The US War on Currants and Gooseberries
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Marvin Pitts, a professor of horticulture at Cornell University, estimates that 99.9% of Americans have never tasted a blackcurrant. The reason? For nearly...

I remember my Grandmother having Gooseberry in her garden and joking that they would get her in more trouble than the still she ran on her property.

  • @[email protected]
    20•1 year ago

    I grew up in the USA and my parents had to go to Canada to get Ribena (Black Currant syurp) for me as a baby because that was the only thing I drank

    • Entropywins
      8•1 year ago

      Breast milk probably woulda been better but hey your still here and thats what counts…

    • @[email protected]
      1•1 year ago

      Weird, my parents were able to buy Black Currant syrup in the U.S. Just not the actual fruit lol.

      I love putting the syrup in a bottle of mineral water.