From: bobnospam@gmail.com   
      
   On 7/5/2023 4:46 AM, songbird wrote:   
   > T wrote:   
   >   
   > ...thimbleberries...   
   >   
   >> 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!   
   >   
   >    i've greatly reduced my sugar intake   
   > compared to my diet of years ago, also we   
   > do not add salt to our normal cooking so   
   > yes, i do notice when things are sweet   
   > very easily.  i also happen to have very   
   > good senses of taste and smell.  so i   
   > think you are assuming a lot about my   
   > diet that isn't particularly accurate.   
   >   
      
   I would describe tiny thimbleberries as a raspberry like flavor,   
   different but similarly intense. But there are never enough ripe to whet   
   my appetite for them. Just enough to tease.   
      
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