blueberries

Those things they sell as blueberries in the stores really aren't blueberries.

Birds, bears, and other woodland creatures also love blueberries so you have to beat them to the bushes.

Maybe all high bush varieties are mild and flavorless, but Maine wild blueberries are really rich and flavorful.

Relatively wild species like blackberries, raspberries, blueberries and their relatively low sugar content actually illustrate that point.

> Those things they sell as blueberries in the stores really aren't blueberries.

We had a rural property and grew several acres of low bush blueberries only a few inches tall but quite lush.

You could eat them, but they were sparse, the size of medium-sized blueberries, and tasted similarly to a green modern strawberry.

Note that blueberries don't exist wildly in Europe, only bilberries which are often confused.

As someone allergic to cranberries (sensitive to blueberries and wintergreen too), it baffles me a little bit how popular they are now.

Do that for a few years and you had a field of blueberries.

And blueberries, giant American hybrids or otherwise, are indeed quite tasteless in comparison.

If you wanted blueberries, you burned the land in the early spring.

From the berries we would make pies, jams, cakes, muffins, and our personal favorite: "blueberry pizza," made from unsweetened pizza dough onto which blueberries were spread with a bit of butter and a light dusting of cinnamon and sugar.

Here's my "startup" diet: Breakfast: Steel cut oats - $.89/lb at Whole Foods in the bulk bins Dried fruit (raisins, cranberries, blueberries, pineapple, papaya, etc.) - somewhere between $1.50/lb and $8/lb, either in bulk or pre-packaged in the bulk section at Whole Foods Walnuts or pecans - $6-$8/lb from the bulk bin at Whole Foods or Nob Hill Brown sugar and butter - small enough quantity that it barely counts.

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Blueberries on the other hand are more difficult: they require bright (but not necessarily direct) light, ample rainfall, acidic soil (pH 4-5), and limited competition.