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do I need to keep burping them?

Probably not, but if they’re still offgassing after a week, make sure you eat ’em quick. They’ll be even tastier, but they might not stay good for long.

I mean, my experience with kimchi is that it just gets better & better until suddenly it ain’t no good no more.

You don’t bury it in a clay pot for a month?

I have never had Gooseberries. Are they tastyyummygood?

They are incredibly sour. And they come on a bush with huge stabby thorns. And you have to slice off their stems and tails by hand before freezing.

They’re a misery, like I said.

I always thought gooseberries were made up, like snozzberries or dingleberries.

@Veeshir: Alas, dingleberries are not made up. At least not the canine and feline varieties.

I’ve never heard of snozzberries. Are those like boogers?

You guys crack me up.

Incredibly sour….. Big stabby thorns…. Have to be individually hand-stripped before freezing. Hmmmm, no wonder I’ve never seen a gooseberry in my life.

Still, I am in a rare cheerful mood this morning so I thought I would find a delicious gooseberry receipe to show Weasel how they are really worth all the trouble.

Well, instead I found this:

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/what-do-gooseberries

You know you’re off to a bad start when the title is ” What To Do With Gooseberries”. I mean, you never see a title like “What to do with Cherries”‘ do you?

The first line of the recipe doesn’t help either. It starts out…..
“ The gooseberry is a funny thing. Often hairy and a little tart….
Hairy? Hairy Berries?. Great! So then, let’s just add this small comment buried in the article, “ Try sourcing ‘Invicta’ gooseberries – the very thorny shrubs are loaded with tart, green berries tucked away in the middle of the plant” Wonderful!

Our next point of worry interest is
“Gooseberries vary wildly in sweetness so the ratio really depends on personal taste. Start with two parts gooseberry to one part sugar . So, essentially nine pounds of gooseberries are going to require the entire sugarcane crop of a small Caribbean island just to make them edible. Great!

Next we see a recipe suggestion that only a British Chef (sic) could give,
“ Pair with mackerel for a Yorkshire classic, or partner with other oily fish, …..Yum!
And finally, a suggestion that seems pretty much a warning aimed directly at Soaty herself,
“ Gooseberries pair well with elderflower. Try adding a spoonful of the compote to elderflower cordial with a little fresh ginger for a refreshing summer drink.. Friends and Physicians of the Badger clan will recall how the elderberry cordial experiment came out.

Uncle Badger, you should be very proud. This woman, er, weasel, obviously loves you very, very much.

I didn’t know anything about actual gooseberries. I had encountered “gooseberry” as a term for a third party accompanying a romantic couple.

I wonder if “incredibly sour.. with huge stabby thorns” has a connection.

Hmmm-m-m…

Stuff like:

“incredibly sour.. with huge stabby thorns”

– would (and should, to my mind) tend to bring forth the rather-pertinent question: Why, then, do anything at all about, with, to or otherwise-directly-involving gooseberries?

Given, for example, the rather ready availability of such far-more-desirable items as strawberries, raspberries, grapes of a wide range in choices, plums, mulberries and cranberries – even such less-frequently-found provender as elderberries and lingonberries…

Mayhap, this is some sort of British-y ritual self-punishment thingy?…

As to China’s financial confugelties…well – what can one say, really?

Re: burping carrots, I suppose it depends on how many you’ve eaten.

Fuck. I was browsing google images and stumbled upon this accidently. I laughed so hard I thought I was gonna pass out.