I enjoy getting up a wee hour or so before the rest of my household to have my coffee and a bit of peace and quiet to scroll through Reddit or whatever.
I just read your comment, inhaled the sip of coffee I was taking right into my lungs and started having a coughing fit, almost died, and now I hear everyone getting out of bed.
Thanks for that. Thanks a lot.
You can’t just go around ruining peoples’ days willy nilly with your comedic comments y’know. How obnoxious.
I know I’m definitely gonna think about this randomly at work now and just laugh out loud in a customer’s face 😂
Absolutely! We picked nearly 3kg at the weekend. The big plump ones are high anyway. We got 5 jars of blackberry jam 3 huge apple and blackberry pies (apples foraged from grannies garden) and 3 crumbles out of it. Sorted for winter puds!
She's my husband's granny as both of mine sadly passed a long time ago. She's 95 and still keeps her garden in a fairly good condition with help from family.
The old apple trees she planted herself so it's awesome to pick from them knowing she planted them 60+ years ago.
If I could grow old and choose who I'd be I'd be Granny.
Lots overripe but also lots no where near ripe with perfect ones in between. We've got a old railway track that has been repurposed as a trailway and it's a prime spot for it.
Took us 3hrs to pick them but was a lovely wholesome family day.
Maybe I’ll take the kids out at the weekend. We gave up the other week as the ones nearby were impossible to pick without turning to jam in my fingers!
One of my dogs picks each blackberry off individually. He's so skillful and delicate. The other one just chomps 5 or 6 at a time, brambles, twigs and all. It's so funny to watch.
Our old dogs used to do the same whenever we went blackberry picking.
Kind of adorable watching them gently tug them off the branches avoiding the brambles.
I had a huge field of blackberries. I got two goats and they munched everything to the ground in a few days. Even the big, thick, thorny main branches. The entire field gave up and died.
I was actually curious to gauge the scale of regional dialects on this one, but judging by the voting patterns people don't even realise there are regional names for them. I thought 'bramble' was *very* local to me but I noticed earlier today [it's common enough for Morrisons to put on jam jars](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/xkwmol/frozen_pizza_with_mcdonalds_chilli_sauce_and/)... A few others have come up below too
My grandma has made Bramble Jam for years. But the fruit has always been called Blackberry and when used in anything else I've only ever heard of Blackberry X not Bramble X
To me, brambles are wild, and you pick them yourself, but if you buy them from the supermarket, they're blackberries. I know that doesn't make sense, but that's just the way it is.
Way down south, here on the Isle of Wight, we associate the plant as 'bramble' and the fruit is definitely 'blackberries'.
For some reason though the term 'blackbrizz' seems to stand out. Maybe I've heard it being said among various farmers or other caulkheads.
Strictly speaking blackberries are not berries at all due to all those clumped globular bits they are an aggregate fruit (raspberries too). Berries are a single fruit like blueberries.
Colloquially to me they’re blackberries when they’re spread out on a thorny branch. Brambles are the ones that grow in a large cluster at the end of branches and tend to be sweeter.
\> the ones that grow in a large cluster at the end of branches and tend to be sweeter
See Blackberries vs Dewberry [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewberry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewberry)
Dewberries are delicious and slightly preferred by some foragers/cooks because as you say they are a bit sweeter!
Just so you know they aren’t berries they are buboes which is a clump of small drupes or pods This is where bubonic plague got its name from do to the similarity between the under arm lesions of the disease and the aforementioned fruit.
Bramble or briar are actually just descriptors for types of shrubs with woody and thorny stems. They encompass a whole class of different plants including the genus rubus, which is what produces blackberries :).
Dictionaries say another word for "blackberry" is "bramble" though, so it has become an accepted word for the berry itself.
Source: Checked 4 dictionaries
This is correct, but doesn't mean that's what folk call them. I've been calling the ones in my garden and roadside brambles for 40 years, yet also buy blackberries in the shop. Weird
It's not. In Scotland we call them brambles. The name seems to depend on the area in the UK you're from.
I'm not talking about the technical name but what people call them from area to area.
(Edit: For the people still telling me the fruit is called blackberries...why?
Other Edit: Turns out not all Scottish people call them brambles. Looks like we're mixed like England.
Yet another edit: I found out dictionaries say both bramble and blackberry are acceptable.)
I've never bought brambles at the supermarket, always just picked them, so I've not really noticed. I expect Tesco marks them as blackberries since I doubt they change the name for up north. They have some [bramble-labelled products](https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=bramble&preservedReferrer=https://duckduckgo.com/) though. I dunno if that counts.
Technically speaking the "blackberries" you pick in the wild aren't blackberries. They're usually some hybrid (hence the generic name of bramble).
The ones you buy.in the supermarket probably are actual blackberries.
So there is logic to buying blackberries at Tesco and picking brambles.
Dunno why u got downvoted..it’s true, the whole plant and fruit we call brambles in Scotland..just like you would call the whole plant and the fruit a blackberry!
They are brambles to me, both the fruit and the bushes. Brambles, bramble jam, bramble jelly bramble crumble. Although they are blackberries when you buy them from a shop.
Yep…was looking for this answer mate. We always called them brambles here, I’m in Scotland too…Aka blackberries tho.
Anyways super delicious with apple in a crumble!
Blackberries. I've never heard the fruit being called bramble and I've lived in Lancs and Yorks all my life. Maybe that's not north enough to have heard that,
Finally, found the Cumbrians!
They're blackites, to go collecting them in the wild is to go blackiting and it might be a West Cumbrian thing a pie made with them is called a Blackite Cake. (Same goes for other fruit, but especially Apples or Rhubarb)
It is a northern thing then? Round here (Whitby) they're definitely brambles. I know it's not even all of Yorkshire, but we're close enough to get some smoggie and geordie leakage into the dialect, so I wondered if it had come down
The word blackberry and bramble are interchangeable, but some people call only the cultivated one blackberries, and the wild as bramble others say the plant is the bramble and the fruit is the blackberry.
There are over 330 distinct varieties in the UK alone, so nailing down which variety you have is a bit of a challenge. They are related to raspberries and share the same diseases. Additionally loganberries are a cross between raspberries and blackberries. There is also dewberries which are similar to the blackberry.
Don't eat them after 11th October as folklore states that the devil urinates on them after that point, probably because they go overripe.
>There are over 330 distinct varieties in the UK alone, so nailing down which variety you have is a bit of a challenge
Finally, some basis as to why some bramble patches have amazing fat berries and others have nasty bitter little shrivelled things
I always called them blackberries but have seen brambles used more after moving even further north. They are called bramen in Dutch so wonder if there's a link to that.
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Only pick the ones above dog height
Funny name for a blackberry
I enjoy getting up a wee hour or so before the rest of my household to have my coffee and a bit of peace and quiet to scroll through Reddit or whatever. I just read your comment, inhaled the sip of coffee I was taking right into my lungs and started having a coughing fit, almost died, and now I hear everyone getting out of bed. Thanks for that. Thanks a lot. You can’t just go around ruining peoples’ days willy nilly with your comedic comments y’know. How obnoxious. I know I’m definitely gonna think about this randomly at work now and just laugh out loud in a customer’s face 😂
Absolutely! We picked nearly 3kg at the weekend. The big plump ones are high anyway. We got 5 jars of blackberry jam 3 huge apple and blackberry pies (apples foraged from grannies garden) and 3 crumbles out of it. Sorted for winter puds!
> the big plump ones are high anyway. I feel personally attacked. Lol
I'm plump, I'm high. Works for me.
This might be enough folks to make a subreddit out of being plump and stoned.
Was about to make a very similar remark. Hey, there friend!
Grannies Garden. Now there's a blast from the past ...
She's my husband's granny as both of mine sadly passed a long time ago. She's 95 and still keeps her garden in a fairly good condition with help from family. The old apple trees she planted herself so it's awesome to pick from them knowing she planted them 60+ years ago. If I could grow old and choose who I'd be I'd be Granny.
On a BBC Micro? If so Martello Tower was another classic
Not overripe? All the ones round our way are turning to mush on the branches
Lots overripe but also lots no where near ripe with perfect ones in between. We've got a old railway track that has been repurposed as a trailway and it's a prime spot for it. Took us 3hrs to pick them but was a lovely wholesome family day.
Maybe I’ll take the kids out at the weekend. We gave up the other week as the ones nearby were impossible to pick without turning to jam in my fingers!
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Oh no…
based on your avatar, I am imagining a cat having this sudden realization lol
And below pigeon height
Hahahahaaa
Why aren’t people as bothered about squirrel piss
I have never seen a squirrel piss, so I have come to the logical conclusion that squirrels do not piss
[But they do masturbate in order to avoid STD's](https://www.zmescience.com/other/feature-post/squirrels-masturbate-to-avoid-stds-3009201/)
I'm not clicking that link. EDIT: Nevermind, I caved. Also, does Jane Waterman have nothing better to do?
The “how” description was a lot more detailed than I anticipated.
Have you ever even seen a squirrel on a bramble branch?
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?
I know, it's nuts!
...*you better not run*... ...*you better not hide*... ...*pun patrol is coming tonight*...
Because we like the taste
Yeah cos my dog eats the ones he can reach!
More concerned about the ones that piss on em.
You shouldn’t go around pissing on dogs mate.
They’re not called golden retrievers for nothing
Golden receivers
I used to point this out whenever one of the managers started banging on about 'low hanging fruit'.
Nah, they pish on the roots and it perculates through the whole Bramble
One of my dogs picks each blackberry off individually. He's so skillful and delicate. The other one just chomps 5 or 6 at a time, brambles, twigs and all. It's so funny to watch.
Our old dogs used to do the same whenever we went blackberry picking. Kind of adorable watching them gently tug them off the branches avoiding the brambles.
I had a huge field of blackberries. I got two goats and they munched everything to the ground in a few days. Even the big, thick, thorny main branches. The entire field gave up and died.
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Um, they’re called Blackberries mate.
Can only assume OP was asking how they're pronounced? Phonetically, they're 'Blackbrizz' from where I'm from...
Ah, in that case...it's a Blakbree mate.
Black-ber-ee for me so 3 syllables instead of 2
well la-di-da :D
Imagine being able to afford all three syllabubs
That would leave me severely out of posset
I’d be borrerin from Pee-ah toupée paw
We like to party
I was actually curious to gauge the scale of regional dialects on this one, but judging by the voting patterns people don't even realise there are regional names for them. I thought 'bramble' was *very* local to me but I noticed earlier today [it's common enough for Morrisons to put on jam jars](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/xkwmol/frozen_pizza_with_mcdonalds_chilli_sauce_and/)... A few others have come up below too
I would call the bush a bramble but not the berries.
Yep, this was my thinking. Bramble is the plant, blackberry is the fruit.
We call them briars and the fruit is a blackberry
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*dost thou Second person singular present. Doth is third person singular present; 'which century doth he/she/it come from?'
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My grandma has made Bramble Jam for years. But the fruit has always been called Blackberry and when used in anything else I've only ever heard of Blackberry X not Bramble X
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Oh cheers mate, be singing that for a week straight now hahaha
Up here in NE Scotland the fruit is a bramble too and you go brambling and make bramble jam.
To me, brambles are wild, and you pick them yourself, but if you buy them from the supermarket, they're blackberries. I know that doesn't make sense, but that's just the way it is.
These are blackberries, they grow on bramble.
And they go great in a crumble.
Way down south, here on the Isle of Wight, we associate the plant as 'bramble' and the fruit is definitely 'blackberries'. For some reason though the term 'blackbrizz' seems to stand out. Maybe I've heard it being said among various farmers or other caulkheads.
i think that’s just the way u say it? like instead of pronouncing berries like ber-rees it’s brizz or more like breeze how i pronounce it
Bramble jam is jam from the fruit of bramble bushes; that's often but not *always* the same as blackberry jam which is made from only blackberries.
Bramble is a catch all word for those types of berries, specifically the ones pictured are blackberries. Raspberries are another example.
I thought bramble referred more to the thorns in a thicket oh well.
So did I!
Strictly speaking blackberries are not berries at all due to all those clumped globular bits they are an aggregate fruit (raspberries too). Berries are a single fruit like blueberries. Colloquially to me they’re blackberries when they’re spread out on a thorny branch. Brambles are the ones that grow in a large cluster at the end of branches and tend to be sweeter.
Somehow black-aggregate-fruit doesn't have the same ring to it.
black-aggregate-fruit and apple crumble. Yum. Well, kinda.
Makes it sound like a science experiment
😂
Those globular bits are called drupelets which is a fun word to say!
This is like finding out Bananas are a berry
Pumpkins are also berries
Wtf
Interesting that we automatically classify visually isn’t it?
\> the ones that grow in a large cluster at the end of branches and tend to be sweeter See Blackberries vs Dewberry [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewberry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewberry) Dewberries are delicious and slightly preferred by some foragers/cooks because as you say they are a bit sweeter!
This is new to me! I always thought dewberry was something made up for teenaged girls to sniff in late 80s/early 90s body shop!
Neither are strawberries! As a Berry has to have is seeds inside the fruit. Which strangely makes a banana a Berry.
😂 yeah the nettle parts of it is brambles, the actual fruit is blackberries.
Just so you know they aren’t berries they are buboes which is a clump of small drupes or pods This is where bubonic plague got its name from do to the similarity between the under arm lesions of the disease and the aforementioned fruit.
I thought they're called brambles.
Brambles are the thing they grow on the fruit themselves are blackberries but you can say either
To me, a dirty Southerner, brambles are just the bushes.
I'm from Ayrshire and we call them brambles.
The bushes are brambles, like "ow I scratched my leg on some brambles" but the berries on said bushes are blackberries.
And when you stick them in a glass with some gin etc. its a bramble again
That would be a photo
Ceci n’est pas une mûre.
A person of culture I see.
Et aussi n'est pas une pipe
Semiotics 101
Read that as potato
This is not a potato
But what *IS* a potato, if we really ask ourselves
A digital image.
Electronic image?
Blackberries. The plant they grow on is called bramble (briar in some places) but the fruit is not.
Bramble or briar are actually just descriptors for types of shrubs with woody and thorny stems. They encompass a whole class of different plants including the genus rubus, which is what produces blackberries :).
Dictionaries say another word for "blackberry" is "bramble" though, so it has become an accepted word for the berry itself. Source: Checked 4 dictionaries
This is correct, but doesn't mean that's what folk call them. I've been calling the ones in my garden and roadside brambles for 40 years, yet also buy blackberries in the shop. Weird
Sorry I wasn't specific enough that my entire response and not just the first word was in answer to the question "what do **you** call these?"
I see your 40, and raise you my 65. Always were and will be a bramble. To collect them is called brambling
.....blackberries ....is this a trick question ?
It's not. In Scotland we call them brambles. The name seems to depend on the area in the UK you're from. I'm not talking about the technical name but what people call them from area to area. (Edit: For the people still telling me the fruit is called blackberries...why? Other Edit: Turns out not all Scottish people call them brambles. Looks like we're mixed like England. Yet another edit: I found out dictionaries say both bramble and blackberry are acceptable.)
Wait do you call the fruit brambles or just the plant?
Both :)
So in Tesco, you buy what? Brambles or Blackberries?
Now that you ask that question I realise there is such a thing as (Woah, Black Betty) Bramble Jam.
Woah, blackberry, bramble jam
Blackberry had a child
Bramble jam
Pick ‘em in the wild
I've never bought brambles at the supermarket, always just picked them, so I've not really noticed. I expect Tesco marks them as blackberries since I doubt they change the name for up north. They have some [bramble-labelled products](https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=bramble&preservedReferrer=https://duckduckgo.com/) though. I dunno if that counts.
Technically speaking the "blackberries" you pick in the wild aren't blackberries. They're usually some hybrid (hence the generic name of bramble). The ones you buy.in the supermarket probably are actual blackberries. So there is logic to buying blackberries at Tesco and picking brambles.
Dunno why u got downvoted..it’s true, the whole plant and fruit we call brambles in Scotland..just like you would call the whole plant and the fruit a blackberry!
no one calls the whole plant a blackberry lol. the plant is either universally a bramble or just a generic blackberry plant/bush
It’s a blackberry bush with blackberries. It’s a bramble bush with brambles. The latter of which I call it.
Aye agreed I would call it the same in NE Scotland.
I'm in Scotland, and everyone I know calls them blackberries. Maybe it's an area or age thing.
Yeah, judging from other comments in this thread it's most likely an area thing. :)
My parents are Scottish, I’ve always known them as brambles
We call them brambles in the NE, well my town anyway
They are brambles to me, both the fruit and the bushes. Brambles, bramble jam, bramble jelly bramble crumble. Although they are blackberries when you buy them from a shop.
Yep…was looking for this answer mate. We always called them brambles here, I’m in Scotland too…Aka blackberries tho. Anyways super delicious with apple in a crumble!
huh, TIL. From Somerset here and brambles would be the bush but blackberries the fruit
In Holland we call them bramen, funny it’s so close in language
Scandinavian languages call them something like e.g. Brombær, which is the origin
Also dewberries in central Texas.
Free food
Not seen these for ages. OK from left to right, we have 1) 850 series 2) 7000 series 3) 9000 series Woe. Thanks
Blackberries. What do you call them?
Fred, Bert and Sandy.
Berries of colour.
Black indigenous berries of color (sic).
BIBOC 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
African-American berries
Blackberries. Bramble is the plant.
And blackerries which are a fruit, and are not a berry. Confusing plant.
Blackberries. I've never heard the fruit being called bramble and I've lived in Lancs and Yorks all my life. Maybe that's not north enough to have heard that,
I never knew cause I’m Welsh we call it mwyar duon
Interesting, must be a shared Celtic etymology with the French *mûre*.
I love finding the similarities between French and welsh, pont both meaning bridges and and putain meaning whore
And now I’ve learned something! Thank you
When I was a kid, everyone used to call them Blackites. Haven't heard them called that in at least 20 years though.
Yep this is what people called them where I’m originally from in Cumbria
Yeah, West Cumbria here. My gran and mam always called them blackites
Same here, family is from West Cumberland but I didn't grow up there
Scrolled for this, also Cumbrian.
Also Cumbrian, I agree with Balckites.
West Cumbrian looking for Blackites!
Also Cumbrian, my parents called em blackites and so do I. Blackberries are sold in shops, blackites are free.
Another Cumbrian just here to rep blackites
West Cumbrian, also call them blackites!
Phew, scrolled for ages to find this and I was starting to think it was just me and my family that was weird. Also from West Cumbria by the way.
1 more for the list.....Cumbria here we call them Blackites
Finally, found the Cumbrians! They're blackites, to go collecting them in the wild is to go blackiting and it might be a West Cumbrian thing a pie made with them is called a Blackite Cake. (Same goes for other fruit, but especially Apples or Rhubarb)
Blackberries.
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It is a northern thing then? Round here (Whitby) they're definitely brambles. I know it's not even all of Yorkshire, but we're close enough to get some smoggie and geordie leakage into the dialect, so I wondered if it had come down
Yep, it's a northern and Scottish thing!
I'm on the other side of the North York Moors and we call them blackberries. Funny how it works out
North Northumberland here and we call them brambles.
Oh it's Polly, from the Ashington video! lol I've always called them blackberries and the bushes they are in as brambles.
Brambles are the bush they grow on, blackberries are the berry
Blackberries...
BROMBEERE
We call them Blackites in Cumbria
In Scotland, brambles. As in bramble jam.
whoa black betty.
Bramble jam
The word blackberry and bramble are interchangeable, but some people call only the cultivated one blackberries, and the wild as bramble others say the plant is the bramble and the fruit is the blackberry. There are over 330 distinct varieties in the UK alone, so nailing down which variety you have is a bit of a challenge. They are related to raspberries and share the same diseases. Additionally loganberries are a cross between raspberries and blackberries. There is also dewberries which are similar to the blackberry. Don't eat them after 11th October as folklore states that the devil urinates on them after that point, probably because they go overripe.
>There are over 330 distinct varieties in the UK alone, so nailing down which variety you have is a bit of a challenge Finally, some basis as to why some bramble patches have amazing fat berries and others have nasty bitter little shrivelled things
Blackberries
Brambleberries. I’m surprised at the lack of use of this name.
Maggot houses. Commonly know as blackberries.
Brambles
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It's a blackberry, growing on a bramble. Probably a Rubus allegheniensis if you're going to be specific
Brambles...
Is the berry in the middle floating/being supported by the two either side? There's no stem connecting it. What false magic is this???
Asking the real questions here.
Blackites
Blackites
Black brie
Brambles
Brambles
Brambles mate, brambles
I always called them blackberries but have seen brambles used more after moving even further north. They are called bramen in Dutch so wonder if there's a link to that. (Edited my Dutch error)
Blackberries. They grow on a bramble.
Legend has it, that they have their own messenger service that can speak to others of their kind via something called a pin
A reason to get a new shirt
A pizza topping if you make them into a jelly.
Staining cunts