Also known as European blueberries, tastier and with a better nutritional profile than American blueberries.
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for me it's European cranberries
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>>21733595>>21733604aislop
>>21733596This is about bilberries vs blueberries, not Europe vs North America. Don't take it personal.
>>21733595bilberries refuse to be cultivatedthat's how you got the inferior berry
>>21733604I wonder what it’s like to straight up eat a cranberry
>>21734710I've been buying and using fresh cranberries and tried that. They're tart. It's nothing like most other berries, it's more like eating a lemon. It's good chopped up and added to other things that way sometimes for some acidity but otherwise there's a good reason most people are just using it for cranberry sauce.
>>21734720>It's nothing like most other berries, it's more like eating a lemon.Also they're not juicy either, they're like kind of dry with an air pocket inside. So imagine a lemon if it wasn't juicy.
>>21734723Europe wins again
>>21734710Tart, but very ripe ones can be kinda good despite the tartness.My 22 month old toddler loves to eat fresh cranberries, she would eat them until she was sick if I let her.
>>21734710>>21734720If you want to eat a berry that tastes like cranberry but is sweeter, Red Huckleberry(Vaccinium parvifolium) is pretty close, but they don't grow in most of the world and I don't think they are commonly cultivated.
>>21733596fpbp
>>21734720>>21734723Dried cranberries are pretty good.
>>21735016they're usually sweetened
>>21735016Aside from cost, dried cherries are superior in every way
>>21733595USA bros... we lost...
>>21733596>rent freerent free
bilberries are greati put it on brunost or uncooked oatmeal
>>21734710bro just eat one. they have a nice texture which reminds me, try fresh dates if you ever see them at an azn market
>>21733595>Bilberriesup until i was 19, I didn't even knew american blueberries existthen I got a pastry with them and it was fucking disgustingit's so easy foraging bilberries here1 Saturday in the black forest during season and I've got like 5-10kgI usually go 2-3x and freeze them for a years worth of supply
>>21735513>1 Saturday in the black forest during season and I've got like 5-10kgwhere? I live in the region (around Freudenstadt)never noticed any
>>21735524>where? I live in the region (around Freudenstadt)i'm not gonna tell you my exact spotsbut I always forage between Karlsruhe and Freudenstadt (so Nordschwarzwald)>never noticed anyyou must be kidding, right!?do you know how they look?because there are blueberry shrubs literally everywhere in the black foresteven alongside popular hiking pathslarger areas, where you can actually pick for a few hours, are a bit more rarejust try to follow forest ranger paths alongside the mountain slopes, usually like ~2/3 up the hills (so neither in the valleys nor on "top")the further away from parking, popular paths and bigger roads the betteralso you need a "Blaubeerkamm" (berry picking rake?)otherwise it's gonna take foreverbut please don't buy a shitty one onlinethey destroy the shrubs!
>>21734710I like them; they are tart but not astringent.>>21734771My toddler doesn't like them, but always bites one in half when I eat them in front of her; I think she likes their appearance. She will chew a whole coffee bean, so I'm not sure why she draws the line at cranberries.>>21733595I think I used to find them growing wild in Down East Maine; there were definitely some edible not-blueberries in the area.
>>21733596>>21734869>went fweeeeeThe tears are tangible. Cuckolds.
>>21735326>>rent free>rent freerent free
>>21733595Obligatory
>>21735650Aye.
>>21735513ditto this, for me it was when i was around 26for whatever reason, fresh american blueberries in our stores are called the same thing as regular blueberries - fortunately they aren't being put in jam
>>21733630If that were true, you'd just mention the berry names. Stop being a cowardly attention seeker.
>>21735650-"i like oranges better than apples"-"american apple pie lives in your third worlder head rent free"
>>21735796in my language, both berries have the same namein english, bilberry is also known as "european blueberry"they're both blueberries, so adding "american" helps as a specifier
>>21735799What a terrible comparative aphorism
>>21735805which language?at least in finnish the american blueberries are called pensasmustikkathey are absolute garbage tier berry and it annoys me that we translate mustikka to blueberry
>>21735618kek you sure showed us!
Am I the only one who likes the tiny little blueberries you get in some muffins/pancakes more than normal sized ones?
>>21736178norwegistaniani agree, i dont understand the kind of people that buy them
>>21735799But european apple cakes are superior.
>>21736186Those typically aren't blueberries. Its usually sugar syrup and wheat flour with artificial dye.
>>21733595Bilberries are a cunt to pick. I spent 2 hours picking with my family. It was enough to make a merge crumble, which was very tart.
>>21733595Wrong
>>21737553source?
>>21737576I had a dream telling me.
>>21737576Me
So v. myrtillus is bilberry? Always thought it was blueberry in english
have you guys heard of the jungle berry? hint of blueberry flavor, really seedy, you squeeze the guts out to eat. it's a S.E.A. fruit. i used to go up to the jungle to eat them
>>21733595Speaking of berries, I dislike store bought blackberries, they're always underripe so they're sour or flavorless. If I'm not picking blackberries myself I don't want them.
>>21739086It's an issue with berries in general. They're delicate and don't have a long shelf life so they're usually picked underripe. Frozen can be better but the texture is mushy if you thaw them.
