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by the-rc
2473 days ago
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I'm from Southern Italy and I had tomatoes in Iceland years ago. I wouldn't call them particularly juicy. Or flavorful, for that matter. I've often noticed how the further North you go, the least flavor in the produce. Maybe they have figured better techniques and species since I was there, but even if you put that aside, Iceland is just so small and so far from most of the continent that it's always going to have a cost handicap. For the record, I love the country and food was the only sore point visiting there. |
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Iceland has very high labor prices. Anything that needs a lot of human labor isn't going to be worthwhile as an export from Iceland. Tomatoes need picking and packaging by hand still, and while that's the case, it'll never be a major exporter.