Best raspberry experiences I’ve had were in my backyard or on hiking trails.

Employees go through the canisters and pick out the obviously moldy ones. They're trying to work fast, though, so they can miss some that aren't obvious. The decay can also get much, much worse just in the time the product sits on the shelves, depending on how good the refrigeration in that exact spot is.

Anyway, open them up and examine before purchase. The employees will not mind, it's what they'd do too.

edit: Assuming there's no sticker. If they're sealed with a sticker then I wouldn't break it.

They really dont keep well,but they are easy to grow.

My favorite feature of raspberries is how they taste like shit unless you find them ripe on the bush in the wild, when they are legit one of the ten best things you’ll taste in your life.

Some produce is just hard to sell supermarket style 🤷‍♂️ we get raspberries delivered daily at work and we do indeed have to turn and burn a fair portion of them due to mold or just being a mushy mess. We do blackberries too but we get those frozen and just turn them in to a sauce which is suuuuper tasty stuff

Things melt faster now. You can lose a pint of berries overnight. Plant your own. We’re on 75 strawberry plants with 30 more fridged for next year. Recommend Hoods. They’re the strawberriest of strawberries. Small, but punchy with flavor. Low maintenance. They spread like weeds.

Raspberries are weeds. You can plant them in a giant pot or raised bed and prune them.

I’ve given up on garlic, as another example, planting a raised bed of the stuff instead. That stuff used to be good for a couple weeks. Now, it disintegrates in days.

This is just another way to steal our money. Selling us the trash produce they used to throw out.

At least one brand sells them in big clear flat trays so you can see both layers and inspect for mold. But then a lot of folks also bring them home and make the mistake of washing them, which is a guaranteed way to get them to mold in 1-2 days.

let's not forget about their feature of the bonus 300% to mould speed growth if you as much as think about washing them

I open the pack and shuffle them around. I went through about 10 packs of strawberries yesterday.. all were fucked and still being sold.

I bought none. next time, I'm throwing the bad crap to the side, and filling a thing with strawberries from multiple packs.

I'm done being nice in grocery stores..

I’ve always been cursed with bad strawberry selection. Other people picked strawberries from the same grocery stores that turned out great, but mine were always rotten when I went to eat them.

Anyway, turns out strawberries don’t last for several days. You pretty much have to eat them same day. Everyone else knew this but me, who would open them up four days later.

My store has them in plastic containers you can rattle around and see most of them. Hopefully "iamstarvingaf" just means they're always hungry, and not a poor person spending their food money on fucking raspberries.

Better to buy frozen berries for this reason.

Huh. Weirdly mine never do that. But to be fair I "buy" them from the potted raspberry plants I grow out back. The biggest problem I have is getting them before the birds notice...

Here, have some slavic solution to the issue from an average veggies store you get every few hundred meters

Damn where are you buying raspberries? My local grocery store has two of the little boxes for $4

I don't know if this works for raspberries, because I don't like and don't buy raspberries, but washing cucumbers in 10 parts water to 1 part white vinegar does wonders for keeping them fresh in the fridge.

I just inspect them before they go in the container. Not sure why I would bring them to the store though.

Being I normal Lemmy user I automatically presumed the post was talking about raspberry pis. I was confused.

I bought raspberries today for £1 and they were in immaculate condition.

Just another L for the US.

We had a supermarket like that across from our old place. Guess what: all the locals went to the green grocer for fruit and veg.