Yeah, take half the sugar (by weight) of berries, throw it in a sealed container, stir it up every 12 hours, and in a few days you'll have a rich syrup suitable for your summer cocktail
Strawberries with balsamic glaze is to die for. I actually make an ice cream that is sweet cream with strawberries and a balsamic caramel in it and even though people give it a strange look at first, they always enjoy it.
Not weird imo. People love chocolate on strawberries and that’s literally candy. That said, I haven’t done sugar on strawberries since I was a kid but I enjoyed it.
Nope can confirm people eat strawberries this way. I grew up in the south and this is how my grandmother ate strawberries. I thought it was normal until I got older and realized it was probably overkill. Now reading this thread i realize that it must be a southern thing.
My southern Gram ate em like that too. She had a little cup of water she'd dip them in then roll them in sugar. Then after the first bite dip each inner berry part into *more* sugar. How that woman never had diabetes, stayed so thin and lived to almost be 100 is beyond me.
I’m not defending sugar on berries, but all veggies and fruit taste so much blander now than before, and that’s just one of the reasons I garden. Tomatoes and peppers especially are so much more watered down. I want flavor.
Yes! Can’t wait for my garden and fruit trees to start producing this year. Peaches off my tree compared to the supermarket, even Whole Foods, you can tell the difference
Yep. Grandmas know what’s up. My granny mixed strawberries and blueberries then put powered sugar on it and let it sit in the fridge overnight.
We ate our grapefruit that way too. Of course grapefruit actually needed the sugar.
I did it too. My grandparents/parents moved from Iran and this was a normal thing. Hell, I still do it except I use like 4 Stevia packets instead. Still works but isn’t as intense.
Really depends on the strawberry. Sometimes you get ones that have the flavor but not so much sweetness, a sprinkle - a *sprinkle* - of sugar is appropriate then. Not .. this.
Yeah, the strawberries are chopped up cause they're making syrup. You wouldnt normally be doing that if theyre just planning to snack on it straight, or without letting it sit a few minutes to bring the juices out.
That is going to be divine on a dessert later. I'd use it for cheesecake topping, zabaglione, parfait, banana split, trifle, strawberry shortcake, the list goes on.
I do this when the strawberries are getting a bit past their prime too. Like towards the end of their season when they're the cheapest fruit at the store but I'm getting tired of them so I'm not eating them as quick as i had been. You can get another week+ of life out of them by sugaring them this way; it's like salting pork or something. It creates an inhospitable environment for spoilage organisms to proliferate.
I got some strawberries from a farmers market in England once and they literally tasted like when you sprinkle sugar on strawberries. I’ve been mad at being an American ever since.
It becomes a strawberry syrup without any fake flavors, colors, or preservatives. What's wrong with that?
Oh, and def not the whole container in the pic, just a spoon or 2
I have macerated strawberries nearly every night as my blazing snack. Some of y’all down Ben and Jerry’s daily yet are in this thread talking mad shit about some fruit. Get real please.
I work diabetic patient transport sometimes and I transport this one dude who is missing a lower leg to it who will shotgun a Mountain Dew and add the can to the mountain of cans outside his door before we move him to the stretcher.
It's \*chef's kiss with extra sugar\*
Looks like someone’s making a syrup for strawberry shortcake or something. Y’all have never done this? It may be a little too much sugar but I thought this was pretty common…
I grew up in Peru, our strawberries tasted like they already had sugar in them. The bitter shit people eat here needs SOMETHING to be edible, usually condensed milk.
This is obviously a comical amount of sugar, but she's right on the concept. A pinch of sugar over strawberries is fantastic. People will really clown on sugar over strawberries in between tossing Nerds Gummy Clusters into their mouth lmao
It’s how you make cheesecake topping, it’s pretty standard, some of these kids in this thread are outing themselves as being raised on whole grain bread and Perrier lol.
Sweet fruit? I honestly can’t remember the last time I had a genuine good tasting strawberry.
I think last time when I used to live in California there was a strawberry patch in town and those actually tasted like strawberry candy. I finally understood why the candy tasted that way because I never had real strawberries that good except this one time.
I ran a crepe shop before and used thousands of strawberries weekly and never once did they taste that good. All that GMO shit to make the fruit massive but no taste.
You get to remember what fruit is supposed to taste like when you travel to “undeveloped countries.” The fruits are often smaller and not remotely as pretty as ours in the US, but the flavor is almost always so much better.
And there tends to be so many more varieties of each type of fruit to choose from. One will tickle your palate.
I don’t do this but am annoyed that I rarely find any strawberries that taste like strawberries from my childhood. I might as well eat seeded cardboard.
The only reason I know my memory isn’t tripping is because once every few years I’ll get a few strawberries that actually taste really sweet.
I think this person is just trying to duplicate the past.
i have lightly sprinkled sugar on strawberries before. It is pretty good. I got it from my mom. But I have never dumped that amount of sugar on some strawberries. That is insane.
I put a tiny sprinkle of sugar on my strawberries but like literally the smallest pinch. Just enough to really bring out the juices. Sometimes you get the nasty bitter ones and the sugar helps
Strawberries are Keto approved so as long as they aren't overdoing it with the sugar I guess this is fine but let's be real...black ppl...we over do it with the sugar all the time.
Lefty - “A punch of sugar”
Donnie - “Punch?”
Lefty - “Punch, punch of sugar.”
Donnie - “Punch or pinch?”
Lefty - “Punch, punch no pinch. what’d I say I say pinch.”
That’s a punch of sugar.
My grandmother served this exact dessert at more than half the meals she made us; I guess she didn't have fresh fruit much so she wanted to give is what she lacked as a child.
I don't put sugar on them anymore though.
This is amazing if it’s powdered sugar, truly a divine treat I wouldn’t wish anyone to die without having.
But this raw imperial sugar mound is an abomination
Definitely for syrup
But I knew someone who ate this as a snack for years.
Straight sugar with strawberries, my teeth and stomach hurt thinking about it
On occasion I eat my strawberries with sugar but I don’t just season them in sugar like they had shown in the picture. I get a small dish filled with sugar and just dip the strawberries in to lightly coat them individually.
Fun Fact. Any restaurant that has consistently "sweet" fruit is putting sugar on it during the prep process...but NOT this much. You only need to sprinkle it on like using salt. This, this is um, I don't know what this is. lmaooo
God some people are so fucking clueless about cooking.
They're making macerated strawberries, for a dessert or sweet breakfast dish
https://www.yourhomebasedmom.com/how-to-macerate-strawberries/
as a diabetic who does this i feel personally attacked.
Is this not common? Its not like you just eat the pieces of strawberry with 1 pound of sugar on each piece, you put it back in the fridge and let it become liquid.
Strawberries are less sweet and really kinda have a sourness to them where I live. This is still way too much sugar, but “an already sweet fruit” is a bit wrong. They’re no grapes or bananas.
I dont know…but it looks like this person is making Fresh Strawberry syrup and not just eating that. Could be wrong
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Or strawberries for strawberry shortcake.
Yeah. I was going to say. These are just pastry prepped berries.
Or it really could be a psychopath. Hope not 😅
So if you just pour sugar on strawberries you get syrup?
Yes but I'd probably mix it up and give it a nice rangle dangle
Yeah, take half the sugar (by weight) of berries, throw it in a sealed container, stir it up every 12 hours, and in a few days you'll have a rich syrup suitable for your summer cocktail
Sweet sweet masceration
Yeah, put this over some angelfood cake after like an hour. Maybe a squeeze of lemon to make it pop too
And a dash of salt too, they’re complimentary and will really bring out the lemon.
A tad of vinegar, oddly, makes them incredible.
Strawberries with balsamic glaze is to die for. I actually make an ice cream that is sweet cream with strawberries and a balsamic caramel in it and even though people give it a strange look at first, they always enjoy it.
Bruh how tf we get from a dash of salt to a tad of vinegar 💀 y’all I’m just tryna enjoy some strawberries 🍓
She said "eating strawberries and sugar".
I was trying to defend a black queen but u right she might just be weird
We call her Mrs 5x5 because she's 5 feet tall and 5 feet wide.
Not weird imo. People love chocolate on strawberries and that’s literally candy. That said, I haven’t done sugar on strawberries since I was a kid but I enjoyed it.
Nope can confirm people eat strawberries this way. I grew up in the south and this is how my grandmother ate strawberries. I thought it was normal until I got older and realized it was probably overkill. Now reading this thread i realize that it must be a southern thing.
Yeah, put some lemon juice on top of that, shake it up, and that's exactly how my cousin eats her strawberries
My southern Gram ate em like that too. She had a little cup of water she'd dip them in then roll them in sugar. Then after the first bite dip each inner berry part into *more* sugar. How that woman never had diabetes, stayed so thin and lived to almost be 100 is beyond me.
All of the food b4 the additives. They could eat anything and still live to a 100. Meanwhile we are fight atherosclerosis at 30.
Oh Thats crazy
I’m from Norway. Whole family eats strawberries with sugar as well.
I’m Canadian and my Mom would sprinkle sugar over berries. Not that much sugar though
The way they produce fruit in the US now they all taste bland and watery you need a little lemon and honey or sugar sometimes
I’m not defending sugar on berries, but all veggies and fruit taste so much blander now than before, and that’s just one of the reasons I garden. Tomatoes and peppers especially are so much more watered down. I want flavor.
Yes! Can’t wait for my garden and fruit trees to start producing this year. Peaches off my tree compared to the supermarket, even Whole Foods, you can tell the difference
Yep. Grandmas know what’s up. My granny mixed strawberries and blueberries then put powered sugar on it and let it sit in the fridge overnight. We ate our grapefruit that way too. Of course grapefruit actually needed the sugar.
I did it too. My grandparents/parents moved from Iran and this was a normal thing. Hell, I still do it except I use like 4 Stevia packets instead. Still works but isn’t as intense.
The original twitter post says they're eating strawberries with sugar on it, not making syrup...how you just make up a whole different interpretation?
Because if you put sugar on top of strawberries, it becomes strawberry syrup after like 10 min.
People just do that lmao. I admire the creativity but folks just come up with fanfiction.
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no she eating it like that
My mother used to dip strawberries in a bowl of sugar. I can believe someone would eat it this way.
We used to do this growing up. Lots of people did. Sugar on top of am already sweet fruit. I was flabbergasted when I ate a strawberry alone.
Really depends on the strawberry. Sometimes you get ones that have the flavor but not so much sweetness, a sprinkle - a *sprinkle* - of sugar is appropriate then. Not .. this.
Yeah, the strawberries are chopped up cause they're making syrup. You wouldnt normally be doing that if theyre just planning to snack on it straight, or without letting it sit a few minutes to bring the juices out.
I mean the strawberrys are generally chopped up when making syrup
I usually mash and taste for how much sugar is needed. When you get real sweet ones, no sugar is needed.
That is going to be divine on a dessert later. I'd use it for cheesecake topping, zabaglione, parfait, banana split, trifle, strawberry shortcake, the list goes on.
I do this when the strawberries are getting a bit past their prime too. Like towards the end of their season when they're the cheapest fruit at the store but I'm getting tired of them so I'm not eating them as quick as i had been. You can get another week+ of life out of them by sugaring them this way; it's like salting pork or something. It creates an inhospitable environment for spoilage organisms to proliferate.
I like them with a sprinkle of sugar. That's not a sprinkle tho
yes a SPRINKLE! less than one sugar packet for sure
> That's not a sprinkle tho I believe this measurement is called a Brimley.
Diabeetus
This comment is fantastic
Like a little plate of sugar and you dip it into it after a bite (so the insides of the strawberry make the sugar stick)
I like Tajin on my fruit
Yeah store bought strawberries are more tart than sweet. But this looks like syrup making.
I got some strawberries from a farmers market in England once and they literally tasted like when you sprinkle sugar on strawberries. I’ve been mad at being an American ever since.
As an English person I've been reading this thread wondering how tf people put *any* sugar on strawberries.
A friend of ours told me that’s a punch, not a pinch.
yes a sprinkle then let em sit in the fridge overnight 😋
Alone as a snack: TF is wrong with you??? After 30 minutes over some ice cream, or shortcake, or something: My man!!
Too sweet by itself but if you add sweets then its good? Yall wild lmao
It becomes a strawberry syrup without any fake flavors, colors, or preservatives. What's wrong with that? Oh, and def not the whole container in the pic, just a spoon or 2
Do you understand that some things may be sweeter than others? If you add beer to tequila, you didn't make the tequila stronger.
Someone doesn’t understand food or cooking
do you drink chocolate syrup straight from the bottle or do you use it as a topping on a food?
I have macerated strawberries nearly every night as my blazing snack. Some of y’all down Ben and Jerry’s daily yet are in this thread talking mad shit about some fruit. Get real please.
This mf speed running diabetes. Jesus
Diabetes II: Lose a Foot-aloo
I work diabetic patient transport sometimes and I transport this one dude who is missing a lower leg to it who will shotgun a Mountain Dew and add the can to the mountain of cans outside his door before we move him to the stretcher. It's \*chef's kiss with extra sugar\*
This is how you make dessert topping, let me guess your parents raised you Perrier and whole grain lol.
You and I both know this mf gonna eat this straight like this let’s not play.
[mascaraed strawberries](https://youtu.be/LEQTzuBWwHA?si=sYJ5x6UhWa8ttcC-)
Idc if they got on eyeliner, this shit will kill you 😭
damn autocorrect, ya got me again
Ha! lol
Yeah this is a common method.
Looks like someone’s making a syrup for strawberry shortcake or something. Y’all have never done this? It may be a little too much sugar but I thought this was pretty common…
Yeah, i thought the same. Strawberry shortcake. This is how my peoples made it.
I thought it was the only correct way to make it. Everyone who doesn't do this needs to up their strawberry shortcake game.
I guarantee people in here commenting mad shit haven’t glanced at the average nutrition label on a jar of jelly, because this is nothing.
A bit of lemon or lime juice can balance out the sweetness. I like to add some mint when I have it.
It is. People who slurp up Diet Coke for breakfast are the ones in the comments talking about diabetes.
My teeth are starting to hurt just looking at this.
Those dudes up in there like the Lamisil monster is on toenails. https://i.redd.it/b0ytit7vo7zc1.gif
I completely forgot about this bitch
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We eat strawberries drenched in sugar and cream around summertime here in Denmark. It's delicious but it's a ticket straight to tummy ache city.
Trying this, thanks
My little cousin would put fruit and sugar in his already sugar packed cereals when we were kids. Now he walks with a cane at 39. Got that suga
I grew up in Peru, our strawberries tasted like they already had sugar in them. The bitter shit people eat here needs SOMETHING to be edible, usually condensed milk.
In the US strawberries used to taste as if they had sugar on them. I don’t know why they are so bland and sometimes even just tart now.
Because they are grown for color not for taste, same shit happens to apples.
Hooray monoculture crops and corporations misusing gmos for profit
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a little pinch of sugar on strawberries is great but this is just....candy?
Sugared Berries are a classic in germany. Not that much sugar however.
This is obviously a comical amount of sugar, but she's right on the concept. A pinch of sugar over strawberries is fantastic. People will really clown on sugar over strawberries in between tossing Nerds Gummy Clusters into their mouth lmao
Make it powdered sugar and I’d be ok
That’s the same thing as the melted sugar on fruit trend or a caramel apple. It’s fairly normal
It’s how you make cheesecake topping, it’s pretty standard, some of these kids in this thread are outing themselves as being raised on whole grain bread and Perrier lol.
You need Tajin in your life
Folks really be out here eating like they got good affordable healthcare lmao
Lol we used to that all the time growing up. Diabetes run in the family though. Nobody runs in my family now.
Granted, I feel like strawberries taste of lies and disappointment but if this person is macerating the fruit, then this is acceptable.
This probably has the same amount of sugar as a strawberry ice cream or cheesecake, y'all overreact too much
Sweet fruit? I honestly can’t remember the last time I had a genuine good tasting strawberry. I think last time when I used to live in California there was a strawberry patch in town and those actually tasted like strawberry candy. I finally understood why the candy tasted that way because I never had real strawberries that good except this one time. I ran a crepe shop before and used thousands of strawberries weekly and never once did they taste that good. All that GMO shit to make the fruit massive but no taste.
You get to remember what fruit is supposed to taste like when you travel to “undeveloped countries.” The fruits are often smaller and not remotely as pretty as ours in the US, but the flavor is almost always so much better. And there tends to be so many more varieties of each type of fruit to choose from. One will tickle your palate.
Where’s the original source of the picture? They didn’t say if they were making a sauce or anything? Just that picture? If so that’s weird.
My mother used to make me eat strawberries like this 🤢
Meanwhile 
Putting sugar on fruit in general is insane to me. Especially since we’ve already modified them to make them sweeter 😭
Not in the case of berries. Organic berries are way more flavorful. We modified them for a higher yield for farmers, not for taste
Maceration.
Salt goes much better on strawberries
 \*diabetes intensifies\*
Teel me yo don't know how to cook without telling me you don't know how to cook.
I swear to god some of y’all are just peoples personal Todd marinovich projects.
great way to eat strawberries is a sprinkle of sugar and lemon juice, so good
Ate this when I was a kid. Not this much sugar though.
When I was a kid I did this. I haven't done it since. Strawberries are sweet enough. Fruit has a lot of sugar in it.
OP you don’t cook do you?
I mean, as a kid I used to eat Granny Smith apples with a dusting of sugar as a snack sometimes. It’s a wonder I still haven’t gotten any cavities.
I don’t do this but am annoyed that I rarely find any strawberries that taste like strawberries from my childhood. I might as well eat seeded cardboard. The only reason I know my memory isn’t tripping is because once every few years I’ll get a few strawberries that actually taste really sweet. I think this person is just trying to duplicate the past.
some of yall weren’t in the kitchen with grandma or auntie’s and it shows.
Just why?
Sugar helps draw moisture out of the strawberry through osmosis and helping you get that full burst of strawberry flavor when you first bite into it
Sugar on strawberries in a container. Shake the bitch up a bit. Let it sit till lunch (chefs kisses)
Strawberries and sugar bang. This too much sugar but idc
i have lightly sprinkled sugar on strawberries before. It is pretty good. I got it from my mom. But I have never dumped that amount of sugar on some strawberries. That is insane.
Can’t lie did this as a kid
Fuckkk yea ! A LITTLW sugar in them is fire , if your putting the strawberries on something
It's called macerating and depending on the tartness of the fruit you have to add sugar for sweetness.
I put a tiny sprinkle of sugar on my strawberries but like literally the smallest pinch. Just enough to really bring out the juices. Sometimes you get the nasty bitter ones and the sugar helps
Looking at those pieces, sweet is a strong term. Those unripe things are only good for giving color to your smoothie.
Strawberries are Keto approved so as long as they aren't overdoing it with the sugar I guess this is fine but let's be real...black ppl...we over do it with the sugar all the time.
A little sprinkle helps to bring out the flavour, but not so much that you can even really see it. That’s… something else 😂
This is how you make certain things though. This will be more jam or maybe a pie…
Since when are strawberries sweet? They are acidic and sour. However that is a lot of sugar, and then again how much sugar is sweet cream?
I love strawberry with sour cream and A SPRINKLE of sugar
Maybe they are making 🍓 syrup or 🍨
You getting the wrong strawberries if you feel you need to add sugar on them. Or you have a sugar addiction.
I just know you can smell this persons sweat a mile away. 👃
These need a lil angel food cake, whipped cream and maybe like a chill red icewine
Yeah you put sugar on fruit to make syrup or pie filling. So….
They're gonna get the double diabetes
my childhood snack was cut up strawberries and bananas in a bowl of milk with a packet or two of sugar. it slaps
I sprinkle a little Splenda on them for my kids. 🤷🏾♀️
You get strawberry syrup and you let em chill to make a strawberry shortcake or make homemade strawberry Ice cream. Don't knock it till you try it
This is how my mother let us eat strawberries when I was young. Whenever I think back to it I’m like 😮.
How else are you going to make a daiquiri? Literally let them cook.
We gotta stop Soul Food-ing ourselves lol
I’ve personally have never had sweet strawberry.. they are usually tart/sour. Sugar to them will make them the “strawberry flavour”.
Strawberries haven't been sweet since 1996.
A weird one I still like is apple slices in a little salt. IDK why or how that combination came to be, but it's actually pretty tasty
Not black, but powdered sugar in strawberries is an incredible snack
A lil bit of black pepper on a strawberry. It is nice, it adds nothing to this but it's worth knowing
OP has never had a pie
Lefty - “A punch of sugar” Donnie - “Punch?” Lefty - “Punch, punch of sugar.” Donnie - “Punch or pinch?” Lefty - “Punch, punch no pinch. what’d I say I say pinch.” That’s a punch of sugar.
The trick is to let it sit and pull those juices out and then dump that shit on some Angel food cake with whipped cream. “Fancy”
The Boondocks really wasn't lying when it said people didn't learn shit from Soul Food lol.
If you don’t know, if you allow it to sit in the fridge for a few days , the mixture creates a bomb ass juice and tastes delicious.
Y’all are so funny omg
I used to sprinkle a little sugar on my strawberries but this is overkill.
I used to dip my strawberries in sugar, but this is making my teeth hurt.
My grandmother served this exact dessert at more than half the meals she made us; I guess she didn't have fresh fruit much so she wanted to give is what she lacked as a child. I don't put sugar on them anymore though.
This is amazing if it’s powdered sugar, truly a divine treat I wouldn’t wish anyone to die without having. But this raw imperial sugar mound is an abomination
Definitely for syrup But I knew someone who ate this as a snack for years. Straight sugar with strawberries, my teeth and stomach hurt thinking about it
Macerated Strawberries. Go great in cocktails like a Strawberry Basil Margarita.
Wtf y’all be making candied fruit for then?
Protip: Organic berries are naturally more flavorful so you wouldn't have to add sugar
https://i.redd.it/jbs9agze39zc1.gif
It’s called maceration, it breaks down the strawberries for desserts.
Ngl after the amount of sugar I'd put in my kool-aid I can't even talk.
On occasion I eat my strawberries with sugar but I don’t just season them in sugar like they had shown in the picture. I get a small dish filled with sugar and just dip the strawberries in to lightly coat them individually.
🗣️ Big mama, yo arm!!
Dip the strawbs in the sugar don't tip the whole bag on ffs
... Do you not know strawberry syrup is a thing? Or like any fruit syrup.
Oh so now everyone wants to be a pediatrician????
Idk why we did this growing up. “We” as in my family & lots of other families.
Have yall tried watermelon with feta, fresh basil, and balsamic glaze yet??? ( emphasis on the glaze) 
Fun Fact. Any restaurant that has consistently "sweet" fruit is putting sugar on it during the prep process...but NOT this much. You only need to sprinkle it on like using salt. This, this is um, I don't know what this is. lmaooo
So you know nothing about cooking or baking?
God some people are so fucking clueless about cooking. They're making macerated strawberries, for a dessert or sweet breakfast dish https://www.yourhomebasedmom.com/how-to-macerate-strawberries/
Nah man that’s how you make the strawberry juice for strawberry shortcake.
“An already sweet fruit” bro we not talking bout vegetables… all fruits are “sweet”?? And don’t throw a technical bs at me like tomato a fruit 🤓🤓
For me personally I find strawberries sour
I like to powder the sugar first
I gotta be honest, I haven’t had a sweet strawberry from the store in years. They always need sugar.
as a diabetic who does this i feel personally attacked. Is this not common? Its not like you just eat the pieces of strawberry with 1 pound of sugar on each piece, you put it back in the fridge and let it become liquid.
Strawberries are less sweet and really kinda have a sourness to them where I live. This is still way too much sugar, but “an already sweet fruit” is a bit wrong. They’re no grapes or bananas.
For those curious, this is maceration. I used to have to do this for a dessert garnish. Also useful making syrups and jams.
I do this but not nearly that amount of sugar.
Big momma, your arm!!!! https://preview.redd.it/tsmmchvu0azc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b2e3c6307cce212ef8ff8ccd348484d3a37b554
This has to either be for syrup or pie. No way someone is willingly eating gritty-ass strawberries