to wonder why there are blackberries going bad whilst people complain that they don't have enough money to feed their family healthy food.

[froken]

We went blackberry picking today, I was expecting a couple of manky blackberries to be left because I hear so often in the media and on mumsnet people saying how they struggle to feed their dc healthy food and sometimes people saying they have a hard time finding enough money to feed their dc at all.

There was a huge amount of blackberries, we were a 20 min walk outside a major city so an easily accessible place for 1000s of families.

We picked 9 pounds of blackberries.

Aibu to think that it would be a good idea for those struggling to feed their family a healthy diet (and those struggling to feed their family at all) should be out picking the free fruit that grows all over England's public spaces?

BlackBerry picking is kind of middle class I rekon. I love it but op. Yabu.

I just use preserving sugar.

No buggering about with pectin

Yanbu. I have wondered the same thing. My boys & I have enjoyed picking berries over the summer together how sad the British have list their culture. The difference between middle class & working class is not wealth but culture. Bb picking is a middle class thing - money or not.

Be careful with the rose hips, boys and girls. Itching powder is made from rose hips, and you will understand that very deeply if you get any of the rose hip interior down the back of your shirt.

Some poor people aren't resourceful. Get over it.

DEVILS PINCH

Please remember that the poor cannot pick blackberries after the 29th of September because of this. Well know country fact

I know this because my mother told me. Didn't stop me scoffing them on the walk back from school but then I love heavy metal and not fazed by devil references at all.

PMSL at blackberry picking being middle class and part of british culture I don't think i could come from a more working class background and we picked blackberries on the "old railway line" every year.

Thanks LEM - it was (kinda) worth it...

You can make soup from weeds?

I'm sorted. I am one of the weed elite.

What is this devils pinch of which you speak?

I remember putting rosehips down my dads shirt once - he was really cross it was his own fault, he had just told me how to do it

basil in my family you're expected to just scoop off the layer of mold from the top. apparently we are all very picky and silly about our food nowadays

pixel i wish you were close to me so you could have my apples. huge, beautiful bramleys going to waste because neither ds or i like cooked fruit or 'puddings' and because the wasps are getting at them faster than i can get round to collecting them up between work and school and animals and blah.

hate waste but just not a fruit fan.

however my rhubarb is shite this year - is this just me or some kind of weather issue?

TheBigJessie did you used to do that at school to the teachers your mates too?

We spent many a happy time making rosehip itching powder,mud pies and rose petal perfume.

Oh yes, it's an irritant.

lol at MC blackberries.

It really annoys me how The Poor complain about having to go out and purchase itching powder, with money provided by other people, when there are perfectly good rosehips available for free. Really fucks me off. Grr

Bloody hell! I've stumbled on the answer haven't I?

Bloody mud pies.

It's obvious!

Now you can't tell me the Poor can't even rustle up a mud pie?

You don't want them WC blackberries in your jam do ya?

"now you cant tell me the poor cant even rustle up a mud pie"

Of course they can't! all the middle class fuckers have snaffled it for their face packs! The bastards

mud is very high in iron.

i think it's knowledge poverty tbh. we need JO to impart his wisdom on how to rustle up a good, hearty mud pie for £1.34 per portion.

The difference between middle class & working class is not wealth but culture. Bb picking is a middle class thing - money or not

yeah ok.

We used to eat them as kids hiding in our den.
We were probably riddled with all sorts of parasites.

so which leaves should you forage to wipe your arse for the after effects of all those blackberries?

LEM organic mud for the middle class face packs and chemicals and dog shit infested mud for the proles dinner. it's only fair. doing the right thing should pay off.

not nettles twistyfeet !!!

They grow in my mums council house back garden.

Maybe they should kick her out so a nice MC family can have them.

A blackberry tax.