If blackberries were growing in your garden…

[hugebuyersremorse]

Would you pick and eat them? The actual bush they’re growing on nobody owns and it’s behind our back fence, but it’s overgrown and has curved over our fence. I’d say there are probably easily 50 or more ripe blackberries within reach.

DH has said a dog might have done its business on the roots of the bush… (😂) so he’s not so sure about it. I can’t see a problem, surely no different from fruit that you buy from the supermarket.

YABU - don’t eat them
YANBU - pick them and eat them!! winning

I ate loads from bushes growing in a graveyard last week. It was an old graveyard with no new graves if that makes it better.

Bloody Hell, I have never seen a YANBU poll at 100% 😁

Don’t let him read the thread about the worms/maggots that are in blackberries!

Pick them and scoff them - I'd be hanging over the fence for more if it looked like they were going to go to waste!

You'll be asking us if its ok to pick dandielions next

Of course. I'd wash for cooking but happily eat some direct from the bush as we go, and allow my toddler to do so. I ate many many blackberries fresh as a child as I'm sure millions have and to my knowledge there are no communicable diseases from them- the tiny worms and bugs potentially ingested will be quickly destroyed by stomach acid.

Is your husband 6? Def make a crumble!

I wouldn't, I once picked a bunch that grows behind my house and they looked fine and then saw bugs crawling out of it!!! Never again. Forever disgusted, haven't bought any from shops since

Of course.

Tell your DH that all fruits and veg grow outside and get weed on. That's why we wash them before we eat them. Sit him down first. It might all be a shock.

I can't tell if you're joking.

Did you give up all fruits then?

OMG! Insects on fruit!

The birds have enough around here! So many out of reach of people and purple shit everywhere.

Just stick them in a bowl of water for a few days. They'll float to the top.

I always soak blackberries in water with salt in for half an hour before making jam with them - kills all the bugs and you can’t taste the salt afterwards.

Thank me later, bug haters!

We used to pick them as kids . Always soaked them in a sink full of salted water. Loads of little bugs would come out 🤮

I only eat fruit I can cut up and inspect now

Blackberry picking is a very popular activity where I live.

I've just had blackberries and cream for my pudding this evening. The blackberries came from the brambles growing on the land next to our garden.

Just wash them first - just like you should do for any fruit or veg.

The hamster had a blackberry for his treat this evening too. He liked it a lot.

Well the blackberries in my garden were seeded from bird shit as many blackberry bushes are! Of course I'd eat them.

Fresh so just pick and wash, like I used to do as a kid but without the washing!

Goodness me, you have fresh free fruit growing in garden an worried about this? The ones from the supermarket are much more unhealthy, blasted with chemicals etc.

Pick 'em, wash 'em, eat 'em. 😋

Op..........even to ask if its ok to eat the blackberries is beyond comprehension....... of course it is.
Dont you ever eat vegetables? Fruit? In what conditions do you imagine they grow?

Yes, exactly this. We literally just did that yesterday- made an amazing apple and blackberry crumble!

IMO you'd BU to not pick them and waste lovely fresh (and free) fruit!

I picked a bag full last week.on the freezer for an apple and blackberry pie.

I haven’t eaten them since I was a kid and saw a worm n the one i was eating. I have a phobia of things that wriggle so I threw up and it was all brambles. Can’t do it!

Off course I'd pick them, why would I pay £3 for a handful when I can pick them for free.