[ SECRET POST #3111 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3111 ⌋

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[Peaky Blinders - not a repeat]


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Comments

Re: Question thread

[(Anonymous)]

Are gooseberries thus named because geese are partial to them or because they make good sauce/stuffing to eat a goose with?

Re: Question thread

[fingalsanteater]

I don't know the answer but I love this question.

Re: Question thread

[(Anonymous)]

From looking on Wikipedia my sense is that no one actually knows

That said, I don't think that gooseberries would go particularly well with goose. IDK tho, I've never tried it.

Re: Question thread

[(Anonymous)]

http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/gooseberry/

Re: Question thread

[(Anonymous)]

It is the latter:
http://www.which.co.uk/home-and-garden/garden/guides/grow-soft-fruit/gooseberries/

Re: Question thread

[(Anonymous)]

Fancy that, French call them "mackerel berries" because they go well with mackerel too. (But I wouldn't try, because I don't like fish.)

Re: Question thread

[(Anonymous)]

Meh, they make better jam, than substituting them for cranberries/cranberry sauce. (Wouldn't stuff a bird with them nononono.) Tho' everything's so expensive food-wise, I might just go with gooseberries instead, this year, since they're free.

...er, they smell like feet, by the way. Before they're cooked, I mean.

Re: Question thread

[(Anonymous)]

You gotta check the variety of gooseberrie they come in supersharp culinary varieties which are completely inedible if not cooked, or they come in desert gooseberry varieties which you can eat raw because they are sweet and also lightly cook but not use for jam because the flavor will vanish. Plus if you buy store bought gooseberries they'll be unripe and you'll need to ripen in a bag of bananas for a week before you can use it for either.

Re: Question thread

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

...I get mine from the bog in the backwoods LOL...

Re: Question thread

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like you have a culinary variety then, they are kinda like apples in that wild varieties tend to go back to their sharp origins.

Re: Question thread

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Yep, they definitely need to be cooked. Now I want gooseberry pie. :P I can't see stuffing a bird with even a sweet version of gooseberry, though; wouldn't the berries just go to mush/water and run out/not flavour the bird at all? That being said, I usually stuff whatever poultry I'm cooking with an onion, and call it done. But I like stovetop stuffing, so. (I am a philistine for this, according to my family.)

Re: Question thread

[herpymcderp]

I'd guess that it's probably a bastardization of some other old English word that didn't mean anything like goose at all.