I always know I'll hurt for a day or two, but it's WORTH IT! Huckleberries are AMAZING! I'll go through the pain, just like I will go through the struggle to pick the crazy-thorny (but super sweet) blackberries in my front yard. I might come out of it looking like I fought with two wildcats, but I've also got the chance to eat berries 'n' cream so... FAIR!
Huckleberries are my **favorite**! They are impossibly expensive to buy (about $40/gal in season, $60/gal off season) and are small (the big ones are like small blueberries, the small ones are like choke cherries.. only they do not grow in bunches, and have never been domesticated. You can only forage for them but they are SO good!!)
O yeah, CRAZY expensive! And that is the cost of them here, where they grow! In the south or central states, if you want a taste of huckleberries, they're TWICE that price and of course ALWAYS frozen and never fresh! Like... consider the difference between fresh raspberries.. and frozen! Not even comparable!
But they're like a tangy, SUPER FLAVORFUL blueberry... but teeny. It's everything blueberries ASPIRE to be... but aren't. I don't even really like blueberries, but I'm crazy for huckleberries!
One of the new radio shows I threaten to create is a late night show that starts like a bad Toastmasters speech with a reading of definitions from the OED (with occasional cross-referencing for clarification) that then uses the considerations raised in those definitions, as a jumping off point/theme for a cultural exploration/investigation monologue.
There is also a line in 'Moon River' about 'my huckleberry friend'... which I'm guessing is the person that is willing to go huckleberry picking with you! It's DANGEROUS to go alone! Bears LOVE huckleberries and will fight ya for them!
What do you think learning that huckleberries are a real thing? Does it help or hurt (or neither) those memories of Huckleberry Hound and Huckleberry Finn?
It explains why Huckleberry Hound was blue, and would give belief that Huckleberry Finn was a squatter or was a blue-baby when he was born..
A huckleberry friend is what you call the person who's a better shot or has the gun versus the person who's better at picking the huckleberries. And I bet that huckleberries (fresh or preserved) would pair quite well with bear meat.
And neither when it comes to helping or hurting the memories.
Ha! I like **all** those answers! And actually the indigenous people around here all eat pemmican.. which is usually venison (but also moose, bear, cougar, or really any kind of red-meat game meat) pounded with huckleberries and dried into a fruity jerky. Its FRIGGIN' DELICIOUS!
Are they called just 'brambles' when you buy/eat them... or 'brambleberries'??
Yeah, we call them blackberries... and the bushes themselves are called 'brambles'. They grow in long tall-bendy staves, and look like large raspberries, but they keep their 'core' rather than sliding off it and being 'empty' like raspberries. And they are SO THORNY!!!
When Sailor got me the OED... the first word I tried to look up was "sexy" as a thank you... but it wasn't in the dictionary yet! CAN YOU BELIEVE "sexy" is a word that was almost BRAND NEW in the early 1930s?! The first person who was EVER described as "sexy" in the English language was VALENTINO the silent movie actor! HA! So... my old dictionary has failings and can't change with the lingo over time, but it is nice to have this classic lead on language where slang had to be popularized for 20-30 YEARS before it was "allowed" in the dictionary! Now, dictionaries bring in words after 5 years of popular use! That's like... a HUGE explosion of accepted words!
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But they're like a tangy, SUPER FLAVORFUL blueberry... but teeny. It's everything blueberries ASPIRE to be... but aren't. I don't even really like blueberries, but I'm crazy for huckleberries!
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I may have a wee bit of a crush on you. You can write about the dictionary any time in friendly conversation, as far as I’m concerned!
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One of these days I'll get around to it!
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What do you think learning that huckleberries are a real thing? Does it help or hurt (or neither) those memories of Huckleberry Hound and Huckleberry Finn?
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A huckleberry friend is what you call the person who's a better shot or has the gun versus the person who's better at picking the huckleberries. And I bet that huckleberries (fresh or preserved) would pair quite well with bear meat.
And neither when it comes to helping or hurting the memories.
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Hey I think they're called brambles in England and blackberries in Australia? Little black things like raspberries on thorny bushes?
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Yeah, we call them blackberries... and the bushes themselves are called 'brambles'. They grow in long tall-bendy staves, and look like large raspberries, but they keep their 'core' rather than sliding off it and being 'empty' like raspberries. And they are SO THORNY!!!
When Sailor got me the OED... the first word I tried to look up was "sexy" as a thank you...
but it wasn't in the dictionary yet! CAN YOU BELIEVE "sexy" is a word that was almost BRAND NEW in the early 1930s?!
The first person who was EVER described as "sexy" in the English language was VALENTINO the silent movie actor! HA! So... my old dictionary has failings and can't change with the lingo over time, but it is nice to have this classic lead on language where slang had to be popularized for 20-30 YEARS before it was "allowed" in the dictionary! Now, dictionaries bring in words after 5 years of popular use! That's like... a HUGE explosion of accepted words!
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