My favorite fruits, by far, are berries, but I've never had huckleberries. I've not seen them in stores, and AFAIK, I've never lived where they grow and so have never come across them to sample.
I was wondering if folks in the huckleberry zones had any comments about them, any comparisons to more generally-available fruits, etc.
They look pretty tasty, I have to say.
Posts: 15137 | Location: North Carolina | Registered: October 15, 2007
My favorite fruits, by far, are berries, but I've never had huckleberries.
Me either, but they are supposed to have a "tart" taste to them, if you like that sort of thing. I do like olives, some varieties of which border on bitter.
Posts: 28587 | Location: Johnson City, TN | Registered: April 28, 2012
I never had them, but they look like a tart cherry.
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an acquired taste. I like to pick and eat at the same time.I prefer blueberries myself. Yes they are tart. No as tart if picked ripe which most do not do.
I had a great breakfast at a lodge in the Sawtooth mountains on I believe rt21, Huckleberry pancakes. Made a cold morning motorcycle ride alot better..
Posts: 2335 | Location: Florida | Registered: March 01, 2012
They grow lots of places at higher elevations. Yes, smaller and tarter blueberry flavor, which makes sense given that they grow wild where blueberries don’t. They are a delicious snack in the wild if you find them at just the right time. Otherwise, I wouldn’t bother. I doubt anything commercially sold as huckleberry is anything other than commercial blueberry. To me, it’s like honeysuckle flowers. They have a special flavor all their own, that is likely accentuated by the difficulty in obtaining it (long hikes, short seasons, small amount per fruit/flower). They are flavors that you experience individually, in the moments where they make unimaginable impressions. They cannot be replicated without the surrounding environment or experiences required to produce them.
Posts: 2161 | Location: NC | Registered: January 01, 2006
Funny this should come up. I just back BSA camp at Morrison in Idaho. The entire camp was covered in Huckleberry. We just ate them raw. When ripe, they are more sweet with a hint of tart, more tart when red. One of my favorite berries and I bet the would be great in pie or pastry or cooked into a sauce. I've heard they can't be grown easily and are only wild but don't know how true that is. Tillamook makes a huckleberry ice cream but it doesn't taste like the real thing and I don't care for it.
Huckleberries are what blueberries wish they could be.
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Posts: 1765 | Location: The Northernmost Broadcast Point of Radio Free America | Registered: February 24, 2012
Never had huckleberries,never seen them for sale. I'll check Jungle Jims. When I was a kid, visited relatives in Indiana. They knew where to go and you could pick a five gallon bucket full of blackberries for free. Love em. I just paid about 4 dollars at Krogers for a little plastic container of them.