[thecodont]

My favorite berry!

[Hoodat]

Mine too.

[passionfruit]

I love them too! There was a boysenberry in the back yard that was a gift to my father in law from the son of the Knott family. Unfortunately, the berry bush died.

[mylife]

"You got nuthin on me!"

[Taft in '52]

My mother worked as a waitress at Knott’s Berry Farm in 1942—when it was still a berry farm.

[butterdezillion]

Mine are blooming great guns and have little green berries on right now, here in Nebraska. They’re big and juicy enough that I can squeeze the juice out and my husband can have them, as opposed to raspberries which don’t leave much after the seeds are removed - which my husband can’t have because of his ulcerative colitis.

I got one plant for next to nothing because it was almost dead at the farm store here in town. I had no idea what they were but was willing to give them a try. I’m glad I did. If I had a bigger area for the suckers to spread into I’d have tons before long.

[HerrBlucher]

You must be a Citizens for Boysenberry Jam fan.

[James C. Bennett]

I like Yoplait’s Boysenberry yogurt.

[Political Junkie Too]

This is California. We should call it the Genderneutralberry.

We shouldn't be imposing berry stereotypes on our fruit.

-PJ

[TexasKamaAina]

I grew up in So. California and remember my mother buying boysenberries from the door-to-door fruit peddler. I also remember when Knott's Berry Farm was known mainly for its chicken dinner.

Now, whenever I visit the Southland I shake my head at what its become.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Haagen-Dazs used to have a great boysenberry sherbet. I've wondered why they don't make it anymore. The LAT article explains one possible reason (not many large-scale growers). It turns out that Haagen-Dazs lost the recipe! "The one favored old-school flavor that still eludes Haagen-Dazs operators, however, is boysenberry, Uremovich said. In order to pass the brand’s gold standard, the ice cream would have to be the exact formulation Haagen-Dazs operators used to serve to customers, which Uremovich said was lost about 20 years ago. There is a cash prize being offered to any Haagen-Dazs operator that can find or reconstruct the formula." http://www.nrn.com/breakingNews.aspx?id=367370&menu_id=1368