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I don't usually, but after taking this pic and finding out the habits of the fly, it certainly make me wonder just what nasties are lurking on the berry...
For what it's worth i'm a firm believer in giving the immune system something to do...
Here! meet a friendly flesh fly, often known to be sat sucking on the rotting flesh of dead animals.
Enjoy ya fit picking!
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Nice pic. I don't usually bother washing it unless I'm eating a bowlful. I grew up eating apples, plums, berries, peas etc straight from the back garden.
Yeah I do. Although I've never quite understood what germs I'm trying to kill with fresh cold water 😕
As long as I know it's above dog pissing level - I wouldn't bother washing it
Nope, the family and I were Blaeberry picking in the woods last weekend and no washing done. Mind you doubt there's much wrong with a Blaeberry picked from a wild Scots Pine forest!
Are you mad? The capercaillies crap all over them 🙂
As long as I know it's above dog pissing level - I wouldn't bother washing it
My dog's very tall and she likes to nibble/lick blackberries straight from the plant 🙂
We walked the dog on Sunday before the kids had eaten breakfast so they resorted to foraging for berries in the hedges and bushes. Mind you, we also let them eat off the floor under tables too, so they're probably immune to most stuff 🙂
I am with uplink as long as its above about waist level your fine
I wonder how people survived before the invention of anti biotic hand washes. Oh yes we had this thing called an immune system now everyones spotlessly clean asthma, allergies and food intolerance is on the rise
Me and my two and three year olds were stuffing handfulls of Blae and Snow berries in our gobs last weekend. Ace!
i tried riding my bike yesterday, but didn't really make it past the first patch/nest/tangle of brambles...
i'm still picking the seeds out of my teeth.
yum!
(soon be time for chestnuts)
Blimey, I didn't think there were any blaeberries left, its been so warm and dry in Moray they were done by the end of July.
Snow berries are [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphoricarpos ]poisonous [/url].
Did you rise from the dead last week?
What on earth are 'blaeberries'?!
I never wash any fruit, wild or otherwise, but always pick above waist level.
messiah:
..my two and three year olds were stuffing handfulls of Blae and Snow berries...
donald:
Snow berries are poisonous
Wikipedia:
Ingesting the berries causes.. slight sedation in children.
Sounds ideal to me 😀
does wild fruit include dangleberries? 🙂
GrahamS - Haha, the ideal bedtime snack.
My wife soaks our berries for a day prior to making a crumble or whatever, it's surprising how many little maggoty things emerge from them.
it's surprising how many little maggoty things emerge from them.
Washing the protein out
I just eat 'em as I find them.
Nice picture Sharki, what kit are you using?
Ever worked in a winery & seen what goes in the hopper in the grapes?
What on earth are 'blaeberries'?!
blaeberries, whortleberries, whimberries - regional names for the small native blueberries found in th UK
... and no, we don't wash any of the wild fruit that we pick and eat - blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, whortleberries etc..
Samurai,
Nothing special but the macro setting seems to work well, shame about lens not working well over 30ft away, but then it's a digital camcorder so not really designed as a stills camera, it's a Sanyo Xacti.
No I don't wash them straight from the tree/bush.
But if making a crumble or a pie I do as chakaping and leave them in a large bowl, to get all the maggots and snarlies out.
The bramble bushes this year are yeilding large crops, very juicy too.