Strawberries; I used to think that, but it's only true for me locally. The important thing for delicious strawberries is that you pick them ripe. So locally the only tasty strawberries you get are small and in season, because that's local. However if you are in a place more suited for strawberries you can find large tasty strawberries picked ripe. Strawberries in a super market are picked green and ripen in transit.
Tomatoes: small tomatoes have a higher pulp to juice ratio, so are literally less watery. But again, the big ones can be quite tasty, they just need to be reduced more, which has other effects: the long cooking time changes the flavor, which you may or may not want. But the important thing for flavor is to get vine ripened tomatoes, which usually means you need to buy canned, because the time from vine to can is a lot less than from vine to super market.