If you don't let your kid eat blackberries...

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Before they have been washed what do you think will happen? Or what has happened?

Just curious as I've always let my kids eat them as soon as they've picked them and I'm not sure what harm would come to them.

I wonder how much fruit is out of bounds for vegans/vegetarians. Either you're eating the worms and killing them or your rinsing/soaking and killing the worms that way.

Yep to kids freely picking and eating blackberries from waist height off the main roads, kids have done this for decades.

What on earth did you make?

fruit leathers and fruit g u m m i e s ( I,m thinking it might be mention of that)
Sorry it couldn't be more exciting

reesewithoutaspoon

Spoilsport. I was hoping for something outrageous.

My gran and mother always soaked blackberries before using them. I agree with a PP that once you see all the larvae floating on top of the water it's really difficult to just pop a blackberry straight from the bush into your mouth.

I guess if you're not squeamish about eating bugs then just crack on with the higher up fruit, but as someone who barely eats meat I'm definitely in the 'no bug eating' camp of fruit consumption.

Omg who knew blackberries were so subversive

Oooh you’re right@reesewithoutaspoon ! I just posted that I’d googled That Word to see what was wrong with it and my post is hidden too.

It just returns results on sweets

Maybe MN get lots of spam “health” advertising

I picked some wild blackberries and washed them at the weekend and nothing came out of them, they were obviously defective.

You have to soak them a rinse, won't work. When you soak it forces the worms out of the berries because they are drowning. I m not getting many at the moment as the ones near me have only just come ripe, so the flies haven't had much of a chance to lay, but as the season goes along it increases

Is it me, or are they early this year?

Except, see other posts, dogs don't actually pee on spiky blackberry bushes.

animal piss, dirt, bugs, you have no idea what's in any of them. This is an example of something that you might think is unexpected.
like others have said, you need to fill the sink and let them submerge in the water.

https://news.sky.com/story/australian-man-sam-ballard-who-was-left-paralysed-after-eating-a-slug-dies-aged-28-11545373

Except, see other posts, dogs don't actually pee on spiky blackberry bushes.

See my posts - they do.

DD 12 and her friend came in with stained mouths yesterday after eating a mass of blackberries. They always look fine inside?

Do you have to wash supermarket ones too? Raspberries? Do I want to or is ignorance bliss?

I once used half a pack of dehydrated mushrooms for a meal. When I soaked the other half, and diced them they were full of rehydrated maggots!

DD 12 and her friend came in with stained mouths yesterday after eating a mass of blackberries

Are you living in an Enid Blyton book?!

Goodness knows what my youngest ate as she was berry mad and ate them from our garden where the (male) dog roamed and foxes, badgers etc frequented. She's a healthy adult now so didn't harm her.

I eat them straight from the bush too

DaemonMoon · Today 17:49
DD 12 and her friend came in with stained mouths yesterday after eating a mass of blackberries. They always look fine inside?
They were probably brambles if they picked them outside, so maybe let ignorance be bliss!

Do you have to wash supermarket ones too? Raspberries? Do I want to or is ignorance bliss?
You are unlikely to have brambles from a supermarket - they are more likely to be commercially grown blackberries, which you can wash or not - they won't need soaking ditto raspberries.

I once used half a pack of dehydrated mushrooms for a meal. When I soaked the other half, and diced them they were full of rehydrated maggots!

what would happen if your kid ate a blackberry that had been weed on by a dog?

If you eat something covered in dog piss then obviously, the risk is that you could become unwell. You might not, but why risk it?

@SlashBeef

At least I'm not alone, ditto salad

I seem to avoid sickness bugs when others get them too. The proof will be in a few months when I'm visiting India - apparently everyone gets a dodgy belly, we'll see !

I was always taught you shouldn’t eat those from the roadside even washed because they’ve been exposed to the pollutants while growing

You don't know anything about the dog or fox that's weed on it, and they could be ill, on top of all the other rubbish that's in urine, as it is a waste product.

I've seen my own dog pee on lower down parts of blackberry bushes so yes, I'd imagine others do.

I don't imagine eating a small spider would harm anyone, but do you want to?

A couple of years ago I was picking black berries from a hedge on my way back from a dog walk and putting them in a clean poo bag 😂 a group of young teenagers rode up on their bikes and asked me what I was doing and were absolutely aghast when I told them I was going to make a crumble and offered them to try one, they refused, even though I was happily eating them myself. I suggested they take some home to their mum and offered a bag and they said their mum wouldn’t like it.

The whole exchange made me a bit sad.

Or having a normal childhood…