Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Big fat juicy gooseberries
When I was a kid my ma used to buy big fat juicy gooseberries from the greengrocer's. You'd bite the end off and suck out the sweet insides. Yummy! I don't see them any more. Does anyone know where I can get any?
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Permalink Reply by Alison P on
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I heard this too (on the Radio 4 programme Maddy mentions), and thought of this discussion. They actually said that M&S was selling some gooseberries - sounded like the reddish sweet ones - but (bizarrely) weren't calling them gooseberries. I can't remember the name being used - anyone else? Go figure?!
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Sainsbury's have Kent " cooking " gooseberries at £1.99 for 400g.
Hard, green, sour and pretty tasteless but probably ok in a crumble or tart with lots of sugar.
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Permalink Reply by Lesley Ramm on
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at http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/poll/2010/jul/27/food-and-d... in response to question about berries someone posted this
Having listened to a prog about this on R4 on the way home yesterday, I think the saddest thing is that our own blackcurrants, redcurrants and gooseberries are not more freely available. Apparently Marks and Sparks have started selling a particular sweet breed of gooseberry under the name "faeberry" - ffs - but I can't remember the last time I saw gooseberries in the shops.
why wouldn't M+S call them Gooseberries?
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Permalink Reply by Susan Penny on
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They're very easy to grow if you have space. Just plant and water and leave them. Obviously Picking has to be when they are ready ie. well timed
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Have just been given a jar of homemade Gooseberry jam - how lucky am i? I had been giving my friend's mum clean, empty jam jars for weeks in the hopes of a jar of raspberry jam. Tonight i got the raspberry and gooseberry. need a nice crusty white loaf to try both. or could i make a Gooseberry tart with it? Looks gruesome-a sludgy, murky brownish colour. hopefully tastes better than it looks!
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Morrisons Wood Green selling Gooseberry lattice tarts (2 individual) for £1. just had one, warmed with evaporated milk. Mmm.
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