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

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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?

One time I took a huge mouthful of mouth wash and then realised it was bubble bath.

Il admit.... I had no idea. Google it and thought it was blueberries

We've got raspberries, blackberries, blackcurrants and blueberries in the garden.

I've recently had to get rid of a small mahonia bush that came with the garden as it turned out that it produced blue berries at the same time as the blueberry bush and DH was struggling to tell the difference as they were right next to eachother...

She bought blackberries in September??

Another crucial difference: blackberries are better in whisky. Blackcurrants are better in vodka (creme de cassis).

"She bought me a large glass of nice sweet black currant juice, except it was tarte evil blackberries."

It's blackcurrants that are tart and blackberries that are sweet though.

I know the difference because my nan grew blackcurrants in her garden and we just to pick them for her. They are quite tart though, not sweet, unless covered in sugar (I adore blackcurrant jam).

There aren't many blackberries left around us - they ripened much earlier than usual and it's just the weedy ones left now. If I wanted good blackberries I'd have to buy them from a shop too.

We still get enough to add to an apple pie from the garden but yes, there are lots of weedy ones this year. Lots of them shrivelled before they even got past the red stage. The apples are also from the garden

I have blackcurrants, redcurrants and whitecurrants growing in the garden (harvested now), and also raspberries. We go foraging for blackberries, and sometimes for sloe berries (to make sloe gin).

On the whole, DCs know their berries/currants.

My parents grew blackcurrants commercially for most of my childhood. In my experience, 99% of blackcurrants are tart bastards that encourage you to make faces like you've sucked lemons but taste utterly beautiful cooked with lots of sugar as muffins, jam and juice. The 1% of sweet ones must be picked on the right day in Summer, a day streaming with sunshine, and they must be eaten immediately or they turn into the other 99%.

Blackberries are the ones that go off as soon as you buy them.

Buy blackberries?

Blackberries on offer! And weighed out and cleaned!

My 2 year old can identify (and eat)
Blackberries
Raspberries
Strawberries
Blueberries

She will often stop mid-walk and ask for the blackberries on the plants that we pass.

I don't think she has had blackcurrants yet. At least, ones not in ribena.

blackberries get popped straight in one's mouth. blackcurrants have to be topped and tailed, individually. hate the buggers.

I know they're different, can't for the life of me remember which way round it is though - mainly due to the reason given by 21st century.

I know they're different, can't for the life of me remember which way round it is though

Gobsmacked. Truly.

Not mainstream fruits I was a child in the 70s and pretty poor and not at all from a foodie family. Blackberries or brambles were free for the foragers. Black currants were pretty mainstream due to Ribena!

Blackcurrants are deadly easy to grow and they make delicious homemade cassis and jam. You can cut a twig off, jab it into the ground, and the next year, it will have rooted and you'll have a crop of free cassis blackcurrants.

Am fairly confident that outside the bubble that is MN a lot of people wouldn't be 100% sure.
You don't often see blackcurrants in a supermarket, which is where a LOT of people buy their fruit. then, there's a LOT of other people who just don't buy fruit.
I know, and my dc know, as we have a blackcurrant bush and some brambles blackberry bushes in the garden, but I think a lot of people wouldn't.

I don't think we have black currants here in the US. Or at least they're not in mainstream grocery stores.

Looking at pictures, I'm sure I'd confuse them with blueberries if they weren't side by side.

Gobsmacked. Truly.
Really?

Of course I know the difference. Black currants are ILLEGAL, blackberries are not!!!!

Ok, not illegal everywhere in the States anymore, but still a no go in some areas.

FFS. All you suburban and country dwellers, where on earth do you think those of us who live in urban environments are going to find blackberries? Should we sit in a car and drive for 40/50 minutes to a hedgerow, or walk 5 minutes to a greengrocer and buy a punnet of the stuff?

There's really no need to be so smug.

Don't know why I got so worked up about that!

One is a currents, like redcurrents and white currents, the others are berries like raspberries.

Can I ask is it OK to pick raspberries now? They grow wild everywhere where I live and would quite like to give making jam a go. There are light (healthy looking) and then there's darker ones.