How often do you eat gooseberries?

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Gooseberries were once illegal across America and even now they're still forbidden in some states such as Maine. The French have no word for gooseberries instead referring to them as "groseille à maquereau" or mackerel currents. Although seen as an English fruit you rarely see them on sale and most people who eat them either have bush in the garden or a neighbour who's had a glut and is sick of them. Countless British children have bitten into a gooseberry thinking it's just a hairy grape.

AviatorTom · Accepted Answer

Never had one. Gooseberries are not common in the USA. At one time, they were banned because they contribute to a disease that kills trees. The nationwide ban no longer applies but some states like Maine still have restrictions on them.

ChrisMaster69 · Accepted Answer

Love Gooseberry’s  pretty much two or so different crops with them great for adding to crumbles etc aLso good for wine

FreyaRed · Accepted Answer

I have some bushes in garden but 80% are eaten by birds. Ripe they have similar taste to kiwifruit but more intense. Never have seen gooseberries in big supermarket chains, I guess it's an exclusive garden fruit.

IsoUser · Answer

To be Cooked perfectly in a sugar free pie if Doctor showed me too much sweets = likelyhood of cancer recurring. So essentially rarely if ever EAT Sweets

goaded · Answer

When they're properly ripe, they're delicious. Squeeze until it pops, then suck out the sweet seedy goodness from the middle. We had bushes in the garden.

bolverk · Answer

We used to have 6-10 bushes in the garden of the house I grew up in that gave us 20lb of Gooseberries a year, I've no Idea if they're still there as I had to move out of that house when my father died.

bean2k21 · Answer

Send me the link to an AirBnB, I'll come eat some gooseberries with you.

AFretiredTXn · Answer

Ate Gooseberries all the time as a kid. Found bushes in the woods near my house.

clemdenim · Answer

we had a few gooseberry plants when i was a child, we ate them green before they ripened

EaterPeter · Answer

I have eaten goose berry pickled in salt water

Anonymous · Answer

Never tried them, but Id love too.

Pete671 · Answer

I grow goosberries in my garden,

Sparkie460 · Answer

I didn't even know they existed

Creampiekarl420 · Answer

I’ve ate them and recently poison ivy too

Tstrbrainer · Answer

I'd love to, why is it illegal?

Dinosaursandanime65 · Answer

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