Our colleague John Emont is based in Singapore, where he writes about business and geopolitics.
And recently, he's become somewhat of a blueberry expert.
What do you think makes a good blueberry?
That's a great question.
There are four things that you're looking for in a blueberry, okay?
So there's taste, of course.
You want a nice balance between sweetness and acidity.
And then there's size.
Ideally, you want a large, plump blueberry.
Crispness.
You want a crisp blueberry.
And then here's the fourth one.
Something called a bloom, B-L-O-O-M.
You might notice on blueberries, sometimes there's this sort of whitish powder.
You could even sometimes confuse it for mold, but it's not.
It's a sign of freshness.
The reason John knows so much about blueberries is that he recently went down a reporting rabbit hole.
The story had to do with Driscoll's, the American berry giant.
So I go to the grocery store and I started noticing
that Driscoll's was selling all these berries in Singapore grocery stores that were grown in Yunnan in southwest China.