I know. Im in a hole on my own here. My wife loves them too. They stink, they are a gritty after taste with a metallic overtone. Ughh. I can tolerate black olives and thats about it, but I avoid the olive station at the grocery stores like the plague. And the kicker is I'm half Italian!!!! hahaha
I also like dried fruit except raisins. Eat too many peaches off the tree, can have an unfortunate effect.
Probably the biggest thing I miss from The Wet Side of Oregon is the fruit , especially when it was literally all around you. Growing up in LO in our yard alone we had 3 kinds of apple trees, pears, peaches, filberts, and walnuts (until the huge tree came down during the Columbus Day storm). Every year we'd grow watermelon, pumpkin, cucumbers and tomatoes. In the alley (neighbor's back yards) were cherries, plums, grapes, blackberries, blueberries and rhubarb. And salmonberries in Tryon Creek. There are some remnants still standing in LO but a drive through the old neighborhood reveals a tiny fraction of the bounty that grew back then. So far over here we've got wild strawberries on their second year, peppers and tomatoes in our greenhouse, and I'm planning on transplanting some blackberries outside to see if they'll survive the winter.
I ate off every fruit tree in Oswego which is now called First Addition. If you had fruit trees, I ate off them. I never ate salmon berries in the Tryon Creek area. I always thought they were poisonous. Loved seeing the trilliums, though. Ate trout caught out of the creek and my grandmother once pulled about a four pound steelhead out of the creek. That shocked a lot of us. Most of the fish I ate were fresh water perch caught in Oswego Lake near the railroad tracks. Never had good luck fishing sucker creek. Speaking of plums and rhubarb, I only knew of that in my Aunt's house on fourth and "C which is now a park. My grandmother had the most delicious figs I've ever eaten. She also had fabulous black caps.
I took cuttings of my father's fig tree and rooted them. In drought years not much crop but when we get rain I have bushels of figs the size of small pears.
You are lucky you left. All those fruits you mentioned are now members of MS-13 and are likely to kill you. Gang fruit is everywhere now and the city government does nothing. barfo
Nope, you haven't been reading closely enough. Heck, this isn't even my first post in the thread. barfo
