>> > Blueberries are my fav-- blueberries on anything. Lezlie
>> >
>> =smile=
>>
>> What I *LONG* for are the blackberries of home -- there was this hillside
>> about a block from the house, steady supply of water from the leaky don't
>> know how many decades old pipe that took the dregs of Fall River across
>> the Pit River valley to water the Knoch (pronounced Nox) fields. South
>> east exposure.
>>
>> Those were the ONERIEST brambles ever (positively carniverous).
>> You dressed for rattlesnake when you went picking -- leather gloves, long
>> pants, long sleeves, boots....
>> But I have NEVER had berries so huge and so sweet.
>
>I feel that way about the strawberries we picked in Australia... big, dark
>red and the image of sweet juicy ripeness perfected. We spent days int eh
>fields picking them... Kevin and I eating as many as we picked until we
>thought we'd burst, but they were wonderful.
>
>I haven't had a proper strawberry since 
>
>the stuff in the stores now may *look* like strawberries, but they're hard,
>sour, and no matter how red they are on the outside, the inside is but the
>palest imitation of strawberry flesh... pinkish-white abomination. :/
>(though I keep on buying them in hope...)
>
>>Ahhh yes ... the fat ripe strawberrie of my Aunt Hazel's garden.  The berries
in the stre are truly an abomination -- and I won't *even* mention the peaches
... Farmers of N. America, you are letting me down. Lezlie

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