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To unload strawberry packets on the finest berries – is it normal or immoral?
The question is shared by Stockholmers on Hötorget.
– That’s the limit for me, says Ammie, who is old but young at heart.
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Violent emotions have been stirred up in Norway as a result of more and more consumers becoming accustomed to moving berries between the boxes.
But the fact that people shovel over the finest strawberries into their own boxes, which leads to other packages being left half-empty with sad and failed berries at the bottom, is not a problem that is isolated to Norway.
Just ask Khushnudbek Shakirov.
– It happens quite often that my customers change berries between the boxes. But what should I do? There’s nothing I can do. I risk scaring away my customers?
Do not understand what drives them
For six years, Khushnudbek Shakirov has worked as a strawberry seller. The problem with strawberry cheating is nothing new to him. However, it is more difficult for him to understand what drives some of his customers.
– All my strawberries are equally beautiful! Besides, it’s filthy. Nobody wants strawberries that everyone has picked, says Khushnudbek Shakirov.
Adam, 21, who is standing and fingering his phone a stone’s throw away, agrees with Khushnudbek Shakirov that it is a bit dirty to move around strawberries between packages. But at the same time, he thinks it’s natural.
– It has happened that I also did it. Because you want the finest and freshest strawberries, says Adam.
Will do it again
Have you had feelings of guilt afterwards?
– No, I probably would not say. Because I think most people do, you do not want a box with a little half-rotten strawberries at the top.
So it may be that you do it again?
– It can happen again, I think, says Adam and adds that it is not a crime to want nice strawberries in the same way as you might want a fresh avocado or a ripe watermelon.
It’s lucky that Ammie, who describes herself as far too old but young at heart, does not hear him.
– Your conscience must be able to tell you that it is not good to do so. That it’s not good.
Basically, is this a matter of morality?
– I think so. Because I think it’s adults who are doing this. Not children. And then I think, that’s the limit for me. Children maybe you can forgive. But not adults, says Ammie.
Had hoped for an answer
If Ammie were to come across a person with strawberry cheating, she would be prepared to act.
– I think I had told. “What are you doing? Do you think it’s nice? ” A simple question to ask. Then, of course, I had hoped for an answer, says Ammie, who herself loves strawberries but thinks that raspberries are even better.
– I would actually have eaten my first strawberries in midsummer. I do that every year. But this time an accident happened and it did not happen, says Ammie.
Understand the frustration
Sandra, 34, is divided in her attitude to the strawberry cheating. On the one hand, she can understand people’s frustration at finding bad strawberries at the bottom of the package. On the other hand, it would never bother her to move the berries between the packages.
Could you have imagined moving around some strawberries if you were absolutely sure of getting away with it?
– No, I’m too honest, and I am in all contexts, says Sandra.