The Unbelievable History of Strawberries
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- In this video, we take a look at the unbelievable story behind one of the world's favorite fruits - The strawberry.
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Sources and further reading
[1] Darrow, George M. "The Strawberry: History, Breeding, and Physiology." Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1966.
[2] Welsh, Martin. "Strawberries." National Vegetable Society. Archived by Wayback Machine. web.archive.org/web/200808022...
[3] Grubinger, Vern. "History of the Strawberry." The University of Vermont, 2012. www.uvm.edu/vtvegandberry/fac...
[4] "Strawberry: A Brief History." Integrated Pest Management, University of Missouri, 2012. ipm.missouri.edu/meg/2012/5/S...
[5] "Strawberry." Encyclopedia Britannica. www.britannica.com/plant/stra...
[6] Driscoll-Woodford, Heather. "Wimbledon's Strawberries and Cream Has Tudor Roots." BBC News, 23, June, 2010. news.bbc.co.uk/local/surrey/hi...
[7] Bilton, Sam. A Berry Old Tradition: The History of English Strawberries." EnglishHeritage.org, 29 June, 2017. www.english-heritage.org.uk/v...
[8] Bailey, L. H. “Whence Came the Cultivated Strawberry.” The American Naturalist, vol. 28, no. 328, 1894, pp. 293-306. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2451838.
[9] Geggel, Laura. "Why Are Bananas Berries, But Strawberries Aren't?" LiveScience, 12 Jan, 2017.
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[10] Hancock, James & Sjulin, T.M. & Lobos, Gustavo. (2008). Strawberries. 10.1007/978-1-4020-6907-9-13.
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1. I'd like to reiterate - The strawberry is not a berry only by scientific definition. In common use, which came first and is more important, it certainly is a berry, and it is not incorrect to call it one.
2. In the opinions of many, it seems I was wrong! Wild strawberries are considered much more flavorful than their modern domesticated counterparts.
3. If you'd like to know more about why strawberries are called "straw berries", check out this video: czcams.com/video/TfAetZRHCfI/video.html
The culinary definition of a vegetable is anything you wouldn't put in a fruit salad; everything else is a fruit.
The word 'berry' is an Arabic word meaning wild... how could that be Anglo-saxon or Germanic?
@@ibrahimmohamed8601 Probably false cognates
@@ibrahimmohamed8601 The English word berry is derived from Old English berie meaning grape. The Arabic word barr, meaning open land, countryside or wild, was used in Moorish Spain to describe the area outside cities and comes into English, via Spanish, as barrio, meaning suburb or neighborhood.
This would blown my Botany teacher
When I was a child my mother gave me my own flower bed. IN it I planted strawberry plants out of one of those six pack starters from the local feed store. The berries weren't large like supermarket strawberries but a smaller variety. Every year there were more plants until the flower bed was completely full of strawberry plants. That was 40 years ago and that bed still has strawberry plants growing in it, providing a sweet treat to birds and humans alike.
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I love that you still enjoy your childhood flower bed- strawberries and let the birds have some as well!
Love it!
If the runners would have been continuously cut off instead of letting the plants self-propagate the berries would have grown larger, as the energy would have gone to the fruit instead of the runners
@@searchindex3438 imo I'd prefer a bunch of small berries vs a few large ones. It just makes it all the more tragic when that delicious berry you'd been going for turns out to be partially eaten on the back side
Eggplant is berries and tomato is berries so eggplant parmesan is just berries and cream
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Jesus said:"Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons.." -Matthew 7 How did that "man" know that more than 2 thousand years AFTER HE DIED; ALL THAT WILL HAPPEN, There are so "Many" christian religions today, doing exactly what He prophesied more than 2000 years ago.
"Remember the former things, those of long ago;
I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning" -Isaiah 46 czcams.com/video/U7Eh3hkF_YU/video.html
I'll stick with my berries and fresh cream,thank you!
Bananas parmesan. Sounds delicious
Somewhere an itialian granny rolled over in her bed n murmured no no it's no fruit on fruit and cream no no. Instant nightmares from poking at the cuisine.
Intrusive comments that should land you in jail: 😩💀
I once crossbred a strawberry that had hideously shaped fruit, but a brilliant taste. I propagated it through runners as the seeds were always infertile. It was a truly remarkable cultivar that I grew for many years, up until we had a very cold winter which reached -30. The whole population of plants didn't survive and i've never tasted a better large strawberry since.
Did you try to use spells to bring it back from the dead?
So sorry for your loss 😭
I've had misshapen strawberries too. The cause was a mineral deficiency according to Google.
I'm curious but are you saying that just the seeds were infertile on your "Franken-berry" which would make it a ever bearing if it had runners or am I wrong..?!
@@bri0013 you are correct, but the cold killed them all :(
As a child some 50 years ago, and while exploring a hilly pasture, I came across a lone strawberry plant growing on the banks of a creek, and on it was a single small strawberry, so of course I popped it into my mouth and can still remember the intense flavor. Unfortunately, the strawberries sold in stores today are the size of golf balls but have practically no flavor. It was as if the flavor of 100 of today's golf ball sized strawberries had been crammed into that one small strawberry.
This is my complaint about many fruits these days: way oversized and underflavored! There is also the consideration that I want to eat the orange, not marry it: it is a snack, a dessert, NOT a meal.
That is GMO's for you. God did not even want you to mess with genetics in the animal and plant world. GMO's do not have the nutritional value either. The Bible teaches not to cross breed cows or plant two different kinds of plants of the same species in the same field. One example was given, such as the grape in the Bible. Why? To prevent cross pollination from the pollinators, such as bees, to prevent the hybrids. The A1A2 milk that comes from the Holstein cow that is predominately sold, came about by dairy farmers crossbreeding over 2000 years ago in Northern Europe. It is not healthy for our bodies. The A2A2 is what is healthy. Southern Europe have cows that produce and in the USA we have the Guernsey which 90% of them are A2-A2 and Jerseys (which have Guernsey in them) are 60% A2-A2. I also found out that the Highland cow is predominately A2-A2. It is believed that the early Scottish used them for both milk and meat.
I recently quit my construction job of 20 years to become a kitchen gardener for a boutique hotel. I grew some strawberries from seed out of curiosity, a simple process. I used cheap strawberry seeds from a hardware shop. The flavour was astonishingly intense. The issue with supermarket strawberries is that they’re picked whilst light green to withstand transport and warehousing. Let them ripen on the plant and they’re incredible, but you have maybe 36 hours to eat them before they’re over-ripe. Presumably there’s a sweet spot when you can harvest and perhaps refrigerate them and you’d get perhaps three days; still completely incompatible with modern logistics.
Store strawberries not picked early. For almost any berry or fruit, if you want great taste, grow it yourself, or maybe buy from a farmer's market where they pick and sell the same day.
@@retiefgregorovich810 I do grow my own. I grow herbs, fruits and edible flowers for a 5-star hotel. And store ones most certainly are picked earlier, for the reasons l gave. The other factor is water. If you water strawberries more, they grow faster but lack taste and don’t turn a vibrant red. Since they’re sold by weight, big watery ones grown faster make more economic sense from a farmer’s point of view. The ones l grow taste like candy and look like nail polish, because they’re grown indoors (where l can control the water) in a mix of thermophilic compost, manure, seaweed pellets and worm castings. Most are necessarily grown outdoors at the mercy of the rain, and they’re drenched constantly with pesticides (nerve toxin) because they’re just bags of sugars, and everything from single- celled bacteria up to insects love sugar. 🍓
In my childhood, Dad was big on native edibles. Our camping trips involved us learning the edibles around us and we'd gather salad for dinner. Among the faves was the wild strawberry. Little, puckery, strong flavored, but so awesome. Watercress, wild onions, various greens, berries and whatever else ended up as salad. Wasn't a bad way to be raised.
My dad taught me a lot about foraging too. Really good growing up like that. Too bad it was in Michigan and I live in VA now because I can't hand as much of it down to mine. Some but it doesn't all translate.
Whereabouts were you that you found all of these in the same area? Sounds amazing
Wild strawberries are delicious. I once picked them in the south of France and they're so much sweeter than farm grown
high desert side of Washington State.... Colville Indian Reservation. We are "Reznecks"
Yeah, we were po' folk. We gathered berries of all sorts in the fall, mushrooms a couple times a year, hunted, dug roots, ate greens from dandelion to mustard greens and nettles. Mom made 7 kinds of wild berry jams and jellies in the Fall that sold like crazy come Xmas. Wasn't glamorous, but we learned all sorts of fall back foods in case of emergencies.
I would definitely say that wild ”woodland strawberries” are far better tasting than cultivated strawberries. Just as with raspberries the wild ones are smaller but so much more flavorful.
That is certainly the case here it Scotland. The wee wild strawberries are intense! And the raspberries don't compare at all! Whilst they don't get to the gargantuan proportions of engineered fruit, they do still get fairly large. Both have so much more flavour than the cultivated fruit. Especially if they've had plenty sunshine.
Once you've tasted wild berries, store-bought taste so flavourless in comparison. Love finding patches of those little guys.
I do agree!
Nothing will ever beat the Woodland Strawberry!!!! I was kinda heartbroken when he said they're less sweet? The cultivated ones don't taste like anything in comparison
@@Emil-Antonowsky came here to say the same, in Italy both wild raspberries and wd strawberries are so much better, altho I heard in Schotland are insane
I had always believed that that strawberry got it's English name from the way it was grown. The plants are grown in rows and straw is banked up either side of the row so that the fruit is kept off the dirt and away from slugs. It gives the appearance of fruit growing from the straw.
Interesting to hear an alternative etymology.
In sweden we carry them while picking, by treading them onto a straw. That's what we learn that the name is from.🤷♀️
I remember when I was a kid I was served "wild strawberries" and they were tiny compared to normal ones you get at the store. The odd thing is, you said the original varieties weren't as flavorful, but I swear these things, while small, packed soooo much more flavor. I wish I knew where to get whatever it was I was served.
Because of hydroponics and size manipulation.. My garden ones are smaller and taste better than market ones too :)
@@TRAZ316 ahhhh ok. Gimme!!
wander around the forests of Oregon/Idaho and you'll find plenty
i had the same experience in vt. a few years ago tiny but really strong flavor .
Go to wild places in Ontario in mid to late June look for red tinged triangle leaves close to the ground, tinny little wild strawberry everywhere.. it will take you a long time to pick a jar of jam.. but it's worth it!! . I got 9 jars this year.. took about 3days to pick.. cost me 33 dolars a jar in labour. So it's hard to buy.. I think some Mennonite markets here in Ontario may have some.. but it's the last two weeks in June and that's it. for the year.
My wife is from Sweden. When we'd go for walks in the forests there, she'd snap off a piece of straw, and slide a wild strawberry onto it to save for later. She'd have 10" of berries on a single straw! Her father taught her thus. Many old Swedes confirmed learning it from their parents. She thinks this is what Vikings did when they came to the UK and that is how the "straw-berry" got its name.
That sounds reasonable. The Vikings certainly had a big impact on the English language.
You can't go leaving those berry straws strewn about, or you'll be wasting your not-real-berries!
I'm finnish and I've done that my whole life. I think it's probably a Nordic thing
They are very large in Sweden, they are called "jordgubbe" which means "land's little old man"
@@arriagatwo4544 Jordgubbe is the name for the domesticated berries, the small wild berries are called Smultron in Swedish.
Hey! I'm from Finland and we have wild forest strawberries here, and I'd argue they're far sweeter than cultivated ones, you can smell them from a mile away, man I love wild strawbs 🥲 I also wonder if they're called strawberries because of the way people pick(/ed) them. While foraging we put all other berries in buckets and baskets except wild strawberries because they get mushed so easily, and thread them on... well, a straw. That's what I was taught to do as a kid by grandma and it's been like that for basically forever AFAIK. 😊
Really? That’s interesting. I can not picture how you can do that? How do you thread them on a straw? Thank you.
@@toneenorman2135 Hey! They're so soft and little you can usually just poke a slightly stiffer straw/grass thingy through them :)
Yep. I saw the same thing in Sweden.
Crazy! Now I know.
You're talking about Smultron right? Because at first I thought of Cloudberries(Hjortron) when you described how soft they are haha. I learned the same thing about straws from watching Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn as a kid. it's the tastiest wild treat to find here in Sweden by far. There's so much to eat but when I find some smultron that's not in a ditch where everyone's walking with dogs or cars are throwing all kinds of dirts on them, truly wild ones, I instantly become a child for a moment again.
When I was little in Norway many years ago we used to pick wild strawberries, take a straw, picked many small berries and thread them onto straws = strawberries. I think that might be how they got their name as the wild strawberries were much smaller than the farmed strawberries so putting them on a straw was a good way of collecting them.
in Switzerland they are called "Heubeeren" like "hay-berries" and I always thought straw or hay in the name is because while growing, they should not touch the wet soil otherwise they spoil and so to cultivate, the fields are covered in straw or hay to provide a dry environment for the berries to rest on and ripe.
I recall reading something similar regarding the English name 'strawberry', that straw was used while the berries were grown.
A friend once gave me what she claimed was a wild strawberry from her back yard. It was so packed with the most wonderful strawberry flavor that it was like candy. I instantly developed a deep hatred of all commercial strawberry.
I want a few of those plants (if you still have them lol).
I'm a Southeast Asian and I could never understand the Western love of commercial strawberries. (Like, the "sweetness" and intensity of flavor often don't live up to their marketing hype.) The only strawberries I considered sweet and flavorful were the wild ones I got to eat on a visit to an Italian chef's home in Rome.
@@tachiebillano6244 Thank you. Very informative. Those of us in the west would do well to realize how much our so-called free markets are controlled by those who control our minds.
Would be nice to see a do-it-yourself on this topic. Somebody's got to know how to grow these things.
We call those "Walderdbeeren" which translates to "Wood Strawberries" and they grow wild in the woods.
When I was a little kid, my family moved into a house whose entire back yard was carpeted with wild strawberries, and also had a raspberry briar. It was like having a candy store right outside. They seemed to be nearly endless in quantity, and were quite delicious.
Further, not far from the house, about 10 minutes walk, were huge patches of low bush blueberries. I hated picking them, but they were so so good.
Lucky
I spent some of my childhood in a village which also had something similar. Except they were black berries, and lots and lots of stinging nettles everywhere. We had to beat down a path using sticks to make a pretty cool secret passage around the village. We never got hungry playing, with the endless supply of berries along the way.
Probably not wild if you had raspberries, strawberries, and blueberries near to each other. Someone probably planted them.
Sounds like the country I grew up in
@@mediocreman2 The raspberries may have been planted but the strawberries were very very small, so definitely wild. The blueberries were in a clearing in a wooded area, and were also tiny, not the larger high bush kind.
Interesting. When I was a kid I remember wild strawberries being way sweeter than grown strawberries.
When I was a kid we grew three varieties, blakemore, aroma, and everbearing. The first two were grown for sale the everbearing were in the home garden. The blakemore ripened earlier, were smaller, and not as sweet. The aroma were quite large and very sweet and flavorful. The Ozarks had a bunch of strawberry growers because they don't need extremely fertile soil and can be grown in our rocky fields.
I didn't know Mexico was the world's 3rd producer of strawberries but it makes sense, whenever my family goes on a roadtrip we always stop to buy strawberries directly from the farmers
Mexico and california took all the strawberry production from Oregon and Washington when Drip irrigation and certain heat resistant varieties were became a thing. By the late 80s Oregons export strawberry industry was gone!
@@ForageGardener Well, that makes me sad. I grew up in Salem OR and left in 1983. I remember picking strawberries in the summer.
I miss the oranges & the big bottles of honey
I live in Northern Mexico and certain times of year the street markets get inundated with strawberries and they can be quite cheap. It's hard to eat 2 pounds of strawberries in a couple days :) I need to learn to bake a strawberry pie.
I'd love to see a multi-part piece on mushrooms throughout history.
Mushrooms are mysterious and alien-like
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Jesus said:"Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons.." -Matthew 7 How did that "man" know that more than 2 thousand years AFTER HE DIED; ALL THAT WILL HAPPEN, There are so "Many" christian religions today, doing exactly what He prophesied more than 2000 years ago.
"Remember the former things, those of long ago;
I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning" -Isaiah 46 czcams.com/video/U7Eh3hkF_YU/video.html
Yaaaassss and yesterday I saw a meme screenshotting a article about how mushrooms can communicate with each other through pheromones I think.
yes! the origins of culturally significant mushrooms would make for a great video
That would be awesome, I think orange would be a good one too
Here in Mexico, one of the most important regions for straw berries is Irapuato in guanajuato, my family from the side of my father lives in an area near and some of my relatives work on the strawberry fields.
Do you get to eat them? Buy them? Art they expensive there ?
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The word 'fraga' mentioned here in the area of Romania is actually used to describe a very small, wild fruit which is incredibly flavoured. I used to have them in summers as I would go pick them in the forest. We have another word, 'capsuna', for the strawberry which you can buy from the store.
En español "fresa"
Im curious about the history of Mangos. They are huge in India and South America so Im dying to learn more. Loved Strawberries History
I second this!
Mangoes?
@@randomyoutuber8227 Mangos. It's borrowed from another language, so it doesn't need to be anglicised with an e, just like how we spell bongos and not bongoes.
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Domesticated from plants that were fibrous and taste like turpentine.
Food history is so interesting. It's incredible how much history there is behind something as simple as the strawberry.
We should thank the first people who had the nerve to try all of the fruits and vegetables we eat, now!
@@diane9247 For me, cheese is the big mystery. I thank whoever it was that first tried it.
@@simongross3122I heartily agree and second that!
Fun fact: The strawberry in Sweden is known as "jordgubbe." "Jord" means "dirt," and "gubbe" means "old man," which I think describes the strawberry quite accurately.
So in Sweden strawberries are considered Dirty Old men?
@@TightNinja Yep. Makes sense, though, right, considering what they do to one's mouth? But Swedish strawberries are SO much better than American ones. :)
That ending was hilarious and so relatable. Thanks for teaching me something new today.
The only thing wrong with this, the sweetest most delicious strawberry I ever tasted was a little wild strawberry in North Dakota. It was like 5 of our modern strawberries packed into one little one.
If you ever have the chance... go outside the USA and eat a fresh local strawberry.
The ones I ate in the States were huge but kind of 'meh'.
The ones I introduced my American wife to here in Belgium made her moan with delight
Think of it this way, just like canned tuna doesn't taste anything as fresh tuna does so shouldn't straw berried flavored things (including strawberry jam) taste anything like actually fresh strawberries. If it does then your strawberries are crap.
I have to agree! The sweetest strawberries are the wild ones that we kids used to pick in border country, in the forest glades, in common ground that alternately belongs to either France or Germany. They are called Fraise du Bois, literally berries of the forest. About the size of a child's pinky nail.
The sweetest, most tasty berries ever.
I grow strawberries and the smallest ones are almost always the sweetest. I have around 8-9 different varieties in my gardens.
I grew up in Alberta and they would grow in the bush and sometimes on lawns and they were so tiny, but so tasty.
It's the same strawberry mentioned in the video. The Virginia Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana) is native in North Dakota. (Lots of North American plants have "Virginia" in their names because the names come from colonial times that predate the states of Virginia and North Dakota.)
As a Chilean myself I highly appreciate this video. We use "frutilla (small fruit)" instead of "fresa" here.
Edit: Chilean "frutillas" develop more sugar when get their pollination done by native wild bees.
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Jesus said:"Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons.." -Matthew 7 How did that "man" know that more than 2 thousand years AFTER HE DIED; ALL THAT WILL HAPPEN, There are so "Many" christian religions today, doing exactly what He prophesied more than 2000 years ago.
"Remember the former things, those of long ago;
I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning" -Isaiah 46 czcams.com/video/U7Eh3hkF_YU/video.html
Por favor podrías decirme nombres de platillos típicos chilenos hechos con frutillas, quisiera prepararlos y probarlos en México.
Un saludo fraternal al pueblo chileno.
@@xolotlmexihcah4671 Las comemos con crema o en tarta, no somos muy imaginativos con ellas, excepto cuando van con vino (Borgoña especialmente), espumante, o incluso aguardiente.
In Albania we use "Luleshtrydhe"
Lule = Flower
Shtrydhe = Squeeze
My ancestors probably liked to make strawberry marmalades
Frutita y frutilla son diferentes frutita seria para fruta chica pero frutilla na que ver con fruta chica. Aqui en chile se comen con vino y en postres
My grandfather used to grow strawberries, but what we used to love to do at the end of summer was go to the forest and pick lingonberries. They made the best jam and the best "saft" (squash or cordial like). Also super high in anti-toxicants and all the good stuff. Its like a super strawberry but easier to grow and get large yields 👍
Sounds incredibly good. Americans don't know how many good European berries they're missing out on!
My grandpa, who passed away earlier this year at the age of 97, Grew acres of strawberries when I was a kid. People often traveled more than 100 miles for his strawberries. They were absolutely delicious. Store-bought strawberries just don't hold a candle to Fresh grown. Great video!
I am growing the wild strawberries which are native to my home in South East Scotland. By feeding them, I get big wild strawberries. They are very sweet and packed with flavour. I have sent runners by post to friends.
What do you feed them?
I also grow wild strawberries in my garden in Belgium - from one plant that I took from the forest near my home years ago. Though I also grow "regular" strawberries, they just can't beat the taste and flavour of the wild ones. Also I just ignore strawberries outside season; the ones we can buy all year round, artificially grown in greenhouses, are just as tasteful as a glass of tap water, just not worth spending my money.
Here is a bit of background on the role of strawberries in Iroquois society - told to me by an Iroquois ambassador who visited my high school social studies class: The Iroquois veneration of the strawberr was based on a number of thing, only four of which I can remember: 1) It was the first berry to appear in spring, therefore, it's appearance was considered a good omen that winter was over (and at a more practical level, if your winter food stores were running low, the strawberry was Nature's first line of winter relief!) 2) The strawberry symbolically represents a virtuous existence because it's seeds are on the outside - it is not concealing anything. 3) It resembles the shape of the human heart (after watching this video and seeing how the heirloom strawberry resembled a biological heart more than the "heart shape", I have a new appreciation for the authenticity of this sensibility). 4) Strawberries float. I can't remember exactly why that was special to the Iroquois, but not having the benefit of Archemdies principle, I would venture to say that things that could float has a general sense of mystery around them. Perhaps the hollow center of the strawberry was using as a way to explain why a hollowed out log would float as a dugout canoe. There might have been a fifth reason, but the years have been many and I can't think of any more now. If you anyone has direct knowledge of this subject to add, I hope you will reply to this post. I had always wanted to visit the resettlement that the ambassador came from, which was portrayed as an exquisite type of commune, but I think it was lost to the NYS penchant for casino-izing native American communities in the 1990s.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge 🤟
Great video, thank you. I appreciate your thorough use of sources and giving credit to the historical figures who made discoveries or observations about strawberries. Really cool.
I didn't knew i wanted to know about this but you got me hooked in less than a minute.
I had wondered about certain fruits and vegetables being introduced to different continents through trade (like potatos and coffee).
But never the strawberry itself.
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Jesus said:"Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons.." -Matthew 7 How did that "man" know that more than 2 thousand years AFTER HE DIED; ALL THAT WILL HAPPEN, There are so "Many" christian religions today, doing exactly what He prophesied more than 2000 years ago.
"Remember the former things, those of long ago;
I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning" -Isaiah 46 czcams.com/video/U7Eh3hkF_YU/video.html
I love these 'History of Food' videos. I'm always happy when one comes across my feed.
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Jesus said:"Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons.." -Matthew 7 How did that "man" know that more than 2 thousand years AFTER HE DIED; ALL THAT WILL HAPPEN, There are so "Many" christian religions today, doing exactly what He prophesied more than 2000 years ago.
"Remember the former things, those of long ago;
I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning" -Isaiah 46 czcams.com/video/U7Eh3hkF_YU/video.html
@@Fireoflearning I leave that up to you. I'm just happy to put a few dollars in the jar of someone who makes content I enjoy.
Also, this one caught my attention considering I live in South Texas, and a small town down here called Poteet just recently had their Strawberry Festival. I don't know if you were aware of that annual event, but the timing was near perfect.
Keep up the great content.
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@@Fireoflearning
I Love This So Much.
Thank You🍓
I was told that my great grandfather was the first farm owner to farm strawberries in Wisconsin. He had a 'model' farm where people trying to learn agriculture would visit and work with him. I never knew him, but I love strawberries. In an old community garden in the Midwest, we had 'wild' teeny strawberries that showed up in our garden. They were very sweet and flavorful - nothing like strawberries in the stores.
Wild strawberries less sweet? Some of the sweetest fruit I ever had was strawberries growing wild in the Colorado mountains. Conversely, most supermarket strawberries I've had were bred for shelf life and size, not sweetness, and plucked while underripe intentionally (strawberries should only be plucked when completely ripe; you might think they can "ripen" by sitting a room temperature in your house for a while, but really they only grow softer, not sweeter). They were some of the blandest strawberries I've had. Finally, if you eat strawberries too early in the season, they're often less sweet.
Edit: Fire of Learning conceded after several people commented, which just raises my respect for him! So sick of CZcamsrs who can never admit they're wrong about anything. . . . So props to Fire of Learning.
My amazing little grandson calls them "strawbabies!" 🍓👶🧡
Babe, wake up. The Unbelievable History of Strawberrys just dropped
Such a great video! A share of history, a slice of science, a pinch of anecdotes and a zest of humor. Instructive, entertaining and very well edited. Great work, I'm in! Thanks!
Oh, I love things like this! Weird Fruit Explorer and Rare Seeds also make great fruit/seed/veg history videos!
Subscribed. :D
Mad respect for the people who created the strawberries
Hey-Zeus and his magical stick.
I used to eat wild strawberries like a grazing cow when I was a kid in Ohio . They grow everywhere. 😁👍 Unlike the Title of the video. Strawberries were not created, but merely modified to grow bigger.
thank you for the clarification
I think what was meant by the suggestion that strawberries were "created" is that the garden strawberry, specifically, is a hybrid that exists because of human cultivation rather than a species that occurs naturally in the wild. The same is true of bananas and a number of citrus fruits.
Modern strawberries are the product of conventional plant breeding (crosses between different types followed by selection among the progeny and clonal propagation of "The best").
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I’ve never had better strawberries than the ones my granddad grew in his garden in Illinois when I was a kid. Quite a bit smaller than the ones found in stores, they were dark red, juicy and so flavorful. The fresh were amazing on shortcake and my grandma made the best jam to last most of the winter.
That's because fully ripe strawberries only last 1 day. So you will almost never find them in stores. Most of the sweetness pushes into the berry on the last day, hence why store bought are almost always sour.
@@sweetkitty2798 are you attempting to imply that strawberry growers haven't done what seemingly every other commercialized fruit grower has done, and jam packed their product full of chemicals and steroids to get a large crop at the expense of quality?
My father and grandfather both grew strawberries in their backyards when I was growing up. I can assure you, as with this poster, they were different - in size and flavor.
Based on your argument, if it were simply picking the berries before they were ripe, shouldn't they also be smaller (not larger), as they should be less developed?
Technically speaking the best strawberries grow up north, when there's a lot of daylight but the temperature at night stays at reasonable level. Soil also is important. Here we have almost 18 hours of daylight and relatively loose, sandy soil. And excellent strawberries. Best I've had. But I personally also collect some wild ones as well. They are noticeably different, to the point we consider them different "berries" altogether.
I found strawberries actually don't need much light. A couple of mine are directly under bigger plants and get almost 0 sunlight, yet they still produce.
(alt of Sweet Kitty)
@@moef.5326 0 direct sunlight. Well, it's hard to compare without samples ;)
I adore strawberries 🍓 I decorated my entire kitchen in them and grow as many as possible each year. Thanks for this! Love these Food History videos!!
This was amazing. Also, the timing of your humor is perfect. You've got another subscriber sir. Also, how was that ice cream and did it melt?
Great story my friend. Thank you for your time and sharing the information.
I did some digging around, and it turns out I’m a direct descendant of the Fraser family, including the guy mentioned at around 8:20. My grandparent’s last names are Frazier (an Americanized version of Fraser/Frazer/Fraisier, and we even have a coat of arms! The earliest member of the family I could find went back to Sir Simon Fraser in 1306. When our family migrated to North America in the 1700s, the last name was changed slightly. Family is crazy!
My great great grandpa in 1844 took a steamboat from New Orleans up to Cainsville which is now called Council Bluffs. He found a group of Mormons bought a hand cart and waited until the river froze to cross into Omaha and then proceeded to walk the mormon trail all through Nebraska and Colorado to Salt lake city Utah over 1200 miles dragging his hand cart with all of his possessions. Then around 1846 there was some kind of uprising there and he left walked back to Colorado and built the first log cabin in the county just north of Denver that is now a museum.
Wow! That's so cool!
You are not related to him, the scottish english frasers are different from the french fraisiers.
@@noddybebetrain9896 they are not. Clan Fraser is believed to have originated from Plantagenet Anjou in France (which a simple search on Wikipedia shows). They are directly related to each other. Please don’t try to disprove my family lineage.
@@markify8019 you're not special. stop trying so hard, that's so american.
Yo FoL, glad to see you're getting more comfortable adding small bits of comedy in your work. It's very subtle, but provides a good chuckle with your timing. Glad to see yer enjoying yourself dude.
There was an empty field behind my home that had a couple of varieties of wild strawberries. Most were the smaller, round woodland variety, and there was a small patch under some trees that were a bit larger. I enjoyed them for a few years when I was young. Eventually a neighbor started sending her kids to pick them all every year. There are homes in that field now and it looks like one homeowner has discovered the patch of larger wild strawberries and preserved their ecosystem.
Nicely done. Loved the images too.
I live in a river valley in the Carpathians Mountains in Romania and we cultivate garden strawberries but also around June there can be found wild strawberries in the woods nearby which as shown in the video are smaller. I always thought that people took those wild strawberries, cultivate them and used selection in order to get big fruits. Thanks for such an informative video !
Had wild strawberries in Romania (Transylvania) more than 6 decades ago. They were much smaller and more flavourful.
Also, there were two varieties of wild strawberries - fragi, in the forests and more delicate and capsuni, which also were cultivated
My grandfather was a strawberry farmer in the 1930's and 1940's here in the Miami, FL area, along with tomatoes.....his harvest time for both plants....November through March
Wow, growing strawberries in florida cant be easy!
@@ForageGardener LOL are you joking ?
@@ForageGardener LOLOLOL I love it when people assume they know things they don't.....DOH.....Florida has the 2nd largest strawberry industry in the US (behind only California) and hosts the largest strawberry festival in the US every year in Plant City since 1930....Florida is also the 4th largest dairy state....many people assume that the only industry in Florida is tourism.....you'd be wrong....everything grows here, mostly farmed vegetables in the Winter
Southern Hemisphere harvest season . 👍
@@davidarundel6187 LOL Florida isn't in the Southern hemisphere LOLOLOL
I watched your watermelon video and decided to check out your other videos. The ending of this video had me smashing the subscribe button! I love your sense of humor!!!
Hahah love your videos the ending was extremely funny keep up the amazing content
Near my grandparent's farm in Western Oregon were wild strawberries which grew in an area on a steep hillside in the forest which was very difficult to get to. As a child we used to go to extreme efforts to get to that area and pick those small but very flavorful berries, amusing that we would go to such effort for strawberries, since on our farm we grew about 25 acres of cultivated strawberries, nice berries, but WITHOUT the GREAT flavor of those wild berries!
You did lose me at the eggplant.
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My favorite science teacher was Ms Berry and now things make sense.
I grew up in Chile and I’d eat wild strawberries when I found them. They were often sour but incredibly tasty if very ripe. That’s been my experience eating wild strawberries in the US as well. They’re both so tiny though (maybe the size of a small blueberry) and barely produce fruit in comparison to commercial varieties!
Thanks for your interesting and lovely video
Perhaps they're called Strawberry because in order to overwinter them in cold climates you cover them with straw to protect them during snow/cold seasons
That's what I heard as well.
I used to grow strawberries. We would use straw to keep the fruit clean while developing. Usually the fruit is too heavy for the plant to hold above ground. But the name is probably just a coincidence.
That's a good theory, but the problem is the name predates cultivation
@@Fireoflearning ah true, i never even thought of this! derp. very interesting though.
@@comtedesaintgermain9269 I was surprised as well
When I was visiting my cousins in Sweden, they said we should pick strawberries and string them on a piece of straw, because if you put them in the basket they can get spoiled. This is why I think they are called “strawberries”, because you use straw to gather them
lol.
They are called smultron in swedish, the wild kind that isn't jordgubbar.
Thank you for the informative video, it’s very thoroughly researched. I want to point something out: in Chile, strawberries are called “frutillas”, which literally means “little fruit“. After watching your video, I assume it’s because for the ancient mapuches the strawberry was just a “little fruit”. Most of the rest of Latin America calls strawberries “fresas”, as you pointed out.
Informative and quite humorous!
The woods have changed. Years ago when I was a preteen living on rural Long Island little wild strawberries grew locally. They were very small, fragrant and delicious. Because of their small size it took extra time to pick our favorite treat. We found them in between stands of trees, where there would be some open areas. These had various wild grasses and other wild flowers grew, such as milkweed. Many areas also had brambles with blackberries...it was a happy time for me. Today you can find seeds for the same wild strawberry and grow them in pots or your garden.
I found ripe wild strawberries just weeks ago. Yes, they were delicious.
Truly happy times. Nowadays ppl simulate them in games and movies
I enjoy your humor and I really enjoyed this video so thank you !
Your ending is priceless. THANKYOU. Glad to meet you. The tiny Alpine variety that do well with neglect are like candy flavored and sweet perfection. From what I have observed they like to hang out. Mine got happier crowded up in a planter. Better yet to be in the tall strawberry pot with its pockets.
Best strawberry I ever had was down in Chile, found it in the southern woods of Patagonia. It was pretty small and completely white, absolutely delicious
White strawberries are not ripe. Lol. They most certainly do not taste delicious. Lol. I have strawberry bushes. They take 5 to 6 years just to have a crop. I know what I'm talking about. You do not. I don't think you ever visited chili. I think your story is a lie. You're a liar. An internet liar. A CZcams comment liar. You giant liar. Go eat your non- ripe fake strawberries that you think are full of flavor. Lol.
That's a wild strawberry 🍓
Strawberry cornbread, interesting. I'm a raspberry person but I do like strawberries. This the season where I am. This was interesting, thank you.
The ending was a bit weird because it didn't seem to fit. It abruptly went from talking about strawberries to an ice cream truck. But hey, if you like it, more power to you.
People do honey and cornbread so it makes sense, I want to try it!
The ice cream truck had strawberry ice cream on board.
I think someone heard the 70's album "Don't crush that dwarf, hand me the pliers" a few too many times. The end of that album is about the same.
Here’s a “raspberry” for ya’! 👅 “Pbbbbbbtttttthhhhh!” (Sorry, couldn’t resist).
@@princessmarlena1359 🤣
That was easily the crème de la crème of CZcams outros. Well done, my friend, you have gained my like and subscribe for your effortless, nonchalant humor 🎉
This video was great, thanks!
My city-raised wife was in the Ozark country with me when I came across wild strawberry’s. I picked several and convinced her to try one. She reluctantly did and her eyes opened wide with delight! They are about twice as sweet as commercial ones, despite being small. She was soon grazing on them like a cow!🤣
Like a cow...lol
Please, never make a comparison between your wife and a cow. I’m telling you as a concerned citizen.
For the love o mike....
Interesting, I'd say they are less sweet than the commercial ones, they have an interesting but different flavour. I think commercial varieties vary a lot though. Some might be tasteless, but some are incredibly sweet.
Strawberries accompanied by cream might have derived from the French...but the cream was slightly fermented (don't boo until you've tried it). The fruit is sliced and layered with sugar, best if refrigerated overnight, and served with Creme Fraiche...This recipe is especially good with not so ripe/sweet store bought fruit.
A coworker had me try them with the crème fraiche and then dipped in brown sugar… sooooo good
Balsamic vinegar is a weird but good thing to dip strawberries in. Not the thicker stuff, the normally liquid balsamic vinegar.
A most interesting and informative presentation. Inspired ending, too.
Delightful narration.
I just wanna say after watching your videos for years, you never fail to get me interested in your videos, even the ones that sound boring or ridiculous always get me to watch it and made it very interesting, good job for always making very entertaining and fun videos, love your channel and keep going!
I love these Food History episodes!
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Jesus said:"Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons.." -Matthew 7 How did that "man" know that more than 2 thousand years AFTER HE DIED; ALL THAT WILL HAPPEN, There are so "Many" christian religions today, doing exactly what He prophesied more than 2000 years ago.
"Remember the former things, those of long ago;
I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning" -Isaiah 46 czcams.com/video/U7Eh3hkF_YU/video.html
Your video was very educational ~Your desire to catch that ice-cream truck was ABSOLUTELY the behavior of genius!!!! You earned our SUB!!!
Thumbs up to you finding a way to put a touch of humour into your videos! 👍👍
Interesting! I’m Russia we called the tiny wild strawberries “zemlyanika” which will translate to “earth berry”. Didn’t know Germanic languages also called them that! Who influenced who I wonder.
Germans influenced ... The language let's you know this.
Well Rome and Greek language and troops were in both areas as well
why does it translate to klubnika?
@@blakerackley8874 do you mean why we call the cultivates fruit “klubnika”? I don’t really know. We have two different names for the fruit. Klubnika for cultivated and zemlyanika for tiny wild variety.
@@AlishN7 That is fascinating, thank you for helping me understand it better.
I found wild strawberries in the steppes of Kazakhstan... One day I looked at a plot of land no more than a couple of meters square and found tiny tulips, several primroses, grasses, and tiny fully formed strawberries with incredible flavor...
The end 😂😂 very interesting. And instant subscribe for the ending!
How in earth I got to watch this little documentary about... strawberries... I don't know, but after about 30 sec. I got stuck and watched it all the way through!!! it was super interesting and your voice is really cool! thanks a lot :)
It is too bad that 90%+ of strawberries available in the grocery store are tasteless, red objects.
GMO
My dad works in the strawberries industry. It's all about the variety. The big players plant a bland variety, most likely because it does good in long-distance travel. My dad grows sweater types.
@@sazon860gmo isn't the reason. It may be how some seeds used it but gmo itself isn't the cause
If you refrigerate them they lose flavor but if you don't they're spoiled by tomorrow
It's unfortunate that you think you can get fresh, ripe, tasteful fruit at a grocery store for a reasonable price year round. It's people like you who make that idea marketable.
if you have ever eaten any of those small strawberries, you will know that they are all actually very good. I am actually annoyed about calling them less sweet when they are being compared to the ones you might buy from the store and have a good chance of being tasteless.
Must have to do with the variety, here in upstate NY their tasteless or even bitter
@@ericschulze5641 there is a plant with fruit that look similar to strawberries, but more perfect looking and held upright to the top of the plant rather than hanging down.
those are watery with an offputting taste.
real wild strawberries taste lovely, although i wouldn"t call them sweeter than farmed strawberries, but certainly more intensely strawberry flavoured.
Years ago, I was walking along the sandy shoulder of a road in Maine (USA) when I noticed that little strawberries were growing on the road's shoulder. I tasted a few, and they were the sweetest and most flavorful strawberries that I've ever eaten.
Thanks for the knowledge
Great content and the ending was good lol
This man's exceptional ability to narrate and using it to make anything interesting is amazing. I'd listen to him for hours talking.
Nothing on Earth comperes to what to translate in English as Earthberry (Russian: Земляника), small (size of a medium blueberry) wild strawberry, grown in the forests of the central Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Can’t be cultivated. Nothing on Earth compares in the complexity of an aroma, texture and taste... It is divine. It is a perfection and it will cost you... If you are ever in that part of the world, make an effort to find some jam on the farmers market. Ones you try it, your will never be the same..😀
Sounds delicious! In Afrikaans (South Africa) we call them aarbeie, which means earth + berries.
I wonder what the fuck did Finland think when naming it mansikka.
@@LV-ni3qs Well, they don't speak an Indo-European language in Finland right?
Just plant a few in your garden or balcony. If the climate is right they grow very easily and even spread very well.
@@LV-ni3qs Eh. It's basically earthberry in Finnish as well. That's the prevalent theory. It's just that "berry" isn't strictly written in all the names of berries, just like it's not in lingonberry ("puolukka") or bilberry ("mustikka"). But you see how those words are ending, just like "mansikka", with that vowel+kka (-kka being technically diminutive). "Herukka" (currant) is one more to add to the list. "Vatukka" is the genus Rubus, which includes raspberries and blackberries. The beginning of the word "mansikka" comes from "maa", "mantu" or something like that, which is, surprise surprise, earth.
This is a more sensible history than the short one that was given in passing in an article about the post-Columbian foods explosion, when New World foods spread across the globe within the span of 100 years or less. The passing mention of the strawberry simply stated that prior to the post-Columbian foods explosion, the only berries in Europe were very small strawberries. It gave the impression that American strawberries were very big, yet the wild strawberries here in Michigan are quite small. Now the story makes sense.
awesome info, thaNK YOU
I occasionally run into wild strawberries, and I'm amazed at how small they are compared to store-bought strawberries.
Yeah because store bought are pumped with steroids and sprayed with pesticides. They literally have no nutritional value compared to organic strawberries
@@adamclark9004 This sounds like nonsense. Cite or evidence that store-bought strawberries have no nutritional value?
Berry nice
That sounds like a joke.
Creepy Joe loves to wander away when the 'Ice Creme" truck music comes along.
The Ice cream truck end was great! 😅
We still eat wild strawberries every summer here. We usually go hunting for them in late summer and make some sort of a spread out of them, sour cream and sugar in the same way it has been made for decades.
Where is that?
@@philhellmuth2771 the rural areas of northern Croatia
Thank you for the amazing endings. Especially today, it’s been 5 years since my mom passed away and it’s been super hard. Your little personality bits, and my fav so far next to Hallar Back Girl is this one!
Thank you, all the best to you.
Outstanding content.
"Berry" means pick in Balkans, strawberry means what you pick from the grass . Cranberry is what you pick from a tall tree
Strawberry Cornbread sounds amazing. Great video!
Yep. Got me thinking about making strawberry cornbread pancakes.
Grew up in Colorado and the sweetest natural strawberries I've ever tasted were always the very small, wild ones, found in the woods ❤️