There's a trick. Don't use sweetened whip cream, use heavy whipping cream and sprinkle the strawberries with sugar (Just a bit). Strawberries are best sweetened only slightly to me and the savory flavor of the cream compliments the tartness of the strawberries.
Edit: Thanks for the unlocked memory, it's probably been decades.
Maybe there's something like that going on. There's nothing about the aspect of it that throws me off, I always thought it looks appealing, but the time I tried it didn't go so well.