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["Bruce Hansen" <brucedhansen@sbcglobal.net>]

Remember the 'old ways' created the Constitution!

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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of mIEKAL aND
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 9:36 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] edibility


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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