A Nation Divided: Cranberries, Good or Bad?

Ucomics.com ^ | 11/27/03 | Sprengelmeyer and Davis

[Cagey]

Cranberry Trivia

November 2002

• John Webb, the first recorded New Jersey grower, was also the first person to notice that good cranberries bounce. Because he had a wooden leg, John couldn’t carry his cranberries down the stairs, so he dropped them instead. He soon noticed that the firmest berries bounced to the bottom but the rotten ones stayed on the steps.
  
  
• The cranberry is one of three fruits native to North America. The other two are the Concord grape and the blueberry.

Wild cranberries were probably served at the first Thanksgiving meal. Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and New Jersey are the top three cranberry growers in America. About 10% of the country’s cranberries come from New Jersey.

• If you lined up all the cranberries produced in North America in 2000, they would stretch from Boston to Los Angeles more than 565 times.
  
  
• The first cranberry crop was harvested in 1816 in Massachusetts.
  
  
• Cranberries grow wild in northern states from Maine to Wisconsin and down the Appalachian Mountains to North Carolina.
  
  
• There are 4,400 cranberries in one gallon of cranberry juice.
  
  
• In 1996, the worldwide cranberry harvest produced 40 cranberries for every person on the planet.
  

[Mercat]

"Cranberries transcend the categories of Good and Bad. Cranberries are Mephistophelianly wicked. Eating cranberries is pact with the devil! Americans need to realize that their addiction to cranberries makes the whole world resent them. You wonder why the Islamokazies and French hate us? Look no further than cranberries! We are a bunch of self-satisfied, cranberry gulping, narrow-minded diners."

And I thought it was because we ate popcorn and peanut butter (hopefully not at the same time.)

[BooBoo1000]

My friends son suffers from bouts of "Gout" very painful, and his doctor, a real MD. has him drink real, straight Cranberry Juice from Trader Joe's. It must be very bad tasting as he( the Son) makes the worst faces, and barks and gags around, but it cures his gout.