tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32537618.post1761627378455938470..comments2023-08-26T03:10:26.242-07:00Comments on Geezer Chronicles: Berry Good TimesaAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02781609606261382365noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32537618.post-48176563310826991252009-05-22T17:58:56.248-07:002009-05-22T17:58:56.248-07:00Yummmmmmmm what RobV wrote. Gonna make some this ...Yummmmmmmm what RobV wrote. Gonna make some this weekend for the grands...........DammitWomannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10266373668091379773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32537618.post-85352257196340643992009-05-21T13:21:03.458-07:002009-05-21T13:21:03.458-07:00Another tasty way to enjoy the berries is to add s...Another tasty way to enjoy the berries is to add some to your pancake batter before cooking the pancakes. My favorite is whole wheat pancake batter. Add about a cup of berries, and maybe some walnut pieces. Top it with some melted butter and genuine maple syrup, and you've got a berry delicious meal.Rob V.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11365046428431463232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32537618.post-32158372380590428382009-05-21T10:59:57.571-07:002009-05-21T10:59:57.571-07:00Hmmm - I live in year-round strawberry country. N...Hmmm - I live in year-round strawberry country. No worms in them (that I know of)DammitWomannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10266373668091379773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32537618.post-2057339317335629292009-05-19T17:16:05.080-07:002009-05-19T17:16:05.080-07:00Worms?! Ewww...Thanks for sharing. A couple of fri...Worms?! Ewww...Thanks for sharing. A couple of friends will go blackberry picking. Since they're nice people I'll definitely share the 411! ;) Miss you!jonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32537618.post-18706407262887094372009-05-18T13:36:00.000-07:002009-05-18T13:36:00.000-07:00Well....M'Lady made me a luchtime snack today of f...Well....M'Lady made me a luchtime snack today of fresh, chilled blackberries and strawberries and blueberries with some ritz crackers on the side........<br /><br />When I was still teaching Army Rangers silly stuff about warfare and such, wild black and rasp-berries were the one truly wonderful treat to visiting Tacoma.<br /><br />It amazed me that they grew all along the highway.<br /><br />Oh, and bugs? Back in those days, I'd eat anything......I'm voting on aA's side this time.<br /><br />Besides, blackberries are classified a shrubbery aren't they?<br /><br />Everbodies knows I love shrubberry.Wollf Howlsatmoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13326431237011861478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32537618.post-76775154057319811712009-05-18T11:55:00.000-07:002009-05-18T11:55:00.000-07:00Wow! Who'd a thunk it? Well, I know those little...Wow! Who'd a thunk it? Well, I know those little seeds can send people to the hospital real quick if they have pollups in the 'ol digestive tract. <br /><br />I remember as a kid scrambling down a river bank and into stinging nettle. Man, do those things hurt! Like wasps on every leaf.invigilator_texnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32537618.post-20715727012824409912009-05-18T11:31:00.000-07:002009-05-18T11:31:00.000-07:00Speaking for myself, I HATE EVERYTHING about them....Speaking for myself, I HATE EVERYTHING about them. Taste, texture, purplish stains, thorns, overgrowth, etc. Now I know lots of people like the berries, and that's cool. Eat all you want as long as you don't sneak them into something I'm eating. <br /><br />But they grow like crazy out here. They're just a big prickly weed that happens to have a fruit some people enjoy. The thorns are tough enough to pop my bike tires. They like the wet, so all the riverbanks are overrun by them, making it hard to get to the water except at boat ramps and stuff. If you leave your lawnmower or RV or whatever parked in one place too long it'll have blackberries engulfing it. Better hurry up and dig it out, or by the end of summer it'll look like a scene from a bleepin' horror movie!<br /><br />When I was a kid there was a lumber yard that gave out free wooden yardsticks as an ad promotion. We'd whittle an edge onto the yardsticks and use them like swords to hack paths through the blackberry patches. Those memories are the only vaguely good thing I can think about blackberries.innominatushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08365636738022339985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32537618.post-64170337847170681022009-05-18T10:51:00.000-07:002009-05-18T10:51:00.000-07:00Blackberry hate??? I'm so puzzled by this. Pray ...Blackberry hate??? I'm so puzzled by this. Pray tell, friends, tell me why. Is it the taste? The stickers? The seeds? All the above? I have to side with Geeze on this issue. I love those things and would suffer almost anything for a pound or two.invigilator_texnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32537618.post-40211886038510014862009-05-18T09:40:00.000-07:002009-05-18T09:40:00.000-07:00My sympathies to the Oreo-ganians whom I have rile...My sympathies to the Oreo-ganians whom I have riled: I am sorry that you have such a tainted experience with the blackberry, p'raps you want me to send some fire ants up there?aAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02781609606261382365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32537618.post-9045010604806157582009-05-17T19:29:00.000-07:002009-05-17T19:29:00.000-07:00BLACKBERRIES!!!! arrrg!
innominatus is right!
S...BLACKBERRIES!!!! arrrg!<br /><br />innominatus is right! <br /><br />Sure: they taste good when they are ripe...but the pain in the YOU-KNOW-WHAT, they are around here; they are no where worth the trouble! <br /><br />I don't know how many times I took deisel mixed with gasoline, --a machete', and a match, --tractor, and 245T herbicide to KILL them DEAD! They're as bad as Scotch Broom! ARRRRGGGG!!!!charleydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14568536454377690745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32537618.post-39826916217669158402009-05-17T18:00:00.000-07:002009-05-17T18:00:00.000-07:00Har! We have nothing on the Texas Gulf Coast that ...Har! We have nothing on the Texas Gulf Coast that is on both the beneficial and pest lists. <br /><br />Feral hogs are pretty close; some people trap and eat them, others trap and sell them to places that export them to California, but most folks around here with land or deer leases would rather that they dissolve in rainwater. <br /><br />Fire ants are much worse than blackberries, cuz nothing eats them, they sting all at once when they're all in position on your lower legs, and they get in your house. I couldn't even begin to count how many dead baby birds I have seen on the ground after a short fall from the nest and a concerted fire ant attack.aAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02781609606261382365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32537618.post-48339798395240236122009-05-17T17:48:00.000-07:002009-05-17T17:48:00.000-07:00OK, we've found the one thing we disagree about. ...OK, we've found the one thing we disagree about. Blackberries are evil. All jams, pies, spreads and other derivatives of blackberries are just condensed evil. I know I'm in the minority here, but I can't stand them.<br /><br />Here is western Oregon wild blackberries grow EVERYWHERE. Nobody farms them. We curse them. Oh, yeah, people like the berries. But the bushes grow like crazy. If they get started on your land they will try to take over - expect years of chemicals and machete work to eradicate them. Find a nice clear path to go mountain biking on? Ride it again the next weekend and get shredded by stickers that weren't even visible there a week before. <br /><br />I bet CharleyD could tell you plenty of blackberry horror stories, too. He's a few miles closer to the coast than me and I bet he gets 'em even worse.innominatushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08365636738022339985noreply@blogger.com