Do you ever feel like you are getting imitation fruit lately? Will people in the future not know real fruit?

Question

I got these strawberries, but they aren't juicy, fruity or very tasty, kind of tasteless and weird, like they look like strawberries--the perfect look and texture, but they are not quite, actually they are strange.
Now I got these peaches and nectarines and it's the same thing! Except, they look like peaches on the outside, but they don't taste like them, they are tasteless and colorless inside!
What is going on ?
Are these the genetically modified foods, will they spoil the genes of seeds permanently and will the people of the future not know what real fruits taste like?

I remember a girl I knew from Sweden said she couldn't wait to go back home and taste some "real" lettuce. She said all our vegetables are tasteless for some reason. I didn't know what she was talking about , but now I think I do.
What should we do besides harvest our own fruit trees and keep our own farms?

Answer 1

My Mom visited Tokyo and said that they had real fuit there. Here, I bought apples for a pie and they didn't bake! I have never had that happen before. The strawberries here are called market berries because they are so tough they can take any amount of travel and punishment to get here. I tried to go to an organic market, but aren't they growing stuff in the same polluted ground the rest of us live on? The home gardening was teriible this year because of the heat and drought, global warming?

Answer 2

You can't fake fruit...whole fruits. Flavors can be synthesized, but not the whole fruit.

You just got fruit that was most likely picked way too early. When it "ripens" off the tree/vine/stalk/whatever, it changes color to look ripe, but doesn't have the ability to develop the sugars and esters that compose its flavor, nor recieve the moisture to make it juicy in the way it would having been picked ripe.

Answer 3

you could grow your own.
There is plenty of info. on the net re: urban gardening, and if you actually have a lawn then you could definitely plant tomatoes or cukes or hot peppers, cabbage. Depending on where you live the list could be endless.