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Strawberries used to be an underrepresented fruit in the cannabis world, with Strawberry Cough essentially holding down the fort all by itself. That’s far from the case today, however. Strawberry Fritter, Strawberry Fields, Strawberry Diesel, Strawberry Sequoia, Strawnanna, Strawberries and Cream, Strawberry Shortcake have all made recent appearances in Denver dispensaries, with varying degrees of strawberry-ness.

None of the newer strains have dethroned Strawberry Cough’s classic strawberry syrup flavor, though I’m always happy to let new kids on the block give it a try. But Dead Hot Strawberries, the latest challenger, had the odds stacked against it, despite its intriguing name.

The words “dead hot strawberries” make me think of a bowl of strawberries that someone forgot to put back in the fridge; what was once a beautiful snack is now overripe and bleeding onto my hands, practically begging me to put it out of misery. While that sounded like a lot of fruity stank and strawberry flavor, the genetics behind Dead Hot Strawberries left me unenthused.