...Mo made from scratch(and i dare anyone to deny that this was made by me ).. taste even better than it lQQKs....all Cointalk Peeps are welcome fer ah helpin'
..your address?!..no, ya gotta come to Frostbite hollow where the pie is and get ya some ..and maybe bring some store bought ice cream..my tub is leakin...
I see the four lines on it and I think about my Vandal 4-nummi coin from Carthage. Under Thrasamund, Hilderic, or Gelimer AE 4 Nummi Obv: Personification of Carthage(?) diademed, draped, bust left, holding palm branch Rev: Bar over N over IIII Mint: Carthage Date: 498-534 AD Ref: BMC Vandals 12
I grew up in Indiana where my grandfather owned land with huge wild black raspberry entanglements. The best berries were always a few inches past easy reach and the thorns made you pay for pushing too far. Long sleeves limited the reach into tight places so we wore short sleeves and suffered. When the Army moved me to Virginia I discovered that people there ate blackberries which, as far as I was concerned, were good because they were thornless but also relatively flavorless. I would rather shed a little blood and eat the good stuff. Where I live now does not allow growing black raspberries (they like a colder winter) so it is pretty much a memory from the past. I never liked red raspberries either. I encourage those who have the opportunity to try the real thing when visiting places that grow them to do so.
WOW, @ominus1 ! Greg, that PIE is jest YUMMY looking! Holy cow, will be there shortly! Ditto on Indiana and Blackberries there. Grew up farming, perhaps 30 mi from you. Lotsa sheep and cattle. I DID find that when I moved to the Portland, OR area, berries of ALL types were incredible there! Sheep RR L Rustius 76 BCE AR Den 19mm 3.6g Mars SC Rome - Ram L RVSTI Cr 389-1 Sear 320 Cattle Kolchis 5th-4th C BCE BI hemidrachm 11.5mm 1.8g Archaic female head possibly Georgian goddess Dali - Bull head border SNG Cop 98
I'll take a slice of that Antoninus "Pie"us! Antoninus Pius (138-161 AD). AR Denarius (18 mm, 3.39 g), Roma (Rome), 153-154 AD. Obv. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XVII, laureate head right. Rev. COS IIII, Vesta standing holding simpulum and Palladium. RIC III, 229b. Nicely toned
...it's a well kept secret....they were here at my place when i moved 20 years ago and i'd never heard of eating them till last year...wish i'd known sooner
I've never heard of black raspberries being available in my neck of the woods but I do so like a good feed of boysenberries and boysenberry ice cream. Bring on summer!
Yep, I did a double-take, too. "What's this black edition business?" I remember trying to run through a list of all the "berries" I knew of that were good to eat. Blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries -- but I didn't know what black raspberries were, nor boysenberries, nor huckleberries. And then there were mulberries. I didn't have any associations with those, although my parents lived on Mulberry Street when they were first married (To Think That It Happened!). But then my kids went to a school that had mulberry trees growing next to the playground, and my brother and his wife moved to a house with a huge mulberry tree growing in the back yard. Now I have a fine appreciation for those berries, too.
What I found out quickly was that blackberries were much seedier than black raspberries. After I bought 100 acres of mixed rangeland and woodland in south central Oklahoma I quickly discovered many acres of blackberries. Me and my ex picked several five gallon buckets of blackberries which made fine jelly. However, they were too seedy for anything else.
