I worry about gooseberries

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Aibu

There was scandal in my home town last week when someone stole ALL the gooseberries from the allotments! Every last one. It was on facebook and everything.

So somebody wants them.

I can't remember the last time I had a gooseberry. I'll pop some in my Tesco online shop in a mo.
Recipes welcome, please.

I love gooseberries and I love rhubarb.

They haven't got any! Only fools. Are they not in season right now?

Our gooseberry bush has produced no berries this year. I am most annoyed (although there are tons of blackcurrents). Last year we had lots of gooseberries but no blackcurrents, I think they are in cahoots and messing with our heads.

I moved my gooseberry bush yesterday (ooer missus) and am very impressed with its calm acceptance of the new environment. My bush is made of stern stuff, you know

Ig that cake looks delicious lucky colleague

My granny made the best gooseberry fool in the universe. Ever.

Rhubarb is not as misunderstood as gooseberries. I do not worry about rhubarb. It is not on my vegetable worry list.

I love them! They need to be quite ripe though so the skin is thinner - they're sweeter then. I enjoy them raw but best is frozen - an individual sorbet with every one.

I get quite upset when I run out as nowhere sells them frozen.😭

Living in the rhubarb triangle, rhubarb is very well celebrated. There is an annual festival of Food Drink and Rhubarb. Every year there are stalls full of rhubarb products. You don't need to worry about rhubarb

It's literally decades since I ate a gooseberry though so i think your fears are well founded OP

Love gooseberries. My mil makes a spicy chutney out of the sour ones. They are only seasonal for a tiny little while so I do worry round about now that I have missed them this year.

I just got a gooseberry bush. I was thinking I would make jam. Now I'm terrified I will find infant humans under it. Aibu?

Now I like testes, but not in jam. Never in jam

Although... if one is plum out of plums they aren't a bad substitute in a pie! But agree, never in jam!

@Maelstrop 😍😍😍

Cawston Vale do a luscious gooseberry fizz, but I have only ever seen it in one shop, and I cant remember which one it was.

YANBU OP. Currently waiting for these hairy green balls to appear for sale, I’ll be on the scrounge everywhere to make sure I freeze lots. Last year’s gooseberry cake is still talked about by my friends and family. I’ve already had a few grumbles asking WHEN the cake is going to be made 🤔

Cape gooseberries are delicious though.

I worry because I cant find any anywhere - wanted to make a gooseberry & elderflower cake this weekend but couldn't find a single gooseberry - fresh, frozen or tinned - in the town where I live. What is the word coming to?

I shall consider it a public service, if I spot them on sale, to do a woop woop announcement and draw attention to it. I would like to singlehandedly increase consumer demand for my hairy green friends (and the bald ones) but would be grateful for woop woops from others if you see them in the shops

I saw some at Tesco (rural Scotland) this weekend but they looked underripe. They were in one of those plastic containers so I couldn't give them a squeeze to check.There was also nowhere near enough of them in one pack for a cake or similar. You'd need at least five of them.
My own one are still a few weeks away from harvesting, everything is late this year, we've only just had elderflowers coming into bloom.

@Owlish - proper flashback moment there I'd forgotten the word guzgogs.

Gooseberries are lovely and beautiful on the inside. They'll find their great romance one day.

Rhubarb is indeed currently quite fashionable, but I must admit I do still worry about it a little. Like a pp, I grew up in the Rhubarb Triangle and all the fields in and around our village were rhubarb. That is no longer so; they have all gone. All of them.

My great grandparents were rhubarb farmers. They got up at 1am to harvest it by candlelight and send it off on the train from Leeds to London in time for Covent Garden Market in the morning.

I have a patch of ancestral rhubarb thriving here down south; a piece of crown brought down from my mother’s rhubarb patch, which originated from a piece of crown from her father’s patch, etc etc.

And back on topic, I also have a fine ancestral red gooseberry bush that was propagated from my grandpa’s.

I saw a gooseberry scented candle the other day. I was thinking that I could t quite think what the smell of gooseberries were so I gave it a sniff. It smelt like generic foliage.

I quite like gooseberries but only ever seem to see them forsake at farmers markets.

I am heartened by this thread as I had no knowledge of the rhubarb triangle beforehand. It briefly raised my hopes that there might be a gooseberry oblong or something, but alas no. Still, I’m glad for the rhubarb and I shall console myself by making rhubarb jam.