Non-electronic fruit

I almost titled this “blackberry review” until I realized I was going to have google thinking I was talking pda.

And after laughing way too hard after I was scrolling to get to a past draft and happened to glansing-ly notice someone found my blog by searching for “big bear issues” and got my post about a too big teddy bear… i wouldn’t want some person wanting a new toy to be overly bored by my fruit discussion like that person that I REALLY hope was not having an issue with a big bear at the time of the search. (it was memorial day weekend… a big camping weekend…)

 

Anyway… lol

I randomly picked up some unexpected blackberries at the store the other day… because they were on sale and next to the peaches I wanted to put into some of the homemade yogurt from the other day…. which made me think they would make nice yogurt as well.

It was about the time I got in the car that I really started thinking about it…. and wondering if I’ve ever actually even had blackberries before… outside of like mixed berry or fruit salad mix type things.

 

So I got home, and while unloading the groceries I tossed about 4 at once into my mouth. 

And was not thrilled. I pretty much wrote it off as not liking them.

But tonight I decided to mix them into yogurt with some raspberries… and so I smashed the juice out of about 10 between mason jar lids above a yogurt jar then scraped the smashed part in too.

I already had stevia in it, so I decided to try it before the other berries went in… and discovered I actually liked it.

So I left that one as it was.

 

But then I tried the berries again… one at a time this time. And I figured out… what I don’t like is the middle crunchy part. Raspberries usually have that gone and are all soft.

But just smashing the berry in my mouth instead of biting down on that crunchy part, I actually really liked the flavor of the berry.

 

Gotta remember to try to figure out exactly what I don’t like in new things…. maybe sometimes it can be worked around. 

But I still don’t like kiwi. Or mangos unless mixed with other stuff like a smoothie.

Should probably start a list… fruit ratings.

Blackberries get an 8… losing 2 for texture. Mangos get a 3. Kiwi a 2.

 

 

(and bananas with nutella spread on the side gets a 10… but we aren’t even gonna ask if that’s healthy after the other day. it does have hazelnut and less calories than the peanut butter. but, um… sugar is number 1 ingredient… and its basically molten chocolate.)