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Blackcurrants and cranberries
Jul. 17th, 2009 08:18 pmThere's a lot of cranberry in Canada. Cranberry juice, cranberry muffins, cranberry with other berries, cranberry alone (cranberry with turkey, nom nom nom). The few times I've been to the UK, there's been little or no cranberry products to be found - it's all black currant.
What's the deal? Other than regional availability, which doesn't hold much water with me 'cause I bought an avocado and Ceres juice from the corner store just now, and neither one of those are exactly native to the GTA. Is there any good reason? Or should I head back to the store and buy six more boxes of this excellent black currant tea and stop wishing for a more equitable cranberry to black currant ratio?
This post brought to you by this really excellent cup of black currant tea that I wish would last all evening.
ETA: I think I should add that a few years back Mum did a full-on rant about the absolute absence of cranberry-free muffins at Durham College. Damn near everything has cranberry in it. You want raspberry juice? It's got cranberry. Want a smoothie? Most of the time it's got cranberry. What set my Mum off was that she wanted a simple bran muffin (or oatmeal, or some other simple, kind muffin) and every variety available at that moment was either cranberry or cranberry/blueberry.
The other thing Canada needs to get on board with is the wacky trend of having juice at a convenience store that's made from actual juice, not flavoured sugar water. They're not even allowed to call it "juice". That FUZE crap? Has cream and soybean oil in it. Talk about a wacky aftertaste....
What's the deal? Other than regional availability, which doesn't hold much water with me 'cause I bought an avocado and Ceres juice from the corner store just now, and neither one of those are exactly native to the GTA. Is there any good reason? Or should I head back to the store and buy six more boxes of this excellent black currant tea and stop wishing for a more equitable cranberry to black currant ratio?
This post brought to you by this really excellent cup of black currant tea that I wish would last all evening.
ETA: I think I should add that a few years back Mum did a full-on rant about the absolute absence of cranberry-free muffins at Durham College. Damn near everything has cranberry in it. You want raspberry juice? It's got cranberry. Want a smoothie? Most of the time it's got cranberry. What set my Mum off was that she wanted a simple bran muffin (or oatmeal, or some other simple, kind muffin) and every variety available at that moment was either cranberry or cranberry/blueberry.
The other thing Canada needs to get on board with is the wacky trend of having juice at a convenience store that's made from actual juice, not flavoured sugar water. They're not even allowed to call it "juice". That FUZE crap? Has cream and soybean oil in it. Talk about a wacky aftertaste....
