What's your favorite berry?

cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 44 points –

Mine are raspberries. But I wanna hear about all kinds or routine and exotic berries (like the superberries from Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia pyramid scheme)

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Who's the rainbow guy, Indigo/purple?

Edit: I wish I was berry-y enough for the Berry Club :(

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Mulberry. Australian classic. Best. Berry. In. The. World.

Shhh don't tell them! I'll have more competition while hunting!

(Btw I didn't know you guys had them too, do you have the white ones or the purple ones?)

Strawberries. Where I was a kid I looked like I had a constant rash but I was eating strawberries 24/7

Do they actually turn you red if excessively consumed (like carrots/carotene -> orange) or did you just need a good wash?

Fav berries in no particular order are raspberries, blackberries, cranberries and blueberries

Wild blueberries. I love frozen fruit in general (like a healthier version of popsicles), and wild blueberries are my favorite. They're smaller and way more flavorful than normal blueberries.

Glad that resonates with another soul, I always feel like I'm just "weird"

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Rubus chamaemorus or cloud berry. I had it when we stayed over night in the northern Swedish mountain and it's sweet, fruity, soft and creamy at the same time. Heaven in your mouth!

Is it available in NA anywhere?

Not sure what NA is, but it's difficult to get and only grows in the northern parts of our planet:

On top of it each plant only has one berry.

Like, can you buy it in North America likely? I wanna try this now.

What berry would you compare it closest to in terms of taste/experience?

Ikea sells cloudberry jam, or at least they used to a few years ago when we impulse bought it.

Ah, according to Wikipedia there are some few states where it grows:

But not sure if you can buy it there. It's normally not cultivated but just a wild plant.

Experience I'd describe like very soft blackberry but creamy and with honey taste in it.

Huckleberries

+1 for huckleberries. Especially plucked off the bush in the middle of a PNW alpine hike.

Tomatoes

Not gonna lie, maybe my second fave if we're getting technical. But cheese_greater HATES bananas. I'm bananas enough, ain't nobody got time for more of the same.

If you're going to go with botanical definitions instead of culinary, then tomatoes would jump to the top of your list: raspberries are not actually berries; they are an aggregate fruit.

I'm realize I'm straddling the line ;) Hence the bananas thing. We're being pretty relaxed in this thread, if the discussion is purely limited to botanical berries, its going to be a fairly inaccessible or banal discussion compared to what is admissible in this thread :) Lets have some fun with it, eh?

Edit: for the purposes of this threaf and in the [paraphrased/adapted] words of the US Supreme Court, its a berry if I say it is ;)

Goldenberry (gooseberry). It's like mango, passion fruit, pineapple all packed into a single berry.

Shoot am I the only one here from the Pacific Northwest USA? Our most invasive species is also the most delicious berry there is: Himalayan blackberry. Can’t be beat. Just had some blackberry jam today on a charcuterie plate

They are soooo delicious! Whenever I'm in the PacNW I try to find some to eat. Tho' it seems like the locals just treat them like a nuisance.

Blackberries and blueberries if I'm eating them straight-up. If its berry-flavor, like in a syrup or something, its boysenberry 100%

Probably blueberries, fresh blueberries in pancakes, waffles, yogurt, oatmeal, etc are so good

I don't mind blues but I always just found them kinda bland and muted. But I would eat a bunch if money was no object for the sake of variety and antioxidants :)

Fresh they’re muted yeah, cooking them seems to get the flavor to activate somehow

Its kind of an unfair comparison on my end tho cuz to me, nothing competes on the same level as raspberries. Like, they are basically perfection to me to the extent I view myself as a human version of a raspberry. A little sweet, mostly tart, fibre up the wazoo ;)

More expensive and hard to find in my experience though. The only time I see raspberries it’s a half rotten carton of 12 for twice the price of other berries

I just get good frozen. I would love to have or live near a patch and be able to pick barrels but too expensive otherwise. Also, I like to eat things in my timeframe

If you've got a garden, get some plants - they're easy to care for

Blackberries and blueberries over Greek yogurt with a drizzle of honey, yum

You ever try simply adding just a peach slice(s) for natural sweetness?

Dingle

Must be edible. Im making that a rule aha

Edit: in the alternative, what do you like about the taste so much?

Edit: also, smile while eating ;)

I'm probably the weird one here, but I love cranberries. But not in cranberry sauce or anything. I have them in parfaits or pancakes/waffles mostly. But I frequently eat a few just plain without anything on them while I'm cooking.

I'm sensitive to sugar, so anything with more sugar in it makes me ill. But cranberries are perfect and tasty. I love the intense tang of them.