[shoeshine]

An article in today's Telegraph Online brings to attention a farm near Cambridge which has had to stop letting people select and pick their fruit because they munch the fruit as they pick.

I can't believe people would betray the trust placed in them to be honest.

Telegraph Online today (Full Article)

After 40 years of allowing visitors to pick their own strawberries, Hacker’s Fruit Farm near Cambridge has stopped the practice.

The reason? Some customers are eating strawberries on the spot, even dipping the fruit in cream before gobbling them surreptitiously. The greedy miscreants then present only a handful of fruit to be paid for. We hope that other farms will not be forced to impose a ban on pick-your-own deals.

Clearly, farmers will have to use their own judgment. Most pickers, dare we suggest, have probably been guilty of popping the odd strawberry into their mouths at some point. They should be let off with a caution. But binge-eating strawberry thieves are a menace.

They should be apprehended, made to surrender their hidden cartons of cream, and publicly humiliated, so that their juice-stained faces turn even redder.

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[arachnophobe]

Originally Posted by shoeshine

An article in today's Telegraph Online brings to attention a farm near Cambridge which has had to stop letting people select and pick their fruit because they munch the fruit as they pick.

I can't believe people would betray the trust placed in them to be honest.



Link for reference purposes

Everyone muches as they pick! Don't they?!! Haven't been strawberry picking for about 20 years but seem to remember eating half my weight in fruit. Although I was only small to begin with. I would draw the line at taking along my own pot of cream though!

[Sheff_Tutor]

If your picking, I thought this was one of the benefits. Stuff your face on the job, like an eat all you can buffet where you just have to pay for the doggy bag at the end

[taxman]

Which reminds me that it will be bilberry season soon and an opportunity to stock up on free fruit

[kenthack]

some years ago i went strawberry picking and the farmer looked at me and said id have to be weighed in and out

dont know what he was trying to hint at lmao

[shoeshine]

Ooh!

It's like Fagin's Den on this thread!

[shoeshine]

Originally Posted by arachnophobe

I would draw the line at taking along my own pot of cream though!

Now folks, here's one spider hater with real "class".

[arachnophobe]

Originally Posted by shoeshine

Now folks, here's one spider hater with real "class".

I'm dead classy, me.

I'd take a bottle of strongbow instead. And a deckchair!

[Ally68]

I'm afraid I too am a sinner shoeshine.

I remember picking strawberries when I was a kid and munching away while I filled the basket.

Can you forgive me?



I have happy memories of bilberry picking too. Hours of free fun!

[shoeshine]

Originally Posted by Ally68

I'm afraid I too am a sinner shoeshine.

I remember picking strawberries when I was a kid and munching away while I filled the basket.

Can you forgive me?



I have happy memories of bilberry picking too. Hours of free fun!

Kids should have the right to have a good pick of, and eating, the fruit when the occasion arises.

It stops them developing the habit of picking their noses and eating it thereafter.

melthebel swears by it!

[DIVA]

A good friend of mine, gave birth to a beautiful little girl who has a very slight malformation. My friend was responsible in her pregnancy and naturally wanted to know what could have been the possible cause. In the end, and after lots of discussion, the only thing she could possibly think of that might have possibly caused this was that she went strawberry picking early on, before she actually knew she was pregnant, and ate quite a fair amount of the strawberries, without them being washed, and that possibly had ingested some sort of pesticide. I've had conversations with people about this since, some of whom are adamant that such places wouldn't use potentially harmful pesticides where the public are allowed, but I felt I should at least share this.