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Subject: Re: Blueberries -- fresh vs frozen
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:32:03 +0000
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On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:43:10 +0000, Mike Duffy wrote:

> On 2025-03-20, dsi1 wrote:
>
>> Where do the wild blueberries
>> grow? Alongside the road? In the forests?
>
> Full sun, thus not too deep into tall forests.
>
>> How are they harvested and by whom?
>> Nomads? Mountain people?
>
> My brother is one of the 'serious' ones. By that
> he means that you need to use topographic maps to
> find areas that are at least an hour or two walk
> from any 4-wheel ATV trail or canoe-navigable waterway.
>
> Otherwise the bushes will be depleted by weekenders
> just going in as a family affair to get enough for
> a pie or so.
>
> Be sure to bring:
>
> - The biggest bottle of bear spray you can get ahold of.
> My brother was a police officer, so he has one of the
> para-military crowd-control models that can shoot a
> stream of concentrated capsicum a dozen meters or so.
>
> - Depending on wind, an insect bonnet can be helpful.
> Remember, blackflies feed only on blueberry pollen
> and on bird or mammal blood.
>
> - Enough porous (heavy-duty paper) bags to prevent the
> berries from loosing their 'bloom'. (The dust on the
> surface that gives them their blue colour EVERY time
> they touch anything, including each other. It you
> overfill, the bootom berries will loose much of their
> bloom during your return to civilization, drastically
> reducing their wholesale value. If you are lucky(?),
> you may end up returning by walking twice as far
> carrying half the load each segment.
>
> - Standard bush 'overnight' bag. (Firestarter /
>  GPS / Cell phone, flashlight, freon horn,
> 1st aid kit, water, DEET, mosquito bonnet,
> BGBs (tent / raincoat / ground sheet) &c)
>
>> Is it just a marketing term?
>
> No. The bushes are in no way trimmed,
> fertilized, weeded, &c. They are wild.


The paradox of India:

Punjab is over 60% vegetarian, but Tandoori chicken and butter chicken
are its most popular dishes outside the state...

Tamil Nadu is less than 1% vegetarian, but its “pure veg” idly, dosa,
sambhar, pongal, etc are its most popular dishes outside the state...

🐸

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