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Most people know the difference between black currants and blackberries or AIBU?

81 replies

CatMilkMan · 27/09/2015 18:06

DP told me she had seen lots of black currants and said she would juice them, I love ribena so was pretty happy.
She bought me a large glass of nice sweet black currant juice, except it was tarte evil blackberries. I took a massive mouthful, it wasn't pleasant but anyway she had no idea blackberries and black currants are different things!
She is adamant that this isn't common knowledge, do you know the difference? Am I going crazy?

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FarFromAnyRoad · 27/09/2015 18:07

Broken Britain Sad

Grin
DoreenLethal · 27/09/2015 18:07

Yes of course. Blackcurrants were in season around 2 months ago so very unlikely to have been them in the first place.

addictedtosugar · 27/09/2015 18:09

Personally, yes. I know if he difference. My 4 yr old gets confused.

nocoolnamesleft · 27/09/2015 18:09

Oooooh, yum, I love wild blackberries. But would prob add a dash of honey...

Seriously, they're very different. I hope they bought them. Because uf they can't even tell the difference between blackberries and blackcurrant, then foraging could well result in picking something not edible!

RoganJosh · 27/09/2015 18:11

My DH doesn't eat fruit but says black currants are small and round, blackberries are bigger and have lots of blobbles.
Children age 5 and 7 say they are different too.

fieldfare · 27/09/2015 18:11

Clearly different.
Fancying an apple and blackberry crumble now though.

Original poster
CatMilkMan · 27/09/2015 18:12

She bought them on offer! Is blackberry juice hard to get out of shirts? I just spilt some.

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MrsLeighHalfpenny · 27/09/2015 18:14

Yes.

addictedtosugar · 27/09/2015 18:14

Ye, it stains like a bastard. Soak it now!

Original poster
CatMilkMan · 27/09/2015 18:16

Fuck. Thanks for the replies!

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cardoon · 27/09/2015 18:24

If you call the blackberries brambles it makes it easier to tell them apart Grin

Trills · 27/09/2015 18:28

You were wrong to expect fresh squished blackcurrants to be sweet, I think.

You were not wrong to expect most people to know the difference between blackcurrants and blackberries.

tethersend · 27/09/2015 18:28

Once, on a very hot day, I was at my friend's house and she cooked us sausages for lunch.

When her boyfriend came in, hot, sweaty and exhausted, he grabbed the can of delicious-looking ginger beer off the counter and knocked it back. He'd had quite a few manly gulps before realising that it actually contained the sausage fat my friend had drained from the pan.

YOU WERE LUCKY.

TamaraLamara · 27/09/2015 18:54

I stood behind a couple in a cafe the other day, one of whom was adamant that 'asparagus' is just another name for green beans. Their companion was unable to disagree as they didn't know what asparagus is. Confused

multivac · 27/09/2015 18:58

Blackberries are the ones with multiple bobbles.

Blackcurrants are the ones that Worra won't let her child talk about any more...

Cloppysow · 27/09/2015 19:04

A friend of mine knocked back a super cold bottle of juice he found in the fridge at work. As he swallowed the last mouthful, he realised it was prune juice. He had to take the rest of the afternoon of cos he kept shitting himself.

DoreenLethal · 27/09/2015 19:11

If you squeeze blackcurrants they are more tart than balckberries to be fair.

KurriKurri · 27/09/2015 19:16

Blackberries are sweeter than blackcurrants - which are knees up to the chest sour and full of pips and generally nasty beasts - you were lucky she got it wrong.

On the shirt - easier to dye the whole thing in blackberry juice than try to get the stain out.

BumpTheElephant · 27/09/2015 19:16

I reckon most people do know the difference. I certainly do, my 5 yr old definitely does. Not sure if my 3 yr old does yet though.
Sounds like she thought she was doing a nice thing, I expect she knows the difference now.

SilverOldie2 · 27/09/2015 19:22

I know the difference: blackberries are gorgeous, tasty, delicious with apples, plump, sweet berries picked from garden and hedgerow as opposed to vile, ghastly, horrible, sour, shrivelled little blackcurrants usually found in a garden.

Hope that helps Smile

LunchpackOfNotreDame · 27/09/2015 19:24

In the house of lunch we know blackberries blackcurrants blueberries raspberries and loganberries. Do we win?

lifesalongsong · 27/09/2015 19:27

I'm pretty sure that lots of people don't know the difference. Posters on here aren't a true reflection of society today ime (unless I live in a totally different world to everyone else).

They aren't what I would call mainstream fruits.

carabos · 27/09/2015 19:32

Blackcurrants are pretty much an endangered species. I search high and low year round for any form of blackcurrant without joy because they're all in flipping Ribena.

Blackberries otoh are everywhere, but not good this year. They seem to be very small and sour and mostly unripe Sad.

21stCenturyBreakdown · 27/09/2015 19:33

YANBU, but I blame blueberries for confusing the matter. Given the similarity in names, you'd expect blueberries and blackberries to be similar in appearance, but blueberries actually have much more resemblance to blackcurrants.

whatwhatinthewhatnow · 27/09/2015 19:39

The sooner she learns the difference, the sooner she will realise that even if they are "on offer" they are still more expensive than getting them for free from the shop called ALL AROUND YOU.

Who BUYS blackberries?!