In *good* news, I went to the other grocery store today

[conuly]

to pick up pancetta, which is half the price it is at my closer grocery store, and it turns out that berry season has arrived! Two pounds of strawberries for $3! Two boxes of raspberries for $4! Neither of those are actually berries, but whatever!

I was also able to get purslane. That is also not a berry. Neither are the cherries I picked up for $2 a pound. We are going to be eating so much fruit this summer. Just can't wait until the farmer's market gets ripe peaches in. And currents.

I wait all year for fresh, ripe fruit that isn't bananas* or oranges** or apples. Can't eat those hard peaches and plums that you get most of the year. I'm gonna eat myself sick.

* these are berries

** so are these

Comments

[steorra]

I think "berry", like "fruit", is a term that has a different culinary definition than botanical definition, and both are legitimate in their own areas.

Strawberries were called berries hundreds of years (maybe even a thousand years?) before the botanical definition of "berry" solidified to what it is now, and the culinary definition is still in use, so I think it still counts.

[conuly]

Yes, but using the botanical definition where the culinary one is more appropriate amuses me.

[steorra]

Fair :-)