Okay, so another fruit all the way from the Pacific Northwest.
This came from Raymond again. So, thank you once again Raymond, for sending me all these
fantastic fruits.
This is one I've never even heard about before. It's called the Salal. This one,
he said that they usually have a delightful flavor to them,
but if they taste bland or bad, not to review them. So if these aren't good,
then I'm not gonna post this. I want to give this a proper representation.
But as with a lot of foraged fruits, if you get like you get them at the wrong time,
or you pick it from the wrong tree or something, you might get something that doesn't really taste very good. There's a lot of
variables with foraged stuff. I couldn't find like anything really commercial
that is consumed that's related to this besides the eastern teaberry, where we get the
wintergreen flavor.
The majority of wintergreen flavoring is from the teaberry. Wintergreen is like a key component in like root beer.
So if you ever drink a glass of root beer and you're like, oh it's kind of like a weird minty taste to it,
it's because of that flavoring. This berry is used as an appetite suppressant, and it was used extensively
by the Native Americans. They would use this both fresh and dried.
They mix it into things and use it to thicken things,
I believe. It is often combined with the Oregon grape.
They combine those together to make jams and pie filling and stuff like that, because I guess they go well together. The Oregon grape,
is like
super sour and very strong. This one I think is supposed to be more mild. So they're supposed to pair well together.
That is all the Wikipedia information that I have for you guys. I'm kind of like in a hurry right now.
I'm about to go on tour, and
I wanted to review these now before I get in a car. So that's why I'm trying to do this like a little quickly.
Blueberries. They taste very similar to blueberries.
They've got like that
kind of... I described it in like my last video as like a "creaminess".
I don't know if that's a super like accurate way of describing it. More like a mellowness, like a mellow
sweetness that blueberries have
this has. And they are quite sweet. Not like insanely so, but they are sweet.
I'd say like a level of you know, like 1 to 10 where 10 is a sugar cube,
this is maybe like
5. It also tastes a little bit like, um,
like blackberries.
Like when I was a kid there used to be like
a bramble bush-- I think they were blackberries-- outside my house and I'd pickberries from it.
These kinda taste like that. They have like that
sweetness and
kind of like herbal kind of flavor that like a foraged
bramble would have, the foraged like
raspberry or blackberry would have. This is kind of terrifying. You see, it's got that little cross on it? Well, watch.
Yeah. It's like a little bit like that scene in "Alien",
you know. It's a little bit like a little face hugger.
If you squeeze it, like the inside just kind of
inverts. It's still like... it didn't like break or anything. It just kind of like turns inside out.
And if you pick off the edge of it, you get into all the little seeds and their seeds are a green color.
Hmm, Raymond said that when these are super ripe, they taste a little minty,
and I want to say that these taste minty.
But they don't. If I really try and focus on it,
I can pick up like a touch of it,
I think. I don't think that's all in my mind,
but
I guess like if these develop more then they do actually get a little of the wintergreen flavor, which makes sense because they're related.
These ones in particular, they
don't have so much of a minty taste, but I think like if you get them from different traders, let them
go a little bit further in their growing season, they do develop that flavor.
But even without that mintiness, I do actually like these quite a lot. I love blackberries. I love blueberries.
The fact that they kind of come out like a little facehugger kind of creeps me out a little bit, I won't lie. But
the flavor of these is really good. I would make jam out of this, combining it with Oregon grape as people do is a great idea.
I think those would pair very well because these are not very sour. If you wanted to make a jam, you know,
you'd want it to be like that.
But as it is super tasty. There's going to be a preview at the end of this video, so don't go anywhere.
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