Abnormal food products.
 

So I went to the store the other day to buy some blueberries and strawberries for my mom. So, I opened up the box of strawberries, started to wash them and then all of a sudden, I see a huge freaking strawberry. I'm thinking "Woah, thats a big strawberry", and then I ate it to see how good it tasted, but before that, I took a picture for all of you to see.

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/3...awberry3gg.jpg

What kind of stories with abnormal foods have you experienced, like a three-chambered peanut or something?

I can't really tell how large it is, because you did not put any object next to it so that I could judge its relative size.

Looks like that strawberry had cancer, though.

America has to use chemicals to make more of something. America is getting fatter. so. america thinks health < quantity. you can avoid that by getting ORGANIC. But.....after a little while healthy becomes expensive...and thats sad....booo..

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Well you are in canada. But they probly grow the fruit in America.
America thinks...health < quantity. They have chemicals to grow things
faster. Therefore making the food have side effects.

Moving to The Kitchen.

I once found a strawberry that large as well. Sometimes, I see very small oranges among normal-sized ones in those bags.

You know why? They lace it with a chemical that basically screws up the number of chromosomes. By screwing up the number of chromosomes, a strawberry gets freakishly large. So yes, we are eating retarded fruits.

I ran across a similar strawberry recently. It looked really strange, especially with the wart-like lumps all over it. I chose not to eat it. :p

Potatoes get like this too, freakishly large. I bought a bag of potatoes one day to cook for dinner. While I was pulling some out, there was one that was x2 bigger than the rest of them. It didn't look like the other ones either. When I cut it open to see if it was decent, there were dark spots all over inside.

Lol, retarded fruits. I've never seen or eaten any strawberries that look as freaky as that before, but I've occasionally come across peanuts that had one or three nuts in them. My sis calls it quality control gone down the drain :P

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come to think of it, i ate an apple yesterday that was red all over except for one spot of yellow close to the stalk. I thought it looked cool though

Or you could just grow your own stuff like I do. =)

I got a Honeycrisp apple a few months ago that was pretty damn big. I also took a picture. It was good, and it smelled up my entire room with the fragrance of apple:
http://img417.imageshack.us/img417/8...pple9fu.th.jpg
I also got an ass pear for Valentines day. Seriously. It looks like a lumpy female ass:
http://img417.imageshack.us/img417/1...ear36tn.th.jpg

About retarded fruits...

I was thinking of growing some oranges from seed, but wanted to do some background reading (why waste resources if my climate isn't right?) It turns out that none of the oranges you can regularly buy in a US grocery store will give have seeds that will fruit. Sure they'll grow, but apparently because of the insane hybridization they have gone through, they won't get any farther than the blooms. In fact, you have to graft an orange branch onto another tree to propagate them now. Yikes!

I am very curious about the aforementioned chemical and abnormal number of chromosomes it strawberries... a cursory search didn't give me any results, but I did learn some interesting things about strawberry polyploidy (and the many species of strawberries with different numbers of sets of chromosomes).

I had a strawberry like that before. genetically modified foods are creepy/cool >.<
I mean yeah I got more strawberry but it was the size of my hand! *shudders* Strawberries aren't supposed to be apple size~!!

The other day, I cut open an orange, and just inside the fruit was a dark brown glob with a circumference of about a penny. The rest of the orange was perfectly fine, though I declined eating it. The brown seemed to have the consistency of mud. Anyone know what the hell this was?

my friend grew mutant zuchini in his yard a year or so ago. I don't have any pictures but the zuchini itself was thicker then my leg and longer then my arm, it was huge. He never told me specificly what he did to them but he said he sprayed them with some "miracle growth somethingorother" which I can only assume is mystery chemicals.

Possibly rot, if the orange was old enough. Was the brown spot deep inside? I assume "just inside" means it is near the surface, so maybe it was the site of one hell of a bruise.

Anyway, don't have a picture, but one time while grocery shopping I came across several Red Delicious apples that were the size of one hand wrapped around another like you were ready to punch someone. I was thinking "surely something that big can't possibly taste good" so I skipped that monstrosity.

Several times with candies, and other snacks in small packaging, I'd find 2 inside instead of 1. Like, 2 sticks of gum in 1 wrapper. How does it happen? Not even I can begin to figure ideas as to how.

I even had 2 fortune cookies in 1 packaging. And I too have found strawberries as big as the one in the 1st post.

....He used miracle-gro on it?!

He was either a man who loved zucchini beyond all else, or had never grown it before. XD My mom and I have grown zucchini a couple times, we just stick the seeds in the grown and keep them watered until they sprout... and then the plants try to take over the yard.

Also, I have a photo of a tomato I like to call the 'FLCL tomato':

http://tn1-5.deviantart.com/fs5/100/...s_by_Talec.jpg

~Na-keya

Only those large pumpkin contest come to mind for this thread. It must be cool to grow something that large.

I once ate a pint of strawberries that made me sick for 4 days straight. Vomitting, fever, shakes, stomachaches, it sucked. It was probably a whole batch of those cancer-berries pictured above.

I want to know who I can sue.

you sure you're not mildly allergic to them?

So we're giving fruits cancer... One step closer to weaponization.

Well, sorta. They took a pair of strawberry plants, let them steep in the compound, then allowed cross-pollenization to occur. This isn't really anything profound, nor is it as detrimental as you seem to portray the matter. Nearly all fruits and vegetables that we purchase are "retarded" hybrids in some fashion.
It's true that manipulating the chromosomal properties can cause abnormalities, but this isn't man playing God, per se. The same mutations would happen normally, albeit with less frequency. We simply observed the phenomenon and learned how to induce it at will.
The parent plants may absorb the chemical, and the direct offspring probably absorb trace amounts from the parent, but after that, the chromosomal changes have been made; there's no reason to further expose the plants to chemicals as long as the altered hybrids will bear seeded fruit.

The actual reason we're given this engineered produce is that hybrids are statistically more fertile than purebreeds; the chances of successful pollenization are higher. Not only that, hybridized fruits and vegetables often bear enhanced resistances to plant viruses, molds, parasites and environmental threats, due to the offspring receiving the best of each parent's defenses. After some calculate chain-breeding, horticulturists have produced some hardy plants that pose no health risk (pesticide sprays notwithstanding).

So freakish strawberries are something that would happen in nature anyhow. There's no cause for alarm.

It was probably from the raw sewage they use in Mexico as fertilizer to grow them. Don't you guys remember that big scandal a few years ago where a bunch of people were getting deathly ill from strawberries and they traced it back to raw sewage?

Anyway, has anyone heard of "grapples"? They are genetically modified apples that taste and smell like grapes. They're good, but very expensive. I buy them for my son's lunch sometimes.

I bought a pack a few weeks go. Yeah, they smell nice and all, but they taste like plain apples. $4 for just four of them.