From: T@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 7/4/23 03:56, songbird wrote:   
   > T wrote:   
   > ...thimbleberries...   
   >> You would need jewels glasses to see them!   
   >> I think I will break down and spend the   
   >> $30 and buy a plant.   
   >   
   >    your conditions are likely completely   
   > inhospitable for them - i'd not waste the $.   
   >   
   >    i used to live in the Upper Peninsula of   
   > Michigan where they grew in the wild.  they   
   > did not grow in an arid hot climate - i would   
   > find them growing in the woods and along the   
   > edges where it was usually partly shaded and   
   > cool and moist almost constantly.   
   >   
   >    where you are at i think they'd fry.   
      
   Not to mention the 7% humidity.  They   
   probably would not have a chance to call   
   me any names before they withered.   
      
   >    on top of that they have a very unusual   
   > flavor - i found it rather cloyingly sweet and   
   > just barely edible but i'd rather grow   
   > raspberries if given the choice (and i liked   
   > the golden raspberry variety the best - but   
   > that is my own personal preference :).   
   >   
   >   
   >    songbird   
      
      
   You just talked me out of it.  Especially   
   the "cloying" part, meaning too high   
   carbs for me.  Most wild plants are   
   not too high in carbs because they have   
   not been hybridized.   
      
   Since you eat mostly whole food with some   
   SAD (Standard American Diet) thrown in, you   
   probably can not taste sweet things down   
   as low as I can.  I am on the Historically   
   Appropriate Human Diet (A.K.A. Keto), which   
   make me able to enjoy things like choke   
   berries, where folks on SAD would instantly   
   spit them out.  So if you think thimbleberries   
   are "cloying", I would absolute gag on them!   
      
   And being wild, most of that sugar would be   
   coming from inulin, meaning farts.  (Small   
   amounts are fine.  But "cloying" means ....)   
      
   I am really, really interested in those   
   wild black raspberries you mentioned in   
   another letter!   
      
   Thank you!   
   -T   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)