Blackberrys

[SoloBoy]

Just wondering guys,I would love to go and pick our local blackberrys from the canal near to us.But am worried about the maggotts inside them.I remember soaking them in some water as A kid but,cant remember whether it was salt or suger which made them seperate from the fruit.Is that completely wrong or is there any better solution.Any help would be ace.

 

[BorderReiver]

Just wondering guys,I would love to go and pick our local blackberrys from the canal near to us.But am worried about the maggotts inside them.I remember soaking them in some water as A kid but,cant remember whether it was salt or suger which made them seperate from the fruit.Is that completely wrong or is there any better solution.Any help would be ace.

Just give em a good rinse in a collander.A few maggots wont poison you.

 

[Toddy]

Just wondering guys,I would love to go and pick our local blackberrys from the canal near to us.But am worried about the maggotts inside them.I remember soaking them in some water as A kid but,cant remember whether it was salt or suger which made them seperate from the fruit.Is that completely wrong or is there any better solution.Any help would be ace.

Look as you pick; if the core is brown and mushy... it's maggoted.
Cheers,
Toddy

 

[bloodline]

If it moves when ya chew youve got meat with ya fruit

 

[Spacemonkey]

I just eat them off the bush. Maggots are crawling full of goodness. Yum!

 

[tomtom]

spacemonkey is spot on.. maggots are full of protine

they taste good too

 

[leon-b]

out of all the blackberrys i have ate i have never come across a maggot in one

 

[pibbleb]

Last summer I was a key holder for our local church responsible for locking it up every evening.

As the blackberries came out me and the kids would spend an age each night chewing our way through the grave yard as has already been suggested look at what you're eating but don't worry about the protine.

Imagine where the fertilizer for the ones we were eating had come from.

Lovely fruit though!

Pib

 

[dommyracer]

The only blackberries I get to see outside of a supermarket these days look like this:-

 

[pibbleb]

We have those at work, my advise drop it in the nearest bin!

Pib