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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 02:03:33 +0000
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On Mon, 2 Jun 2025 22:59:18 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> They are a little more common here now than they used to be. My wife had
> told me there is a fiddlehead farm in Port Colborne. I did an online
> search and found that this is the only fiddlehead farm in North America.
> Well, according to an 18 year old news article, it was the only one.
> They used to be picked in the wild in New Brunswick. They were seldom
> available and were expensive.  This week's batch was quite cheap... for
> fiddleheads.
>
>
> I used to have issues with the price. IMO, they had a taste similar to
> asparagus. They are available at the same time. It was hard to spend a
> lot more for fiddleheads when I would get the flavour fix from asparagus
> for a fraction of the price. I usually opted for the much cheaper
> asparagus.
>
> I don't recall ever seeing frozen fiddleheads. They have always been a
> seasonal thing for us.

Those ferns don't have much taste but if I see those at the farmer's
market, I'll get some. The ones here are mostly foraged in the Forrest.
They are quite delicate things.

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