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To: Gauguin who wrote (34600)	8/10/1999 5:51:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

They'll be in there for ages. Forever, maybe. I'll finally get mad and eat them someday This is one of the great mysteries of man. WHy do we freeze these things so that we can enjoy them in the off-season and then never use them? Is it the knowledge that they are irreplaceable- at least that day? Do we fear that all known species of berries might catch a virus or whatever diseases fruits catch, and BE FOREVER DESTROYED. SO that might be the last berry we'll ever eat sitting in our freezer. This means that the occasion must be very special. Just throwing them into a breakfast shake is not really honoring them as they should be honored for being the last berries on Earth. Or is it just that we enjoy looking in our freezer and thinking, Ah, yes, there they are. The berries. I can have these berries anytime I want. I am wealthy with berries. And so we can't use them or we lose that wonderful security of knowing that whatever else befalls us, we still have our berries. I dunno. And it will be even harder to make yourself eat a berry that you've measured and named. But you're going to need another freezer for berries that big, maybe a separate freezer for every berry; berries that size have egos to match. THey won't want to share dressing rooms. When you have people to dinner, they'll ask, 'What's for dessert?" and you'll say, savoring the moment, "We're having a raspberry."

To: Gauguin who wrote (34600)	8/10/1999 6:24:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Neat find. My granny had raspberry bushes. Red and black. No, not blackberry bushes. They picked like raspberries. I liked the black best because they were ripe. Grab a red one and it might be an unripened black one. Of course I was 10 at the time. She also had a patch of baby watermelons. And a grape arbor. And a charge account at the drug store where they served a hamburger and a milk shake glass full of Coke for 35 cents. Life was good in the town of 300 in the 50s.