blackcurrant

British food area of your local grocery store may have Ribena, which is a blackcurrant cordial.

There are even blackcurrant plants available that are resistant to the white pine blister rust.

I stopped into a pub in Dublin, Ireland once and everyone was drinking a pint of Guinness w/ blackcurrant.

I traveled to the UK, bought some Skittles, and almost spit them out (blackcurrant instead of grape).

Larger liquor stores will often have (usually imported) cassis (blackcurrant liqueur) as well.

Different non-fortified, non-dessert still red wines using different grapes taste about as different as raspberry, cherry, blackcurrant (cassis) and blackberry juices taste from each other.

In the US, there are few domestic products that incorporate blackcurrant, but just about any European-import grocery will likely be stocked with a wide variety.

My father in-law is a Blackcurrant farmer in Canada.

I first tasted blackcurrant by drinking one in London about ten years ago.

I grew up (in US) thinking blackcurrant was a variety of black tea.

I'm pretty sure nobody in the historical record mentioned how their armies have never once used blackcurrant jam to destroy a rampaging army from Venus.

> blackcurrant cordial would be used for snakebites Of the actual snake variety, or are you meaning some kind of drink?

I usually just blurt out "cassis", a blackcurrant soda.

"Cider and black" or "snakebite and black" (lager, cider, "black") are popular drink with teenagers and students in Britain, but the black is blackcurrant syrup.

> taste about as different as raspberry, cherry, blackcurrant (cassis) and blackberry juices I can trivially tell these apart, and I did not have to "study" any of that.

"Fruits rouges" in French (the test was done in France, so most probably in French) has a rather specific meaning, it refers to a mix of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blackcurrant and redcurrant, basically.

Blackcurrant (Cassis) and redcurrant (Groseille) taste quite different, they are nice sprinkled atop fraisier cake for example.

Blackcurrant leaves are widely used in the pickling liquid for pickles where I live.

Blackcurrant bans feel too heavy-handed to me.