The best way to rat out a con is to bite into a berry before you buy it. If you are too shy or the market manager is watching, there are other ways of telling the real from the spurious. First, if the label says they were shipped from California, the chances increase that the berries were developed for shipping and profit, not flavor. Look for the strawberries that are grown in Louisiana, Texas or Florida. They should be a vibrant, fat, dark red, but the fragrance should be more alluring than the appearance.
Good strawberries smell almost as luscious as they taste.
And the perfume will be obvious. Not only will it have a fresh flowery smell, but also a deeper sugary aroma, almost of caramel. In life, making a fool of someone can be sweet revenge. In culinary terms, a fool is a fanciful, silly nothing of a dish, easy to make and easy to eat. It's mashed, stewed fruit or berries folded into whipped cream.