Anyone think the strawberries are awful this year?

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buzzy110, Jan 2, 1:01am
North Islanders are very ubane, educated and flexible of thought. We can easily use chips and punnet interchangeably as required. What is more some sellers use buckets, baskets, bags and bowls for selling strawberries and we are so clever, we can even understand that as well.

My only problem is with the word divine. Spend 1½secs trying to work out what devine is every time I see it but eventually I get it.

Try asking an American for a powered site at a camp ground. You will begin to understand how frustrating it is to try and communicate with a rigid and inflexible intellect.
cookessentials, Jan 2, 1:04am
no they were chips many many years ago when they used to come in a stiff aluminium/tinfoil type "chip"
prawn_whiskas, Jan 2, 1:07am
Yes they were only called 'chip'(s) when I was a child... no matter what island you lived on in NZ.
ibcreative, Jan 2, 1:10am
I grew up next to a raspberry farm in Christchurch and only ever heard them called punnets.
prawn_whiskas, Jan 2, 1:14am
Oddly enough, just to confuse the issue even further.I only learned of them being called 'Punnets' when I moved to the NI 15 odd years ago.
elliehen, Jan 2, 3:14am
...punnets/chips...cribs/bache-
s...whatever...all makes for a vibrant vernacular.

Go to OZ and your duvet is a dooner :)
obviousas, Jan 2, 4:06am
They should had been keep in refrigeration. If they were picked before it got warmer and refrigerated there won't be a thread for this. I think the wet weather just before Christmas didn't help
prawn_whiskas, Jan 2, 1:03pm
It didn't matter for some growers.. the fruit was shagged on the plant, they had to pick the best of what was there.Man I must have been the only one who saw the TV interview.
cookessentials, Jan 2, 1:18pm
yeah, like, does it matter? chip,punnet, what ever.
lythande1, Jan 2, 2:44pm
Yes, I go there. Notice they went to $1.49 each at Xmas before going back to $5 for 6? greed.
Humidity does have a lot to do with it, I found I had to keep them in the fridge if I wanted them to last more than 2 days max. Same with the bread - husband got 1/2 loaf out, 2 1/2 days later it was white with mould.
nfh1, Jan 2, 2:46pm
I had never heard of chips before - well not as something to put fruit in.

Is a chip supposed to have a certain weight in or just anything goes?
ibcreative, Jan 2, 4:36pm
Thanks nfh1. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

And cooksessentials, it doesn't matter at all. I was just interested as I'd never heard them called that before. I wish I hadn't mentioned it now.
uli, Jan 2, 8:12pm
The only thing I buy in punnets are vege plants for the garden :)
uli, Jan 2, 8:14pm
Oh I find it great that you mentioned it - What else would you like to mention that is sitting in the back of your mind since years :)
nfh1, Jan 2, 8:14pm
Don't be, it is interesting.I wonder how the name came about?
uli, Jan 2, 8:21pm
Especially as "chip" is normally an electronic term... mostly used as a type of "integrated circuit chip carrier" :)
prawn_whiskas, Jan 2, 8:36pm
Why? then we wouldn't have had the convo and all learned something new.Life's about learning, asking questions gets you there, don't close off to learning.
nfh1, Jan 2, 8:39pm
This is going to say a lot about me as my first thought when someone mentions 'chips' is

French Fries!
tehenga288, Jan 2, 9:34pm
I've always known them as "chips" - 60+ yrs - Proabably because the container was made of very thin sheets of wood back then, lovely they were too,it's only in the last few yrs I've heard them called punnets.
buzzy110, Jan 2, 9:35pm
No prawn-whiskas. I saw it too. So take heart. There are at least 2 people who know for certain that even the growers were not happy with their pre-Xmas product.
ferita, Jan 2, 9:38pm
Oh look its the foil hat brigade and their paranoid rantings
uli, Jan 3, 12:08am
Oh ferita - you are back. Thank god for that.
It was getting pretty quiet around here.
morticia, Jan 3, 12:20am
Forty years ago, they were a "chip". Thirty years ago, same thing. Along came plastic containers and the name gradually changed to "punnet" but either is used interchangeably where I come from.
ibcreative, Jan 3, 2:15am
They were punnets 40 years ago when I was growing up.
rainrain1, Jan 3, 2:25am
A bit like the Aucklander who came in and asked if he could go yabbying on our property a couple of years ago.Eh? We call them lobsters down here......Most of the lobsters have gone now, we think it's due to too much super washing into the creeks