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I don't understand this (this is genuine puzzlement, not sarcasm); Yorkshire folk are supposed to be canny, but there's oodles of blackberries up the top of my hill and nobody's picking them but me. I mean, elderflowers, you have to already know that you can use them, but... berries! The supermarkets sell 'em, and very expensively too!
(All right, the nettles, thistles, and potential for breaking your ankle and getting stuck in a scary nest of brambles and your feeble calls for help going unheard until you perish and are eaten by dogs may have something to do with some of the patches not getting picked, but there are also bushes right beside the path. Why is nobody taking advantage?)

*thinks smugly of blackberries in freezer*