[CFW]

Bubba Gump's blueberry glut:

We can make blueberry pie, blueberry salad, blueberry ice cream, blueberry milkshakes, fried blueberries, steamed blueberries, ......

[RichardW]

I love blueberries.

[MrNeutron1962]

Mrs Neutron is in heaven, she would eat blueberries 3 times a day if she could. I have a dozen blueberry (High Bush, not low bush like talked about here) bushes, and a freezer full of them every summer.

[larryjohnson]

My daughter farms organic bluberries and sells them directly to health stores. She gets $4.00 per lb. Other growers are getting $.25 a lb. That's 25 cents from the coops they sell them to. It's supply and demand,folks.

[elephantlips]

Believe it or not, the largest Blueberry farm is in Southern New Jersey!

[FrogMom]

Put them in the store at lower prices, I'll buy them!

I looked at them in the local market the other night, they cost 2.99 for a half pint so I left them there - bring down those prices and I'll fill my freezer.

[r9etb]

Stan Jones's family could use them to match dear old dad...

[M-cubed]

Ahhh...where to begin... Someone better do that study over!...the harvests shot up in the 70-80's as a result of the herbicide Velpar a chemical thats seems not to dissipate and eventually leaches into the groundwater.... Can you say OCEANSPRAY, Canadian subsidized competition, (same with potatoes, lumber, lobsters Christmas trees etc.) a little greed and corruption, the Indians Land Claims....lots of reasons behind the scenes...

[ricpic]

They're a little pricey. But it's a pity that blueberries aren't more popular. Aside from the taste, they're loaded with anti-oxidents.

[MadIvan]

Why isn't there a "Blueberry Jam for Ethiopia" drive then? I understand they're having another famine - send the excess blueberries in jam form (for easier storage) to there. Same goes for Iraq.

Regards, Ivan

[JimVT]

I thought this might be of interest to Freepers:

The North American blueberry is related to the European bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus). Bilberries have a very high anthocyanin content because the pigment is in both the skin and the flesh. In the North American blueberry, the pigment is only found in the skin. For that reason, small berries have proportionally more anthocyanin because the proportion of skin to flesh is higher than in large berries. Because wild (lowbush) berries are generally smaller than cultivated (highbush) berries, the anthocyanin content of the lowbush berries is generally higher.

Bilberries have been used in folk medicine in Europe for centuries and extracts of bilberry (sometimes mixed with blueberry extract) are sold in health food stores in Europe and North America. Scientists are now actively investigating the health benefits of the anthocyanin pigment in bilberries and blueberries. Promising research areas for the use of extracts from these plants are in opthamological applications, diabetes and inflammatory joint disease.

[Revolting cat!]

Has anybody thought of using blueberries as fuel to power automobile engines? That would be one way to deal with our dependency on OPEC!

[dfwgator]

George Carlin would be happy, there's finally some blue food.