When shopping for fruits in the winter, buyer beware.
Recently, a Mr. Wang from Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province in south China, was journeying home from a family trip to the historic town of Huanglongxi when he approached a street vendor selling strawberries.
The strawberries Mr. Wang sampled were very tasty, so he decided to make a purchase. He didn’t suspect anything when the vendor stopped him from choosing the strawberries himself, telling him that the fruit was quite fragile.
“I thought the fruit seller made a reasonable request. So I let him pick the strawberries for me,” Mr. Wang told Tianfu Morning Post on Mar. 11.
Upon trying the strawberries at home, the Wang family found that “they were all rather hollow inside and not very tasty.” Upon closer examination, Mr. Wang realized that the insides of each strawberry bore a needle scar.
