Comments on: “Brown as a Berry”

By: Greenmarket Grub: Red Currants | gezellig-girl.com

Greenmarket Grub: Red Currants | gezellig-girl.com — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:41:37 +0000

[...] are closely related to gooseberries (also quite tart) and, unsurprisingly, are a good, mouth-puckering source of Vitamin C. If [...]

By: Kristen

Kristen — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:49:43 +0000

Dan: Raisin cream pie! That sounds awesome and gross at the same time. More towards the awesome side, though. I’m going to investigate the matter further. (Also, digging up the Chaucer quote = NICE.)

Rachel: Well, they’re all in season now — white, black, and red — if you’re looking to take a road trip.

By: rachel

rachel — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:31:33 +0000

white currants? we can’t even find the red! or black! And gooseberries…
I’ve never seen brown gooseberries before-pretty!

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:16:13 +0000

Also, check out some naughty Chaucer: (courtesy of WikiAnswers)
From Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, (the Monk’s Tale), 1386-1400:

the monk’s taleHe was a lord full fat and in good point;
His eyen stepe and rolling in his head
That stemed as a fornice of a led;
His botes souple, his hors in gret estat,
Now certainly he was a sayre prelat.
He was not pale as a forpined gost;
A fat swan loved he best of any rost;
His palfrey was as broune as is a bery.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:14:03 +0000

Gooseberry pie is, in fact, one of my favorite pies in existence. It is trumped ever so slightly by raisin cream.