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| TheCroutonFuton |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 17:12:39
I love blackberries and raspberries...yummy! Strawberries are good, too. I think all berries are good in their own way. Mmmmm...
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| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 06/04/2004 : 07:28:22
quote:
Originally posted by VoVat
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Canadian officials say saskatoons are similar to blueberries, and their usage as a food dates back centuries to aboriginal peoples, who mixed saskatoons with dried buffalo meat to make pemmican.
But Britain's Food Standards Agency has argued that the saskatoon is not a real berry like the blueberry, but is from the apple family.
I don't get it. Being from the apple family makes them bad?
Cattle in Korea / They can really moo.
Stockpile Macintoshes and granny smiths before it's too late!
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| BLT |
Posted - 06/03/2004 : 22:56:16
R.I.P. Rerun |
| slaveish |
Posted - 06/03/2004 : 22:48:03
Cherries are drupes and cucumbers, tomatoes, and citrus fruits are berries. HAAAAA!!!!!!!! |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 06/03/2004 : 17:07:09
They're more angry than mad exactly.
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| Carolynanna |
Posted - 06/03/2004 : 17:04:54
Ya, its not like there's mad berry disease!
That's not counting strawberries ;) |
| VoVat |
Posted - 06/03/2004 : 16:03:41
quote:
Canadian officials say saskatoons are similar to blueberries, and their usage as a food dates back centuries to aboriginal peoples, who mixed saskatoons with dried buffalo meat to make pemmican.
But Britain's Food Standards Agency has argued that the saskatoon is not a real berry like the blueberry, but is from the apple family.
I don't get it. Being from the apple family makes them bad?
Cattle in Korea / They can really moo. |
| Malax |
Posted - 06/03/2004 : 15:25:31
Nick Berry
Had talent in a previous life
I May've Joined The Cult Of Frank If I Knew What The Balls Was Going On.
*Adapted By Carolynanna* |
| shineoftheever |
Posted - 06/03/2004 : 13:47:54
i'll take gene rodden'berry'
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| BLT |
Posted - 06/03/2004 : 13:39:18
I've changed my mind. I'm now choosing the late, great, Fred "Rerun" Berry. |
| Carolynanna |
Posted - 06/03/2004 : 13:21:37
Ahaha Dean!
I knew you couldn't resist.
That was not to satisfy me. ;) |
| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 06/03/2004 : 13:00:34
Apparently, Europeans may never get to experience the Saskatoon Berry:
http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/news/story.html?id=98e1690e-5db4-473f-900a-69264e990239
EU Banishes Saskatoons
Canadian Press
June 3, 2004
WINNIPEG (CP) -- A British ruling against Prairie-grown saskatoon berries is expected to trigger the removal of all saskatoon products from European Community store shelves.
The decision by Britain's Food Standards Agency, leaked last Friday, contends there is not enough evidence that saskatoons are safe. A written decision is expected June 9.
Canadian officials are scrambling to reverse the decision before it is released, said Markus Schmilgen, a member of the Canadian delegation that travelled to London last month to argue that saskatoon berries are safe to eat.
"Once the decision is on paper, it's very difficult to reverse," said Schmilgen, a manager with Manitoba's Food Development Centre in Portage la Prairie.
"We're in complete disbelief," he said Wednesday. "We don't know why this happened. We have no scientific reason."
Schmilgen said that if interventions by Canada's High Commissioner in England and the Canadian representative for the European Union fail, saskatoons could be yanked off store shelves in Europe next week.
The purple berries, which grow wild on shrubs across the prairies, are popular ingredients in pies and jams in Canada and are marketed as a topping for pancakes and ice cream.
The threatened prohibition on saskatoon product sales in Europe has rocked a Petersfield, Man., farm couple, who have invested $250,000 to introduce saskatoon berries to the world market.
"It's so ridiculous. There's something awfully wrong here," said John Ritz, whose company Prairie Lane Saskatoons is currently selling saskatoon products in 10 European countries.
Ritz said he has been told that if the products are pulled, it could take two to five years to get them back into Europe.
The Manitoba government expressed dismay at the development.
"I'm disappointed that saskatoons got caught in a European Union regulation issue," said Rosann Wowchuk, Manitoba's agriculture minister and deputy premier.
"We will have to make a decision as to how we proceed from here."
Schmilgen said saskatoons have been caught up in a regulation designed to catch genetically modified organisms.
Although saskatoons aren't genetically modified, they may have to be reviewed under the act which applies to food products "not substantially consumed" in the United Kingdom prior to 1997, said Schmilgen.
"Saskatoon berries got caught in a web that was never intended to catch anything like saskatoon berries," he said.
Canadian officials say saskatoons are similar to blueberries, and their usage as a food dates back centuries to aboriginal peoples, who mixed saskatoons with dried buffalo meat to make pemmican.
But Britain's Food Standards Agency has argued that the saskatoon is not a real berry like the blueberry, but is from the apple family.
Canada's foremost food scientist, Joe Mazza, said he hasn't given up the fight.
"I don't accept defeat easily," said Mazza, who led the Canadian contingent in Britain last month. "We're going to continue to fight. We lost the battle -- not the war."
Britain has shown a keen appetite for saskatoon berries since they were introduced about a year ago, consuming them in everything from ice-cream and baked goods to yogurt.
Prairie Lane has also begun selling dried, sweetened saskatoon berry infusions for foods like muffins and cheeses.
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| benji |
Posted - 05/27/2004 : 02:57:45
Richard, that reminds me....the Greenwich Union Pub in Greenwich, London makes a fabulous Raspberry Beer
It is truly beautiful.....
But goosebery beer - that would be awful.
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| bedrock_barney |
Posted - 05/27/2004 : 02:53:35
Hey Isaac, you're getting your beery mixed up with your berry again. Wishful thinking it's called.
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| benji |
Posted - 05/27/2004 : 02:44:42
don't really have a favourite beery, cause i prefer them in jams....
but i HATE Gooseberry's...
and the bushes are so prickly.....
the number of scratches i got from this one bush in particular attempting fetch my cricket ball...grr.
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| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 16:47:35
Tackleberry!
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| VoVat |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 16:38:34
Personally, I like schnozberries.
Blueberries are pretty good too, though.
Cattle in Korea / They can really moo. |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 14:04:43
What!?!?!? Like your parents and grandparents!?!?!?
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| Adam |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 13:54:47
Elders! |
| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 13:29:25
Well, I LOVE Saskatoon berries:
That was just to satisfy Carolyn, though.
Actually, they are pretty good. Brie cheese warmed and served in a saskatoon berry sauce is pretty delectable. Or the pie. Or the jam. Or the syrup. Or the berry. :)
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 12:41:35
Blackberries for me too. I love fruits of the forest, I love them, I love them, I love them!!!
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| bedrock_barney |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 03:11:31
Blackcurrants for me.
..errrr..is that a berry?
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| vilainde |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 02:51:44
Oh berry me
Far away please
Berry me
Denis
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| TarTar |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 02:30:43
6 feet deep, please. No shallow graves for me.
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| ramona |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 18:56:52
I was going to say Halle Berry. She was on Oprah today.
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| rockmusic84 |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 18:54:07
This one isn't too bad. They don't make this OR Boo Berry much anymore, though. Damn you, Count Chocula!!! Damn you to hell!!!
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| Carolynanna |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 18:52:39
Where's Dean & Mike.
I thought they would be touting Saskatoon berries.
They are yummy though.
(The berries not you 2 ;) |
| BLT |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 18:38:17
Harvested: straw
Wild: huckle |
| fudd |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 18:10:50
I grew up in Seattle where blackberries grow everywhere. In the Fall you can pick as many as you like. It was a shock to find them for $3.99/lb when I moved to the East Coast. I still can't bring myself to pay for them. But I am dying for a blackberry pie. |
| The King Of Karaoke |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 18:01:06
Dingle
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| therewererumours |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 17:30:21
Mee...oh, yeah,.... sorry,... berrys. Are cherries considered berries? My fav.
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| TheCroutonFuton |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 17:17:58
Or Barry White?
"Freedom is a state of mind and the condition and position of your ass. Free your mind and your ass will follow." - Funkadelic |
| shineoftheever |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 17:16:56
How long until someone posts pictures of Chuck Berry or Halle Berry(YUM!)?
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