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  • From: mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] edibility
  • Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 08:36:02 -0600

While we were visiting the botanical gardens in Cluj, Romania, we discovered that they had a variety of rosa rugosa growing everywhere, The fruit were smaller than what I grow here, but a bit sweeter & more flavorful. My son was picking & eating them when someone came up to him & told him in broken english that they were very bad for him & they were quite poisonous. He said he knew this because he had learned it from his grandmother. So much for the old ways.


On Thursday, December 2, 2004, at 11:38 PM, Bob Sorenson wrote:


In my business I pick wild berries every year and often I get stopped and
hassled by well meaning but not well educated people who are too willing to
think that I don't know what I am doing. They will insist that I am going to
poison myself and after a couple of years of trying to be nice to these
types of folks I hit upon a great plan: Now I simply tell them that I have
been hired by the local govt. authority to scour the urban/wildlands
interface to pick all of the dangerous berries and dispose of them in order
to protect children, dogs and desperate poor people.
This is suprisingly satisfying to myself and the duped and it means more
elderberries for me!

bob sorenson





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