Our blackberries are almost done, actually. They grow wild behind my house and are bitterly sour. However, if I had the patience, they'd make great jam.
Bah. My saskatoons > your raspberries. If only because we've got a few wild raspberry bushes around, but they always seem to get left alone while we strip mine the saskatoons. Mmm, saskatoon pie.
My grandmother's house had raspberry bushes, and we'd stay the night while dad was working. Getting up in the morning and eating raspberries straight off the vine is heaven.
Ah, we used to eat those by the screeds when we were kids. They grew wild by the side of the road where we rode our bikes along with raspberries, blackberries, mulberries, wild strawberries and something small, round and red that grew on trees that I never knew what it was exactly but aw, man, they were delicious. Nothing nicer than a freshly rained-on, warm from the sun berry off the bush.
Thimbleberries are a relative of the raspberry. The berries taste like raspberries, but there are only a few berries on each plant at a time. I've seen them on Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Isle Royale. They're also found elsewhere in the northern US. Wikipedia has more:
I've got red and black raspberries and blackberries in my yard... but I've never successfully put any into a bowl. They always find their way directly into my mouth. I've been enjoying them for about two weeks now.
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Date: 2008-07-15 12:04 am (UTC)I've been eating blackberries from the vines the whole time I've been down in the US... stuff ripens early here!
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Date: 2008-07-15 12:31 am (UTC)The first is self-evident, because Canada is better than the USA. The second if self-evident, because they put the capital out here and not in BC.
QED!
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Date: 2008-07-15 12:35 am (UTC)Although being human and caring about such things, I tend to agree with you. The US is getting more and more communally psychotic every day.
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Date: 2008-07-15 12:40 am (UTC)(Lebanese cucumbers = SO GOOD! Everyone needs those!)
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Date: 2008-07-15 12:58 am (UTC)So you've had cucumbers in Lebanon?
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Date: 2008-07-15 02:10 am (UTC)note to young players: when in Australia, eating blackberries will almost certainly POISON YOU. DON'T DO IT.
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Date: 2008-07-15 02:19 am (UTC)Yay!
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Date: 2008-07-15 02:12 am (UTC)Time to go dig out the protective gear and check the crop, I guess. Thanks for the heads-up.
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Date: 2008-07-15 10:59 am (UTC)Watching the figs with eager anticipation...
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Date: 2008-07-16 12:13 am (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thimbleberry
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