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.

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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.

I never had them, but they look like a tart cherry.

Somewhere in the zone between gooseberries and rhubarb.
Complex flavor worth the effort.
Best unsweetened IMHO.

An allrecipies article:
“What Is a Huckleberry and What Does It Taste Like?“
https://www.allrecipes.com/art...at-is-a-huckleberry/

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've had them in ice cream while on a trip to Montana. They were pretty good. I like tart fruits, but I didn't think they were super tart.

Pick in the morning.
Pie in the afternoon.
Yum.

I live in Flathead valley in Montana and everything is huckleberry. They are a slightly tart blueberry.

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..

Val Kilmer?

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.

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.

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.

Never had huckleberries raw either. “Jam on Main”, a breakfast place in Bozeman, has a mean huckleberry jam though.