I am super excited about this one. This is a teaberry, also known as a
wintergreen berry.
The guy that was selling this was selling a lot of---
he was like a forager.
He didn't have any other fruits than this, but he had a lot of like strange mushrooms and some like interesting like
greens and stuff, but a very like wild edible type looking things, and that's where this usually comes from.
Like, if you try this, it's very popular with foragers. Here it was sold for pretty expensive.
I bought like a tiny little bag-- maybe like
20 of these--
for about a dollar. So, not crazy expensive considering, you know, like what I'm getting out of this, but you know
it's not free, you know.
Like this is something that usually people
will pick it in their backyard, and they'll like make like a jam or tea out of it, or something like that.
These are called teaberries because they are used to make tea. People collect these and they brew it with water, and it's supposed to be
quite delicious. It's also where wintergreen comes from. The majority of wintergreen
flavoring comes from teaberries. And if you've never had wintergreen, I mean, it's in gum. It's in, like, there's wintergreen gum.
But there's also, it's one of the key ingredients in root beer.
So, what gives root beer its kind of root beer-ish kind of flavor is wintergreen, and some other roots and spices and stuff.
So yeah, something that's in a lot of things, but not normally consumed fresh for some reason, unless you forage.
But I guess that
this is popular
like, if you walk through a trail and you see this, some people that are in the know would like pick it and eat it.
But, let's see what it tastes like.
There's the inside, by the way.
It's like
white-- a little bit like an apple or something. Yeah, it does have a very strong
wintergreen flavor to it. But it also has some other little flavors in there. A little bit like hawthorn,
which, if you don't remember, that's kind of like a mild apple, kind of. Maybe like a little bit like jujube.
But, another thing that this tastes like, that it really reminds me of, that's very unexpected: it tastes like wax lips.
It's like that candy. I don't even know if they make that anymore. It has a slight
waxy
flavor to it, and I think now that I'm eating this,
I think those wax lips were wintergreen flavored. I never pieced it together when I was a child.
I just thought it was like wax. The fact that these have a little waxy kind of flavor to it makes it even more
like that.
But yeah, wax lips. That's what I'm gonna go with. But you know, if you want to do it a little bit more
sophisticated, it tastes like a little bit like wintergreen:
minty, root beer-ish, and
a little bit like copper. But really pretty good. I think this would be really good to make a tea out of. You know,
especially if you like root beer, if you like minty tea,
this would be really great as like an herbal tea.
Or, I know people make jam out of it as well.
It sounds a little weird, but honestly, I could use that. Sure.
I know people put like mint kind of like jam on like meat.
So maybe this would be good on meat, or to be used as more of like a savory kind of jam.
Like, you make jam out of this with like some onions or something.
And have it more like that way, with some strong cheese, that'd be really good.
There's like some like really good potential in these things.
But yeah, unfortunately, difficult to find unless you know how to forage. Or if you live in Montreal,
you can find someone who did the foraging for you, and then will sell it you.
Ok, so I think that's about it. I think I did enough babbling
for this particular fruit, so I will babble next time on another fruit. See ya, bye.
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