To not want to buy blackberries in the supermarket as I think of them as 'free'

[Cinammoncake]

When I was a kid we often picked them, they just seemed to be everywhere. I don't see them where I live now, and I do like them, but feel like it's a rip off to buy them, and they always seem expensive. Anyone else? AIBU

YANBU, we love blackberry picking in summer.

I buy bags of frozen ones out of picking season

Hmmmm. Just wondering where in a terraced street in the middle of Salford (a la Coronation Street) I can pick blackberries, apples, pears, chives, laurel etc.

The supermarket ones are highly suspect to me. Weirdly homogenous, the wrong size and look like they taste of nothing.

We moved house last summer and found to our delight a whole car-free lane 5 mins walk away liberally lined with brambles. We ate ourselves about sick on blackberries for a couple of weeks after we realised nobody else was picking them.

Iklboo, I’ve often found blackberries in urban areas - the sides of footpaths/cut throughs, the edges of parks, abandoned plots of land, people’s overgrown gardens...they’re the one ubiquitous fruit I think!

They don't grow this time of year, and country lore says not to eat them after Michaelmas anyway, so you have to buy them if you want to eat some now - otherwise wait until next autumn for free ones!

I had to stop myself saying to a customer "why are you buying blackberries, go and pick some!" in September last year. We've got a big field just down from us and last year I took 3 of my grandchildren, all aged under 7, down the blacberry field. Omg they had great fun! 2 of them told their parents they'd never had such a fantastic time before (waste of time taking them on holiday, or to the cinema!) 3 kids, plastic pot each, go! Best time ever.