fruit isn’t it.
Sustainable agriculture major: it’s true that a lot of crops are bred to be larger now at the expense of nutritional density, and that is a topic of debate right now, but that doesn’t make those foods “fake”. It is SO concerning to me how disconnected people can be from their food. If they’re that concerned about their food being fake, they should get involved in a community garden! Or find a local CSA program to buy from! Or grow strawberries on their balcony! I know those things aren’t possible for everyone (food justice is not great right now), but I genuinely believe it’s SO important to have real experience with where your food comes from, or you’re liable to end up buying into conspiracies like these.
as someone with huge paranoia of food i definitely wouldnt push it to other people on instagram reels like yeah i get it i also have a fear of eating expired things and food with certain things in it but i do have common sense that if a watermelon is rubbery mabye because its been through a heat wave or too ripe like bfr guys
I feel so dumb right now, I saw hayley’s vid a couple weeks ago and as someone (yes i am american and believe it or not a biology major so lemme just bonk my head with a frying pan real quick lmao) who has a lot of anxiety about getting sick from diseases or bugs on fresh produce, I unironically kinda believed it. I have had a bad experience with produce and often don’t feel safe buying anything but frozen veggies and fruits, so I believed it lowkey, having not experienced this. But I have also not cut up a watermelon before / after it was ready to eat so I’ve never experienced huge variance in my watermelon texture. But boy I feel dumb rn THANK YOU DRAMA KWEEN for waking me UP (also that american tw was SO FUNNY at 1:46)
Assuming that not all of these vids are some sort of rage bait or grift to gain views and money, it saddens me to see how far removed people are from the food they eat. Like nobody knows the basics of where their food comes from, why it is the way it is and so on, they rather come up with some crazy outlandish theories.
I’m American and where I live we do have some rotting or unripe fruit in produce sections, I do think stores should be doing something about this but the consumer should also check their fruit and vegetables before purchase. I worked at Walmart for 3 years picking online grocery orders and I constantly had to be very careful when getting produce. Another thing is, around where I live at least, no one is hiring. Workers are underpaid and overworked because stores will not hire more staff, I think that has something to do with the economy atm. But I am just so pissed that people are spreading fear about this stuff instead of saying “hey make sure you check your produce” but that doesn’t get as much attention 🙄
It always amazes me that they accuse the food of being fake isntead of just poor quality Making fake foods that have so many similarities to real foods but just have a strange texture would be vastly more expensive than just using poor quality food, if the technology for making such similar fakes even exists
Girl, it’s not those watermelons that are all mushy. It’s the watermelons that look ripe or ripe that we just bought a day or two ago and literally will not break in half like a normal watermelon. But I don’t recall any any of these people saying that now I gotta go make a article about how to purchase a ripe watermelon and see what happens.
I bought some really nice looking strawberries couple months ago, tried them when I got home and they tasted like chemicals. No amount of washing made them taste like anything but chemicals. Took them back and somebody at the store said that it had been about 50/50 on people getting good ones during that sale vs. the ones like I got. Never had it happen before that, haven’t had it happen since. Weird stuff. I think the worst that I’ve had happen with fresh fruit apart from that is getting what I think is going to be a really nice peach and then it tastes like absolutely nothing
Re-freezing any type of food makes it catch bacteria etc more easily. Might be the reason many of the foods shown in those tiktoks look a bit weird. Its common hygiene rules that most ppl should know. In Greece its a major thing u learn if you work any type of food related job. (sorry, english isnt my first language.)
Because Americans value the word of untrustworthy click bait rather than be logical lol. Literally all I post is my art that I create oh and a few emo trends. Buttt never my food, maybe it’s because I worked in a kitchen where we made stuff fresh daily, but yea most of these “fake foods” just aren’t at its peak or way past its peak. This is why I go to the local farm markets rather than big box stores. It’s so much better and usually get your worth for what you pay for.
We have a vegetable garden and I have to warn visitors not to put the black berries directly in their mouth, because at this time the larve of tiny flies live in them. They first need a soak 😂 I bet many people eat them just as they are when they wild pick. If you are ok with some extra protein it is totally fine of course 😅 Picking at the right ripeness is also difficult for people who don’t are educated. Hard and sour, sweet and mushy or already having mold inside? I hate avocados, I never get them at the right stage of ripeness.
omg i hate the whole “GMOs ARE AWFUL AND YOU SHOULD EAT ORGANIC” bc i guarantee you if you ask those ppl what GMO stands for, you get a blank stare. Bananas don’t naturally look like that, they have been selectively bred to look the way they do, if you want a non-GMO banana look no further to a 2 inch, extremely bitter fruit with massive seeds. TLDR, if you want ur fruit to look like how you think they look, thank GMOs
Fair point though, at least in my perspective, a lot of these fruits you cannot tell its like that until you open it up and try it. It’s also hard because its now spreading across a lot of different fruits a vegetables. Hell I bought lettuce for BLTs and lettuce is wrapped in plastic and you cannot tell until you have bought it that thats how the fruit or veggie is. It sucks to say but it’s also hard avoiding it or trying to find something actually healthy and worth it. Many very trusted stores are selling this and its impossible to tell because you cannot try the fruit or veggies before you buy. It’s infuriating me that this is happening, whether it be that our fruit is now plastic or if it is because of the drought. I seriously am so cautious at every store and I still get it. Like, oof frustrating and goddamn send some fruit and veggies up here cause apparently our farms are struggling.
I mean, yeah, they are sort of dumb, but why is the store always selling us crappy produce? Underripe, flavorless, sometimes I go in and they’re selling moldy food. US produce quality is terrible. It’s also weird she said she cut the melon up “for her kids” like aren’t you going to eat it? Is healthy food only for children?
Some of you are acting like you’ve had rubbery food your whole life… if that’s the case, where do you live? I live in western Canada and never seen rubbery fruits before the current year, despite having ripe and past ripe fruits in my diet forever. I’m so curious what regions have had rubbery fruit for years lol. I’ve also worked in many grocery stores and there was never any complaints of rubbery fruit ffs. That is not normal for fresh fruit, only frozen/thawed fruit.
They all have the same cause, improper storage (wrong temperature or stored too long). I still want to know why this was previously uncommon and now much more common. Personally, I think the stores are trying to maximize profits, so they buy a lot at a reduced rate and sell it over many months, but it could be an issue with the producers or trucks. I got a watermelon yesterday and it wasn’t rubbery, but it was squishy and chewy. Even the bad watermelon I’ve had before stays crispy. Apples have been stored for months in freezers before, and they’re doing it with other fruits now so they can sell more.
All food from the beginning of farming and agriculture is “genetically modified” via selective breeding. Farmers would replant the seeds from the better (bigger, tastier, meatier) fruit and veggies and not reuse the seeds from the smaller yuckier ones people don’t want etc. That is genetic modification.
MA-AM- I love your vids, and this one too, especially the fact that the fruit isn’t the fake food here, but rather, heavily processed junk foods and stuff, like kudos, def spread the good word, but GURLLLLL- We DO NOT HAVE “local fresh grocers” here!! ALL WE HAVE IN AMERICA IS CHAIN GROCERY STORES 😭😭😭 I don’t even know how yall live in Aussieland, but AMERICA IS RUN BY CORPERATIONS 😭 MOST FARM LAND HERE IS ALL FOR COMMERCIAL USE- NO ONE OWNS FARMS ANYMORE (All I want someday is my own small house and a big garden… so I really can just grow most of my own produce 😢🙏)
I feel like not everyone gets that GMO isn’t always done in a lab. For generations and generations in the past different but similar plants (like different kinds of squash) or different types of the same plant have been grown together and force cross pollinated to modify their genes through natural selection and breeding. Like all the way back to the scientist Mendel. At one point, all the original version of bananas died off. If not for selective breeding and genetic modifications we’d have no bananas today. Rice and Wheat originally produced so little crop so even in ancient times people crossbred grain plants and killed those not producing enough to ensure only strong genetic traits were able to pollinate. Corn wouldn’t be anything like it is today without breeding and modifications. I think people just hear a buzz word and assume that it MUST mean something scary and horrible. Have there been issues in lab modifications, sure, but they’re the rare outliers. And the majority of modifications, even today, are just selective breeding.
Honey, i love you …. but you SERIOUSLY need to do some research about Monsanto and the fall of the true farming industry. I live in ohio and have a farm. We don’t farm food, but our neighbors and friends can confirm that the government has basically bullied them to grow gmo seeds or raise their taxes SO MUCH, they lose their farms… its truly sickening! Start with perusal The Biggest Little Farm… but honestly, research at your own risk! Eating regular food will never be the same…
american here, have had many watermelons this year not once have we had a “rubbery” watermelon, and are even growing some of our own vegetables in our garden and they’re coming out huge, I think when people don’t grow fruits or vegetables or don’t carefully look at what they’re buying before they buy it, what ends up happening is when something goes wrong they just instantly jump to some sort of conclusion to try and feel better for neglecting to check the product they bought
as an american, yes some processed foods are actually awful & yes most stores put extra preservatives in anything cuz america is js kinda like that atm and i dont like it, HOWEVER the fruits vegis and basic things as such have little to no additives and these ppl are js making a fool of themselves. also the strawberry one? does he not know thats js how some of them grow?? if every strawberry looks PERFECT then id be worried like tf i also dont blame ppl for being paranoid esp w the disgusting processed shit america produces, but cmon js google ur problem dont go to tiktok.
She acts like she knows everything… the reason the fat ass strawberries u saw at a farm looked fat is bc they r genetically modified. Go to any other tropical country you will see the fruit is smaller. And obviously they grow out of the ground… that proves nothing. I woudbt take edvixw from someone who admits to not even caring about the ingredients in their food especially on the subject of being upset by grocery goods being in their natural form.
I work in an organic produce department…. trust me people are so stupid. I had a person ask how they grew watermelons if they were seedless. Seedless Watermelons aren’t seedless, they have just bred the melon over years and years to have the seeds not ripen when the melon is really to harvest. Also important to remember-GMOS are different than gmos. GMOS are the bad stuff, gmos just mean they have been bred to give us varieties🤷♀️
every plant ever has been genetically modified since the creation of agriculture by cherry picking the best crop of the seasons seeds and planting them with the seeds of a more hearty fruit because people like more food in the food and farms found that out way before anyone else genetic modification isn’t bad its a buzz word used for clicks, if you wanna see old water melons look at the resonance at the great still life oil paintings farming and food consumption will always change because it makes it easier to grow and easier to feed needing less land but equal food its a stupid tactic to make people scared of grocery stores but buy there 200 dollar “non gmo non processed non contacted” greens powder mix using there code
The man showing the big strawberry pissed me off so much, im European, we have so so many strawberries in the garden and at my grabdmas garden as well, that big strawberry has to be the most natural strawberry in the shop, my strawberries sometimes have little arms or a baby with them, a thumb sized strawberry is basically considered unripe here
DRAMA KWEEN ITS NOT HALLOWEEN YET! NOT THE FREAKY WATERMELON 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Also our modern fruit and veggies are a blessing. Does it look like I wanna eat a watermelon from the 1900s!? OR A CUCUMBER FROM DECADES AGO!? NO CAUSE THAT CUCUMBER WOULD BE FILLED WITH SPIKES AND IT WOULD BE POISONOUS. Oh the fruit we have today so delicious and scrumptious. Do your research people
I once got fresh bell peppers for a dish I was planning to make soon. Plans changed so I figured I couldn’t use it before it would go rotten, (the other ingredients were more long-lasting/pre-frozen) so I cut it into chunks and froze those chunks according to internet suggestions on how to freeze bell pepper. When I took it out I let it defrost overnight in the fridge. Good thing I checked my ingredients before starting my cooking, because those once fresh, crisp bell pepper chunks I froze were now mush. At least I had time to go buy new bell peppers for my dish. We once got a sushi&sashimi set and every bit of salmon in it, while looking and smelling fresh, had the texture of rubber. It was near-impossible to bite through or chew. We assumed it was just a really tough salmon that was powerless before the sushi chef’s sharp knives, but to our teeth was the victor. So we ate only the other bits of the set. Wrongly processing items can turn them bad, and some items were not fit for processing despite looking it. Fruits and veggies are often picked before they are fully ripe because the route to the store is so long that if they were ripe before going out, they’d be a rotten mush fit only for composting by the time they got to us. So they get picked and processed at a time calculated to allow them to finish ripening during travel if kept at specific conditions. But some, while looking it, are not yet ripe enough to ripen further to perfect edible form while in the perfect conditions.
as someone who has three year old (this year! woo!) strawberry plants outside… yeah, they usually don’t get that big. but guess what? sometimes, the plant pushes out a biggin!! I harvested THREE the size of my palm this year. I have small hands, but they were roughly the size of the one the guy was holding. be so fuckin fr 💀 now the avocado and watermelon does freak me out.
The whole rubber food thing is stupid, but when older these people talk about how food looks their basis of comparison is how food used to look over the course of their lives, while younger generations don’t have enough history behind them to make that kind of comparison yet. The whole reason buying organic became so popular is because of steroids, hormones, pesticide use when it came to food. Steroids were given to animals to make them larger, and much of of the non-organic meat being sold in stores come from freakishly large animals. There are chicken breasts sold in stores that are the size of turkey breasts we had when I was a kid. I grew up in central California on the coast, and every day I walked to school during strawberry season, myself and other kids would swipe a strawberry from the edge of the farm on our way by. Those strawberries were perfect and half the size (sometimes smaller) than the strawberry the man was holding in the store. In fact, when my mom would go to the produce section to buy strawberries it was like looking for treasure, because when you would find a big strawberry, and those were smaller than the one the man was holding in the article, you felt as if you had won the lottery, or literally found treasure because big strawberries were not common at all. When someone is 40 or 50 or 60+ years of age, they’ve done a lot of grocery shopping in their lifetime and have a whole lot of history and experience to use as comparison as to what’s happening now, and the majority of people that age have kids, grandkids so have shopped, prepped and cooked meals more times than you can count and know how to choose food that is healthy for them, were taught by their moms how to shop and what to look for to make sure that they are getting the freshest food, as well as how to store food to keep it fresh and safe to eat.
bro I gotta say something about the damn strawberry. 1) there are strawberries that grow bigger, they’re called june-bearing. only downside, they only grow in (Sometimes around) the month of june, hence the name. the smaller strawberries tend to be ever-bearing which grow all growing season. 2) thinking economically, WHY THE F— WOULD U GROW A PLANT THAT ONLY PRODUCES IN JUNE AND THINK THAT CAN MAXIMIZE UR PROFITS 😆
Just to say with the side by side of ingredients at 6:43 there is no more it’s just the fda or food and drug administration just requires for every ingredient to be add but In the eu they just call it by the blanket term of what is the combination name of the chemicals so yeah they have the same ingredients and red 40 is not banned in Europe ir goes under allura red
If you dont want a shitty watermelon, learn how to thump it. if ya thump it and it sounds hollow, that’s a ripe melon. if its mushy, its rotten. if its rubbery, its been through a heatwave or drought. hell i remember getting a rubbery watermelon FROM MY GRANDMOTHERS GARDEN WHEN I WAS LIKE 8 and it was because we were going through a drought! the amount of people who just. dont understand how food works makes me lose what faith in humanity i might’ve haf
every time i see someone talk about GMOs in a bad way, i think of a article i saw of bill nye saying (paraphrasing) “GMOs are why we haven’t starved as a species, we found ways to make our food taste better and last longer” and it just makes me so sad. the banana we buy in stores, the one in the article, is literally only possible through genetic modification. i’d prefer my food be genetically modified to be better!!!!! it’s not a bad thing, it’s literally just an evolution speed run???? there’s genuinely no such thing as “non-GMO” because every single thing we have today, INCLUDING OURSELVES, is genetically modified. that’s how life literally works.
hey just hopping in as someone who studies agriculture: genetically modified foods have been around in America since at least the 1980’s, and there’s SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much policy in place that prevents, enforces, and administrates what we put in our mouths. I get it, hehe Americans eat red food dye and artificial sweeteners and preservatives lolz, but dude. The TLDR version of all the policy in place that specifies what, how, where, and why any sort of gmo anything is allowed to be put to market is literally 74 pages long. thats the SUMMARY, so no, even if you severely distrust giant conglomerates and the more and more corporatized government, we aren’t in cyberpunk. Give at least the hardworking producers working their asses off all year to hopefully harvest this new crop, that they teamed up with qualified pros to hopefully have a longer shelf life, or require less pesticides, or has a higher yield (all of which saves YOU MONEY, in case you haven’t noticed the price of food is increasing and the organic stuff is gonna go for even more of a premium.) some credit. Yes, the farmer who has spent the last year straight without a day off, worrying about rainfall, soil, pests, proper amounts of sunlight, temperature, fertilizer, all that is going to throw away multiple tens of thousands of dollars… to save a quick buck by selling you “fake” strawberries. sure. F off. We need a generation where people get all their food themselves, meat included. There’s not knowing where your food comes from, and there’s thinking that “They” are out to get you through your chicken.
Real quick this is not hate from my side just a bit of information because while yes these articles are ridiculous of people being very uneducated on fruits and vegetables, some of them, like the strawberry guy, make a somewhat valid point. All of the fruits and veggies that we eat now have been selectively bred in the past. That is not GMO (genetically modified). But a lot of produce is GMO for example corn which is modified in a way that it’s resistant to pests or herbicides. GMO fruits and veggies are not harmful to humans but not legal to sell or import in many countries because there needs to be more research done on them. (I think) What strawberry guy is talking about though is ripening agents which are part of the cause for huge strawberries. There are some ripening agents that are a health hazard if you come in contact with it directly but those are usually banned. Either way ALWAYS WASH YOUR FRUITS AND VEGGIES and eat plenty of em.
Lol at the people with mind control hats! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I get funny about textures too though which is one of the reasons I dislike fruit. I can eat some citrus fruits or banana at a push but it’s painful to watch! The closest I get is mango chutney with curry, or stuff like fruit cake/banana bread. I don’t really like mushy peas but I tend to force them down with fish and chips. I don’t know why my fellow English compatriots (yes it’s not my fault I lost the birth country lottery) consider the dish “British” because the fried fish element alone was introduced by Sephardic Jews who came from Portugal in the 1400s I think. Yes I’ve started a whole other debate now lol, deviation is what I do best! Funny how you tear everything apart new one, I wouldn’t want to get on your bad side!
Fat shaming that perfect strawberry tho 🤬🤬🤬 But for real, sometimes I really think you’re too much 😅🫣 First time I comment by the way haha cause when I don’t have something nice to say, usually…. 😉 But guuuuuuuuurl we are so on the same level about this one omg they are not ok man they need help lollllll so, yeah, sorry to bring the scoop that fruits rotted 🤦🏼♀️ (Sorry English is not my first language but doing my best 😊)
Watermelon is over 10 dollars here. These rich ass people buying rubber fruit for views should buy me some groceries. I haven’t had celery in months because it’s 6 dollars. I just want some tuna salad ffs! Oh yeah tuna is also 4 bucks a can. So what was a struggle meal is now luxury since mayo is 9 on top, and pasta about 3. FML.
Produce dad is right though. I’ve managed produce for a health food supermarket. We visited local farms & even the places that grow without pesticides and chemical fertilizers grow some genetically modified stuff. The strawberries are bred to be sugar bombs. The discourse is just misguided. There’s a whole spectrum of treatments and conditions that fall under the “fake” umbrella. Vocabulary is important. Stay rad. Drink Pepsi
From a quick search and exploration on the internet the chicken breast could be stringy is possibly a defect if not being thawed and frozen over and over again. Still edible, just ugly- supposedly in texture and nutrition (likely not enough lack of nutrition for us to truly worry about it). If you’re curious it’s likely myopathy. This could possibly (not fully confirmed) be from the way poultry birds are grown unnaturally quickly (This is done through genetics and a diets).
There’s nothing wrong with American watermelons. I just bough a beautiful one at my local veg market. It was huge and very yummy. The trick is buy a RIPE one. Americans don’t pay attention and I say this as a American. When I’m in the UK, I hate admitting I’m American. As for the strawberries, I go to a Upick local farms here in Florida. And the strawberries are huge and juicy. I wonder what they would have to say about the huge blueberries we grow local.
Why are so many people in the comments getting mad about not knowing how to pick out good produce? Like that one rotten watermelon article, the watermelon was literally squishy. Do you actually believe that the person who made that article genuinely thought they had picked out a perfectly good watermelon THAT WAS SQUISHY?? The people doing this are so obviously just lying for views 🤦🏼 stop getting mad at the people saying to check your produce. It takes a few seconds to look up how to select good produce and you can always ask the people working if they can help you!
the cultivation prosses often picks fruit ripe from the vine so it has time to ripen during the shipping prosses, the one problem i myself have run into is that fruit is not ripe in the store and not ripening at home. . . the fruit rots before it can get ripe proporly. . .i have tasted alot of rotten fruit lately that is even fresh bought and i inspect everything the best i can when buying fresh produce. . . . this is in city areas where agriculture is farther away.
OMG these people! Over ripe watermelon is squishy. The Rubbery watermelon or fruit and veg is just very fiberous… when we had droughts over the past couple of years and less rain during growing seasons the more FIBEROUS plants become… we are sooo used to these highly selected for bigger traits and yes some are GMO’s from grocery stores that we can’t have the concept of how food reacts to being what it is… consumables with a shelf life
The whole deal with the giant strawberries is so funny to me because these people forget that…. Fruit in the US are just not great. Or that ither countries have WAY bigger fruits/veggies. Like, damn my neighbor gifted my family some avocdoes from her own tree because she had too many and they were WAY bigger than any avocado I have ever seen in the US lol
The thing with meats pisses me off because 1. lab grown meat is ridiculously expensive, NOT cheaper, so no store is going to replace “real” chicken with lab anything and not charge bouku bucks for it; and 2. meat is muscles, muscles are made out of muscle fibers, so when it gets frozen and thawed a couple times and because water expands when frozen, the muscle fibers get spread apart and you’ll be able to see them more clearly than if it was fresh.
Not too long ago, I seen a article about the ‘rubber fruit’ thing by Haylo Hayley and she said some of the same things as you Drama Kween about the fruit mostly being picked too early and being unripe to explain the ‘rubber-like’ texture. I don’t got much else but I agree with your points and Haylo Hayley’s points and that the recent fruit I’ve ate aren’t rubbery as they’re ripe and therefore real *fruits*.
Selective breeding and GMO do not mean the same thing. Cross breeding strains of a plant to produce fuller fruit, larger flowers, etc have been happening for millennia naturally and through the hand of man. GMO is engineering of a plant/animals “characteristic” by insertion or removal of certain parts of the plant/animals genome. This can be benign outside of the cultivation of plants and it can also lead to cross fertilisation outside of the intended species such as an invasive “weed” becoming immune to the effects of herbicide. Most GMO’s are sterile so seeds have to be bought from the suppliers every season so seeds can’t be saved to plant the next year leaving farmers reliant upon the holder of the “copyright” to the plant. The first genetically modified organism was produced in 1973, it was a bacterium resistant to the antibiotic kanamycin.
I had some of this conversation less than 6hrs ago. It went something like this: OP: “During Pride Month, we remember and give thanks to all who are no longer with us but were part of this movement. Without you, it wouldn’t have been the same; you left footprints that will always be remembered.” Quote tweet: “Eat your ai shit a$sh0le!” (censored for youtube) Me: “All the quotes are saying “AI” but none are pointing out the flaws that point to AI. I use AI all the time as a shadow base to work with.. the hands and eyes, and portions, are often very wrong. What makes this picture AI?” QT: What do you mean lol? Ai steals real artists styles and everyting. And it is so obvius this is ai. Ai looks ugly and no one should use it.” Me: now that isn’t completely fair. Yes, AI is bad if your making money from it, because you’re taking jobs. yes, AI is bad if it uses copyrighted things that doesn’t belong to them. However, if it’s used as a tool, and greatly improved on, if it’s to HELP newer artists, but it Shouldn’t be misused, or even thought of as a “threat” to good artists.. Because AI has a long way to go still. Now, please point out to me, where you see AI?” QT”: Hell nah 😭 you ask where i see ai, well here are the parts of this stuff that doesn’t make sense. And this picture is sooo lifeless that is one of the signs it’s ai. Also ai uses a lot of energy and is very bad for the envoirment but i need to find that thread.” Me: “Wait.. Bad for the environment?? That’s the dumbest argument I have heard.
I have watermelon almost daily😂 im a vegetarian and on the GERD diet, so 95% of my diet is fruits and veggies, and ive never seen any fruit like this. And im from Juneau, Alaska, where everything is brought in by barge (theres no roads in/out, so you have to go there via plane or boat) so all of our produce is atleast a week old by the time it gets to us.
It’d be too exhausting to worry about all the ways life is out to get me. We are all going to be worm food anyway. I’ll eat the lab meat, idc. Thank god my phone listens to me. I forget stuff on an all the time basis and it reminds me I wanted that thing. Vaccines make cause autism? Can’t get double autism so that’s fine, I’m safe. Poke away. Literally. I cannot be bothered to stress over all the stuff going tits up and bonkers nowadays. Going to worry about simpler things and let god with the rest. 😂
If it is a gmo strawberry, so what? GMO research has allowed us to feed more people while reducing the cost of produce. My non organic apples at lidl are 69¢ each meanwhile the organic ones are like $1 each and theyre smaller. I wanted to do GMO research, but i suck at math so i didnt get through school for it
Madam Yappers, food for thought (no pun intended) we had a lot of farm to table knowledge taught to us in primary school, so I feel like we’re a lot more… Food literate? While this is a point you mainly reflected, I feel like this is not the case for a place like the US who doesn’t have any outreach programs to farmers or workers, as well… (Racist undertones cough cough) I genuinely cannot believe there are people older than me (and I’m almost 30, not too old but not a babe anymore) that may have never learned how to tell when fruits are unripe or ripe. Or proper refrigeration and freezing practices for meat. It’s like… Girl… Really??? Just google your problems first.
The chicken really bothers me. Don’t they know they can shred chicken breasts after they are cooked?? The stringy meat before cooking is the same stringy meat after cooking. The freezing and defrosting process just released the connective tissue between the muscle fibers. Just like cooking it will also do. The proteins get denatured when they go through extreme temperatures.
This article is only valid for everyone that lives outside of the US. Our food is pretty much illegal in all of your countries because of the toxic ass ingredients they put in our food. Buying a strawberry at your farmers market is far different than buying a strawberry from Walmart in America. We could only dream of something so fresh. Bill gates just bought an enormous amount of farming land and this man is covering our fruits and veg with wax to preserve them longer but didn’t look into how that would affect the inside of the fruit that would then affect the person eating it. Our food system is horrendous and I would not be surprised things are happening to the fruit because of the chemicals they are using. It’s honestly more believable than the organic label on our food 😂.
Love how people don’t know that green skin avocados last longer than brown skin avocados or the fact that they’re different. Or that frozen watermelon is rubbery along with watermelon produced during a drought. You’re supposed to eat fish that you bought from the store within three days if you refrigerate it. Also it wasn’t in the article but the “rubbery banana” article on tiktok was a article of an unripe plantain.
The fruit and veggies thing is actually true. My mom got avocados that were literally rubber and she doesn’t make articles at all. She brought it up to me before we even heard about these articles. So it’s 100% true Also I don’t see how this is so hard to believe when they literally fuck with our food all the time our food is all chemicals anymore. Even natural things they mess with them
But seriously, it’s a bit weird because when I used to go to the store, I can get a bag of potatoes or avocados or whatever and it would be good for like at least a week, too if it was really fresh or whatever but my mom got potatoes last weekend And we tried to eat some on Wednesday and they were literally so rotten that she picked one up in. It made a popping noise and her fingers into the actual potato. She was grabbing it like normal. Not squeezing or pressing really hard, it was just that soft. And same thing with the avocados. Although they didn’t pop, they squish.
whats scary is, I looked up why the watermelon and stuff was rubbery out of curiosity to the actual reason and the first result google gave me was the caption of an instagram reel saying it was gmo. spoooky! but then I did a little more looking and its probably overripe, underripe, or smthn like that.
I love cooking Salmon, the best time to eat it is when it’s a nice bright pink with the muscle lines clearly visible. I always try to buy sushi-grade since that has always tasted the best, but you should NEVER eat Salmon when it turns Bright Orange, by then it’s rotten and is going to taste terrible if you’re mad enough to eat it when it gets to that point.
Bro, some people really expect strawberries to look like they draw in cartoons? As someone, who growed up in country where having small farm for yourself is normal, we always had strawberries and it still shocks me every time that some people believe that naturally growed strawberries look like this: 🍓
Biologist here Almost everything is genetically modified. This just means genetic splicing was done to make it a tougher plant in someway. Without GMOs, there is absolutely no way there’d be enough food to go around. Genetic engineering however is just breeding something for its traits. A great example are strawberries to be bigger and apples to be sweeter