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[shark_hat]

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*

Comments

Berries

[(Anonymous)]

'E lass, dost tha' not know that good Yorkshire folk won't eat fruit - that's for t'whippets!

T'exception o' course being in't form o' glass a Chateau de Chasselas - very passable.

Obadiah

Re: Berries

[shark-hat.livejournal.com]

You can't give a whippet fruit!
[/Vic Reeves impression]

If'n they won't eat fruit, where does apple pie with cheese come in, eh?

Re: Berries

[(Anonymous)]

You can give a whippet fruit! It just makes it run.. (*eew*)

Apple pie with cheese is the culinary equivalent of a Jehovah's witness - it does not come in. It's just weird and vaguely sinister. Though strangely apple and cheese (uncooked, you understand) is quite nice. You've now got me wondering what religion raw apple and cheese could represent. Methodism?

Incidentally, this reminds me of one of the most enjoyable experiences of my life - getting drunk in the bar of a methodist conference centre. Wine and irony - an unbeatable combination. :)