It definitely depends on the state you are in too.

Mine did that with poppies. 😂

My grandmother did too but she never said anything about the police. But it would explain why her bushes were somewhat hidden at the back of her garden bed.

I never even knew that the bushes had ever been targeted until today!

Yet another freedom taken away, slowly but surely. But done so slow you don’t notice … like the crab boiled to death. I had gooseberry gelato and it was absolutely the best ice cream I’ve ever had. Tart, hint of sweetness…. And all currants are delicious.

You should try growing it!!! Very, very rewarding. Every summer I can go outside and eat handfuls.

I’m British as well. I live in Maryland and I love black currants. I’m very sad to not see black currant products available either. There is a farm that grows red currants, they sell out in minutes! My Gran grew gooseberries when I was a kid. I barely remember what they tasted like! It’s hard enough to get a decent cup of tea!

I am from continental Europe but, truth be told, I’ve never much liked blackcurrants. My mother used to make a redcurrant jelly that was to die for!

I agree with you. It’s really hard to find the black current products here but we don’t have a European grocer nearby. We always get some when we visit a larger town.

I've never had them, but after this video I'm super curious about them. Thanks for bringing up the idea of finding a local European grocery store!

In Czechia and Slovakia (+ probably other central European countries as well) people make traditional currant and gooseberry wines and they are absolutely delicious! The process is often not as sophisticated as making classic wine, but it is kind of a fermented drink with a small alcohol percentage. Sometimes it's similar to wine, sometimes it's sparkling, depending on the used method. The black currant wine is especially delicious. Also, the mix of red and black currant with gooseberry is amazing. In southern parts of Slovakia, people make the same “wine“ made of mulberries or cherries as well.

I first saw red currants in the grocery store when I was about 22. Having never heard of them before, I got some to try. They were p good

If you drink you go to hell when you die. You'll get it bad for selling it to other people. Stop now.

We had both growing up in PA. Might've been remnants from before they were banned. There us nothing like a gooseberry or currant. I love that flavor.

Currants are used for wine even in Finland, though not very commonly (although almost any garden has them and black currant juice is a stable here).

Why did you hate going?

@@riaagarwal6840grandma obv

@@riaagarwal6840Funny uncle?

@@riaagarwal6840for many children being around the very old is uncomfortable because it’s like a touch of reality of what life looks like, it feels uncomfortable and foreign - the parents are usually modern, young, don’t smell like old people, have a different sound and mannerisms, so the child is accustomed to a very young feeling in their surroundings but when they go to someone like great grandmother who may be up to 100 years old in some cases, they get this sort of almost culture shock (kind of how it feels like). Can’t really put it into words but you get the point… the child understand the person is their family but they don’t have an emotional comprehension of the person’s closeness to them or may feel as if they are being smothered or it’s just weird ya know? Not always but for some it’s this way. Can also be because the child would rather spend the time at home or with friends doing something fun rather than sitting around in a rather boring older style interior of grandparents house. Usually it’s fun for the kid if the grandparents have something entertaining for the child… on my father’s side, I didn’t enjoy the majority of the experience except for this hand water pump from a well pipe near the enterance where they would get water so I would always volunteer to pump out the sandy water to get it clear and then would fill jugs of water for a couple hours to help and then would get all the gooseberries and other berries in the garden and then would eat dinner which was hit or miss sometimes to my tastes but always a generally okay time, sometimes more fun than others… it was more fun if my parents were showing me around rather than me having to interact with grandparents directly because it felt a little awkward because I felt as if I needed to be very appreciative despite feeling like an ordinary kid who wants to just run around and be a rascal. On my mothers side it was the opposite way, I had a ton of fun but that is because they almost raised me 50% of the time so I was very used to them and comfortable around them, plus they had a ton of fun with me and for some reason I felt very happy around them… on my dad’s side I only saw them sparingly when we were on our way home from my mom’s grandparents summer house and would swing by to just say hi for a couple hours, I never spent a day alone with them whereas I’d spend all summer with my mom’s parents. You get the point… 🤷‍♂️

Come to russia or the baltics, we have those.

It is common knowledge that grapes are toxic to dogs. You might want to research the things you feed to your dogs

​@@Weedtrooper You are absolutely right. I know more about grape toxicity now. I believed if a dog ate them in quantity they could have a toxic reaction but didn't realize even small amounts could be a problem. Once in a while, like once a month, my girlfriend would give her a peeled one, because the peel has the high concentration of tartaric acid. The dog wouldn't eat it. She would just take the peeled grape in her mouth and spit it out a few times and acted curious about what she was tasting. She must have felt it was toxic but liked the taste, like we do with certain toxins, like ammonium chloride. That's why my girlfriend thought the lone gooseberry was an old peeled grape kicking around. The dog, Coco, a head strong but loving Chesapeake Bay retriever, made it through life in great shape, we took her to the vet regularly and she lived to be 19. If in Scandinavia, don't eat to much salmiak.

I'm guessing you didn't marry her?

@@heyokaempath5802 No, We split up. It wasn't because of the gooseberry.

​@@Weedtrooper It wasn't common knowledge 30 years ago, though it was probably a good idea to mention it to get the info out there.

Well, those of us who grew up with grandparents who grew currants and gooseberries now grow our own. I love them, but not many people have heard of them besides, maybe my children and my family.

A couple people have them here in the states. My parents did in oregon. I think quite a few hippies in oregon or Washington have them

Yeah we had gooseberries, black, red and white currants in my garden growing up.

As a child I would have FAR preferred currents and gooseberries at Christmas to the Rommegrot and Lutefisk that was sometimes on offer.

My grandpa was norweigen, our last name Brandvold and he grew currants and Buffalo berries and made me proud of the heritage he cared so deeply about. I miss him so much it's hard to think about.

In Sweden they eat a lot of Lingon (so in Finland must be). I believe it competes with red currants. Its easy to pick in forests and is even less tart. I could make a confiture with less than quater sugar to berries in weight. Love cultivated raspberries, both red and black. Have them plenty in my parents garden in Ukraine.

Now that’s a precious memory if I’ve ever seen one.

I made many gooseberry pies when I was first married then our friend died and the property he grew them on was sold. Never had a gooseberry source again until I bought a plant last year. Waiting for a good harvest to make a pie again after forty years.

Please share the recipe

Used to make them for my granddad. He had gooseberry bushes in his back garden.

@@voloshanca Use any tart cherry recipe, or rhubarb.

You REBEL, you!! LOL HOw wonderful that we share similar memories of a wonderful fruit, and can pass along the information to others. 😄

I'm glad to see a sensible conversation about the fruit... Most popular chats are insane right now. Anyway how difficult is it to petition the Department of Agriculture to fund a study to research which states can safely cultivate currants and gooseberries? America is big enough to have a little bit of everything.

​@@john2g1the robber barons will not allow it. It's all controlled through the United Nations. America along with Panama became Full Member STATES in Aug. 1945.

@@john2g1 not that easy bro. where you live? obviously not in the US

@@aps7777 I live in the US and it is that easy. Ask Ajit Pai what happened when he tried to eliminate net neutrality. As average US citizens we have the least amount of influence on the Judicial branch, limited influence on the Legislative branch and collective power to influence the Executive branch. Side note all of the US Departments, Bureaus and Agencies are the Executive branch. The Executive limited to just the office of the President.

They are everywhere in the uk growing in waste land. I normally pick slow berries for gin from the side of rural roads

At least in Minnesota for sure and I'm pretty sure in other states as well!

I used to pick gooseberries in my grandmas garden as a kid and always wondered why I’ve never seen them anywhere else.

Peter Rabbit ate goose berries.

Ah and tea with black currant leaves 💓

​@@iz6566and mint

grandpa's gooseberries always hit different

@@filin_-vn4fj you filthy animal 😘

They are to the north what citrus fruits are to the south! Great also with meat!

Hundreds! We need someone who's willing to be a Johnny Appleseed and reseed these all over the US! Not you personally, of course, but it would be nice to have someone to do it.

Polski living in America here... Growing up in Western Massachusetts, we had green gooseberries (agrest) growing in the back yard. We didn't plant them, they were already there before we moved there. It was such a treat to pick and eat them!

Greetings from Poland Anja. We have red currants, black currant, and gooseberry bushes in our yard. They are indeed delicious. Especially the gooseberries.

Компот 😂

Wow I haven't had kompot in a long time! Time to make some, thanks!

Czech here; in addition to all these, we make currant wine 😇

My husband is from Wyoming. I didn’t know what a currants or gooseberry’s were until last year.

They're all over the place here in SD. If you know what you're looking for you can collect quite a few to make your own syrup and jelly.

I came up from FL, where wild muscadine grapes grow everywhere. I could eat as many as I liked, plus tons of tart blackberries. Now that I'm here I will have to find and try these treasures. My family came from Scandinavian roots, I always wanted to try cloudberries as well.

@@OriginalGlorfindel Just keep your head on a swivel XD My ex and I found a patch of them at Yellowstone, and started getting a snack... and then I found fresh bear tracks. A couple years later, I interrupted a grizzly that was having breakfast in a big thicket of buffaloberry.

@@typacsk Oh yeah, the black bear back home loved the wild grapes and blackberry thickets. Gotta keep my head on a swivel out here, no forests to hide them, but the bear and cats are much bigger here! I've seen panther back home in swamps, and one of the mountain lions here already. Just never run across bear in either place. We had coyotes and red wolves... I expect y'all's will be larger here as well.

Additionally, white ones are best raw, sweetest of them all.

Not every place is the same though either. I almost bought some black currants from Home Depot in Missouri. Not sure if other states are like that but there’s some populations, especially older, that know if currants. If you find the right farmers market someone will have some currant product there. I’ve also seen jams for sale in Idaho.

That jam is to die for!

yeah and we are the only country to poison the population with flouride and chlorine combined in all water supplies... Get rid of the healthy disease fighting berries in favor of inedible wood and polute the water with toxins. Coincidence?

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My grandmother also made an awesome gooseberry pie. She lived in central Missouri. Last time I had a piece was in the 1980s. Nobody seems to make them anymore.

Exquisite memory.

What a wonderful memory!

Sounds like a real 🍑!! I miss her and idk her, but I think I do you.. in my own grandmother

I loved this story!❤

Do you remember what market in Iowa you purchased them? Yum.

@@jnoble9032 It was in Ames. It was one of those seasonal things without a fixed store.

Was looking for a comment because I just ran into/purchased gooseberries after never seeing them before, and I live in Iowa. The taste initially hits me as being similar to the berry flavor from Captain Crunch, before turning a bit more sour.

@@MetalkattNot to add an additional comment but no joke, also got my gooseberries in Ames. Wheatfield is the one selling them but I’m not sure how long they will be in stock.

@@TheRunningLeopard WHEATFIELD, that was it!! It's been so long since I was up there, I'd forgotten.

Also Canadian; My family planted a few golden currant bushes ten years ago... only two of them took (on the south side of the house where it gets the most sun in summer and also extra water from the roof runoff). They now measure (roughly) 1.5m^3, and I get 3-4 cups of berries every summer. And, yeah - the local animals don't seem to care for them. Unlike the saskatoon bushes, where the berries are GONE if you do not pick them within 1-2 days of ripening.

We have a dreadful time trying to get anything to grow on our property. I am going to be looking into these 🤨

@@sarahprice659 we have a bush of green goose berries here in central Europe. It really takes 0 maintenance, it's suited even for hills with low quality soil and it's the most cold resistant fruit bush I've seen in my life and the taste is so pleasant. Btw it's called Angrešt (Angresht) in my language :D

Take the leaves and brew them like a tea. Add some mint. It's just delicious.

blessings!!!

I grew up and live in Latvia, and can confirm that in my childhood current berries was a common snack in summer. :D

As they have been in Russia.

Marion berries are actually a strain of blackberries developed in a university in Oregon.

@@cindyloveland7012 Thank you for clarifying that. My mother grew those and made jelly out of them. It was delicious. Definitely not gooseberries! I'd say Oregon State University because it is considered an agricultural college with degree programs such as forestry.

Morels are the same as cash in Montana if you take your haul to a fancy restaurant!

What do you serve gooseberries/ gooseberry jelly with?

@@voloshanca I don’t like gooseberry jelly, too sweet. Gooseberries off the vine and as a tart pie (1 1/2 cups of sugar instead of 3 cups) are the only ways I’ll eat them.

Wild gooseberries are not rare and are of better flavor than domestic gooseberries.

Does she still grow them? Can you sell the seed?

Boysenberry is amazing. It's still a big thing in Oregon, especially in yogurts and local pies.

Invented by Mr. & Mrs. Knott… Ala Knott’s Berry Farm in SoCal.

Boysenberry yogurt used to be the best flavor and it’s now nearly impossible to find.

YES;(! WTH happened to all of the Boysenberries?!??;((

@@Jeni-ow1kl They are not a naturally-growing berry, but were made by humans. They are a hybrid of Loganberries, Raspberries and Blackberries.

Are you growing them? What state are you in? I'm wondering how far south they will grow...

I would love to grow some. I’m in Maine but have never seen any for sale.

@@froggydoodle808 In NC, and they grow happily here.

​@@emilyelizabeth8757 currants are banned since they are a carrier of fungi that annihilates wild blueberries. That may be mentioned in the video, I didn't get through it 100 percent. I didn't know about the blister rust though. Between the white pines and the blueberries being at risk let's just say we can live without these fruits in Maine, yeah?

​@@emilyelizabeth8757Actually knew this history from my mother so my wife and I decided in 2k to not add currents to our edible landscape. Our white pines are descended from a glorious hundred foot example that lived near Lake Winola PA until a new owner built a bigger deck. I won't live to see it but I want them to have a chance to show. I will make do with dried currents in my Welsh cookies.

Me too, in Northern NM, when can the berries be harvested? I'm a Wild Forager 🌱🌿🫐 Gracias/ Thanks

This video made me want some so bad. I had them when studying in Germany, because they're everywhere. Just go into a shop and you'll find black currant juice rather than orange juice! I bought a cutting of one with roots and i'm impatiently waiting to see if I can get some to grow now!

I'm in Quebec, Canada and would serve the same to my children but with blueberries and raspberries and replace sugar with a drizzle of maple syrup. It was their favorite snack.

What do you serve them with in Poland?

@@voloshanca eat them raw or make a jam. Or pie

@@br4insful and what the jam is served with?

They never disappeared in the US either, this video is a farse trying to conflate a ban on trade with prohibition of possession.

Yes, I’m from northern Canada and Gooseberries are as plentiful here as anywhere else that I’ve seen them in this country.

Oh cool! My parents were originally French- and English-speaking from different parts of Ontario and it's great to hear that currants are also common in the French subcultures. I know for sure they are well-loved amongst British descendants because my mom has currant bushes she transplanted from her grandfather's farm, and those were likely descended from plants brought with his family from England.

I live in Quebec (French Canadian) and when I was 10-12 yo our neighbors had a bush with white berries that looked like this. I'm pretty sure it was exactly this, I just remember it tasted sour with a nice flavor. Never seen those anywhere ever again.

There are a couple of Canadian breweries that produce blackcurrant flavoured beer. Very tasty.

The zest needs to eliminated from the recipe for fruit cake! There are plenty of English fruit cakes that can be tried.😁

Instead of candied fruit, use dried fruit. Fruitcake can be quite good!

@@aimee-lynndonovan6077 Is that what turns it into concrete?

@@michaell8269 The Tea Brack I make uses candied orange peel and lemon peel ONLY, and I get that from another baker who makes it herself. All of the dried and candied fruits are soaked in a hot mix of black tea, whiskey and brown sugar, left to cool overnight. Gold raisins Black raisins Zante Currants (they are all I can find locally) The aforementioned candied peels Dried Montmorency cherries Dried apricots (snipped into small pieces), I try to get the Slab Apricots that Trader Joe's has on occasion....when they're in stock, I buy a ton to have on hand. Sometimes I substitute with the mixed raisins I can find at BJ's, for the gold and black raisins.

@@eldermillennial8330 Fruit cake is concrete for you? Heavens, where are you from? I'm from Washington state, and Mom's recipe was for a light cake with a fresh orange juice syrup poured over the top while it was hot. It was golden, buttery and tender, and I grew up with a taste for candied fruit because of that cake. Our family Christmas tradition was for us kids to make mini-loaves of fruitcake, wrap them in foil and tartan ribbons, and carry them round to the neighbors and people in our village who had no family close by.

Black raspberries and red mulberries are so good

I often find forest floor gooseberry but rarely see fruit. Midwest

@@mathewdon1490 they need sunlight we found some in the old windbreak and cleared all the underbrush, which gave it some much-needed sunlight and we got a decent amount of fruit on it

Exactly, the way they spread made me wonder why no one was planting them. You literally have to do nothing. Just drop a few berries in the grass, permanent food growing in the upcoming years.

You can contain them by growing them in a large container, the size about the radius of the bush.

European here: in my childhood, we had red currant and goosberry, but grafted onto some very thin, roughly meter tall woody stalks that thus never spread. They needed support though, as the weight of the fruits would bend the whole mini-trees to the ground, risking breaking it in half.

I find this strange - I've never seen gooseberry bushes spreading out too much - they def don't do that where I live, I grew up with them.

​@@peggysue1725 I think she is talking about Blackcurrant/Redcurrant. I live in Europe and Gooseberry(green and dark violet variety) bushes look to me like sterile. Gooseberry is hard to spread without human help. But Blackcurrant/Redcurrant spreads like maple trees.

I believe you would not encounter much fungi infection in California anyway. Our gooseberries in Ukraine suffer from this type of pest the worst when there is a damp season. Which almost never happens even in Northern California. And black and red currants are even much more resilient/

Every community should have this thought in mind. Sometimes I think of going to public places to seed food LOL

@@sincerely-b Do it , i do ! Good humans have always thought about the next generation . I actually purchased 3 cheery trees and put them straight into my local woods last year , also have planted a few blueberry cuttings every year . It is a drop in the ocean , but if every one done a little bit it would start to show.

Which park was this? I live in Utah and would love to go check it out.

@@ribeserythrocarpum918 Mouth of Provo valley, going up a hill across the street and river from a small community college called “Scenic View Academy”.

My guess is that these are clove/golden/Crandall currants. I have not ever noticed them to get WPBR. And their fruit is quite mild, like a mild grape. Not the sometimes bracing muskiness of a European black currant.

Berries left to the birds is not waste! They probably need them more than you do.

@@mollyheyer6056 As birds can eat a great variety of fruit that humans find toxic, especially North American birds and their native North American fruits. Don't make it about the flying shitters or someone will absolutely seed any place they can with peppercorn for a tasty birdy snack. Them birbs love them peppercorns. I reckon you also love cats, you hypocrite.

Ive tried Cranberry and Blueberry but they don`t come close to my 3rd favourate - Blackcurrants! Similarly, you`re missing out on English Chocolate, Hershey v Bournville. I`D take a Blackcurrant Jam (jelly!) Buttie over a White Pine Sandwich any day! PS I`ll sti l c laim LOGANBERRIES &Raspberries are even Tastier!

My mom always grew black currants in every house we lived in while growing up and she used them in jams/jellies.

The "international" section. I kid. But honestly its even hard to come by in Canada. Maybe not as hard, but still hard.

@@Ketchuporkatsup Raspberries are highly perishable. They rot rather fast.

I've lived in the US my whole life, but I've had black currant quite a few times, but most of those may have been during visits to the UK. I knew some of the history here before, and I know the first time was in the US. I was most surprised that so few Americans have ever had it.

I also ate gooseberry pie in Indiana....Monticello. Was my Granddad's favorite!

I guess it’s an old German receipt. My grandma made every year gooseberry pie for us

You can purchase frozen gooseberries in Shipshewana IN and other places in Amish areas.

I love that the plant lives on! ❤

If you reeeeally want to plant those berries, there is quite an easy and simple way to sneak in the seeds.

I think I know where you going with this, and thanks for the thought, but I'm not that desperate. ;D Plus, I'm not the greatest gardener, so I'm not confident I could nurture seeds successfully. BTW, Happy Holidays to all!

i want. 🥲

We had them in our garden in MPLS, MN under the irrigation line with asparagus. Dad liked them, but there was never enough to do anything with them. Until I found a patch in the woods, likely spread by birds. I made currant jelly and not knowing that currant jelly NEVER sets up (a better syrup!), I kept adding sugar. The batch became a red brick. Sweet, sticky, but inedible.

@operator1192 did you have to get a permit to grow them?

@@p0tmuffin69 no we can buy, grow, and propagate them freely now

@@ecouturehandmades5166 oh haha that’s wild, what a story haha. I hate to say but I probably would have done the same thing. I’m planning on making preserves or jam with them but I guess I’ll be adding pectin haha

I grew up in the Ozarks too. We also had Gooseberry bushes and and Gooseberry cobbler was my Grandfathers favorite dessert.

Me too, I was raised at Blanche Mo and gooseberries were literally everywhere.

We mix mulberries with ours, you have to add sugar, too... but the mulberries and gooseberries are ripe at the same time, and the mulberries need something tart to go with them.

Green ones are the best!😊

Really the green berries? I'll have to try that. Maybe a thousand unripe berries on the bushes in my yard. Thank you for the info

Currants grow on bushes, not on trees.

Unless he was a squirrel, that is physically impossible

@@LV-426... There are both bushes and trees. The tree looks like a small cherry. Sad, that delight in trying to correct rather than understand and learn.

@@knullization How about learning from an older person rather than smugly trying to correct them. I have seen the very tree he climbed as a little boy. Yes, there are currant Trees. They are like a small cherry. Google Scholars do miss so much.

@@davidsauls9542 Lol, no. There are no currant trees.

It's strange how not many people keep edibles in their yards anymore. My yard sounds a bit like your grandmother's. Food is growing out of every corner LOL

I learned about them from British literature, too. I’ve never tasted either.🙂

I had the resistant currants planted too--then ripped them out--New Hampshire has discovered blister rust growing on supposedly "immune" varieties of currants--meaning the blister rust is evolving to overcome the immunity and potentially cause devastation to White Pine forests again where currants are planted. We live in a forest of White Pines, so sadly, I had to choose our big beautiful trees over the currant bushes. I don't want to take a chance. If you don't have White Pines nearby, then the currants are still an option. I do love the currants, but replaced them with Honeyberry and Blueberry bushes.

@@ravenwolf7128 That sounds a pretty responsible and wise attitude Shame its lacking in a small but significant proportion of our species

Are the gooseberries found in the north central US and Canada the same as the gooseberries referred to in this video? They look nothing alike.

So gooseberry/current plants made the fatal sin of threatening the profits of lumber concerns. And thus, the death sentence.

I treat my garden with various organic compounds to treat, among other things, an occasional rust on my tomatoes. I find it hard to believe that one can't treat the berries and break the life cycle.

We are outside the mail order plant buying window currently but a quick search will yield sources for next spring. I had both black and red and found the black both harder to pick due to the more solitary berry vs the red lake current plus the birds produced dark stains after eating so I remoced those. lost the reds to verticillum and in rebuild mode, first minor crop of red lake due soon. I mix my Heritage rasberry and the red current for a very nice jam- no pectin needed as the currents are loaded with it.

​@@martinhill486I've never had currants, but when I lived in Germany, my neighbor had Gooseberry bushes. I loved them, and didn't know why we didn't have them in the US.

Roxanna Weaver are you talking about Little Goose Creek in Sheridan Wyoming? There used to be really good Trout fishing there also. There still is trout but not in the numbers there used to be!

@@stevenhall8964 That's the one.

Funny enough, there is a "cape gooseberry" unrelated to the Ribes gooseberries that IS related to nightshades (tomatoes, tomatillo, etc). obviously not poisonous since it's used for food and quite delicious.

@@ivy_47 Cool! Thanks for sharing that.

That’s cool man. Glad you got to enjoy them that way.

I grew up in a family of 9 kids in the 50s and 60s. We had a hedge in front of our house and my dad planted gooseberries mixed in the hedge to keep us kids out of it because the gooseberries had long thorns.

Smart to be cautious, even at that age!

Honestly kinda jealous lol

Since the ban was lifted though, we can have them now in the US. I bought some from a farm or horticulture store online and look forward to having berries eventually (not this year). Love the taste though!

@@ancientromewithamy Out of curiosity, are you planting them in any shade?

@@Odood19 I have them in pots for now until they get a bit bigger, I plan to read some more about them before deciding a permanent spot!

@@Odood19 A friend told me to hurry up and put them in ground so the roots could get established before winter, I put them near the fence near the blueberries which have also done well in the partly sun, part-shade there for many years, crossing my fingers! I got consort type but I am wanting Titania as well, I think. Consort are "reliably self pollinating," but titania have a better yield.

The reason why some fruits or vegetables are not commonly for sale in shops, is because "they do not transport well" without degrading, or looking bad. So for example, Tomatoes or Strawberries as sold in shops will be varieties which have been bred to transport without bruising or going bad, and still looking nice on the shop shelf. That's why some folks reckon that their old fashioned "home grown" fruits taste better. Those old varieties may have better taste, but not look as perfect and may bruise more easily etc.

That’s why gooseberries are so precious to me. It’s a childhood summer flavour, that you can only get during the summer. One company in my country now makes sweets with gooseberries coated in chocolate, but the flavour is a bit lost in sugar :)

My grandparents in Iowa had two gooseberry bushes in their yard. As a little kid, I thought they were too puckery. Now I wish I could get some of those--which, aside from maybe one or two pies in a year were not used.