How Strawberries were Accidentally Invented

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Look, strawberries might have different standards than you do, but calling them a tart seems pretty harsh

The smaller wild ones are still a thing, and they taste great. And by far better than most of the mostly just good looking cultivated ones. Just collecting them is a big pain in your backside.

Dude. The way your eyes popped when you had that first bite spoke volumes about how amazing the dish was. I don't think your face has ever been that expressive. Thanks for sharing this one with us.

English dude makes dillegrout for the English king, gets an estate and an income. French dude grows strawberries for the French king ... gets a new name.

"The knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, all on a summer's day." If this is the kind of tart he stole, I'd say crime does pay.

"And then the only thing you're growing is strawberries." I fail to see the problem.

That story about the descendant of Frezier 800 years bringing back the Chilean strawberry to France resulting in cross-breeding is so amazing and cool!

On a business trip in Brussels in a fancy restaurant (the boss was paying) I had "Fraise du Bois Chantilly ". Tiny wild strawberries and whipped cream. Still remember that luxury 49 years later.

Hi, Brit here. My grandma made strawberry tarts with this exact technique (barring the saffron) throughout my childhood. She'd also occasionally add a layer of homemade strawberry jam to the bottom as well! Goes well with crème fraiche and mint or a little Chantilly cream.

That one subdued "... Y'all" 16:08 just tells you that this was a winner without needing to say anything else.

Wild strawberries are actually amazingly easy to grow if your home climate isn't too extreme. Years ago, we picked up a wild strawberry plant on a walk in the woods and planted it on a sunny hillside in our garden. Within just a year or two it had basically completely taken over that hillside and we ended up needing to contain the spread of strawberries. Because the thing is, they don't just propagate through blossoms, fruits and seeds like most plants, but they also form stolons/runners, which is a lot quicker.

Fun fact: Not only Julius de Berry was renamed Fraise, after the Fraise, but his great-father is believed to be named Chantilly, which is a sweet whipped cream often eaten with strawberries ^^

This has got to be the definition of a happy accident.

My garden is overgrown with those tiny strawberries. I never thought of making a tart, though. I usually pick and eat them while weeding or grooming the roses. Which, I just realise, sounds far more romantic than it actually is.

In Poland we actually distinguish between wild strawberries and domesticated strawberries as plants with different names that are separately cultivated so it's actually relatively possible to get to buy wild variety.

The only surviving folk song in the original Cornish language pre-revival is called Delkiow Sivy which translates to "Strawberry Leaves" because the chorus has the refrain "Rag delkiow sivy ra muzzy teag" which means "For strawberry leaves make maidens fair". The song dates back to at least 1698 when it was first written down by Thomas Tonkin 😊💖

In Denmark, we call the smaller wild variant “forest strawberry” and our literal name for them is “earth berry”. As a child, I always put them on a thin straw/grass and ate them like a kebab 😅🍓

Max, when you're reading very old English texts please remember the the "y" was used in early printing to represent the older English letter "þ" (thorn) which is pronounced as "th" . So "ye" is pronounced "the"!

When Max says it’s the best thing he has made, you HAVE to run, not walk, to the grocery store. And I can confirm, it is PHENOMENAL! I added whipped cream on it. It was a huge hit with friends.