Buying fruit can be a vexing business. Apples make me anxious—why Chinese and New Zealand, I was told apples grow in Simla! Fruit wala looks resigned as I complain that things which grow on trees shouldn’t have stickers. Dragon fruits make me dither and as for kiwis, where’s the koschan? Is it a bird, is it an Australian? No, it’s globalisation! When was it not you may ask, and you’d be right.

But, when it comes to strawberries, all bets are off.