I’m still enjoying the volunteer blackberries from my untended garden, although they have been frozen. I was thinking I’d like some this winter, but I can’t resist them now.
The blueberries weren’t too plentiful so I only enjoyed a few, leaving the rest for those who live out there. Those wild berries are comparatively small, but they are twice the flavor of commercial berries.
But if 0x0 is 0, it can’t be twice.
A lot of (city?) people think commercial blueberries DO taste of blueberry…but I get what you mean, math and taste don’t add right!
Trust me on this. Clovers. The big kind. The stems taste like sour apple candy. I’m dead serious. Just don’t eat to many or it may cause indigestion.
It’s been a great year for maitake here. I’ve been having them for dinner every few days, and also cooked and froze 18 quarts. They are one of my favorite mushrooms.
I find the discussion of wild vs. domestic blueberry flavor interesting, because having eaten far more than my fair share of both, I can honestly say that I find the domestic ones to be far more flavorful. Wild blueberries always just taste sweet to me when fresh - they are still fun to find, but a bit bland compared to domestic berries, which have a tartness and unique “blueberry flavor” that I do not detect in the wild version when eaten raw. Cooking wild blueberries brings out the blueberry flavor, but I still end up wanting to mix them with something tart. Domestic blueberries come right of the bush perfect in my opinion.
On the other hand, domestic black raspberries are nearly tasteless and a very poor imitation of wild black raspberries!
In the Pacific Northwest, where huckleberries far outnumber blueberries, I find the wild huckleberries mostly just tart – especially the Red Huckleberry, Vaccinum parvifolium. I do eat them, but their flavor doesn’t have the tart-sweet blend of orchard-grown blueberries.
Yes… you know it’s all a matter of taste and that is unique in all of us.
I can smell it from the screen… 
I’ll try it and see!
Do it! :D
I tried it, but the clover tasted like grass. I think it might be wood sorrel you are eating, since it’s definitely sour and looks a lot like clover.
Probably. It looked like a clover so I called it a clover xD
Still pretty awesome!
Visited countries, tried berries that looked edible. I’ve been told I am lucky to be alive.
(This is a confession, not a recommendation)
I had a nice find the other day. Didn’t think I’d find wild grapes out hiking anymore after I moved back to Kansas. These are probably Vitis riparia. Large seeds, a little tart, but with a sweet finish. Apparently these get sweeter after a frost. Maybe not quite as nice as Vitis californica, but still good.
Wapato, anyone?
