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The gooseberry appreciation society.

 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
01:20 / 02.06.03
Two gooseberry haiku.

I

Gooseberries bristle
Jade-colour'd and translucent
A light fuzz greets touch.

II

Tart flavours, secret.
Custard needs sour fruity tang.
Crumble soaks up juice.


How will you show your gooseberry appreciation?
 
 
sleazenation
08:40 / 02.06.03
By eating them?
 
 
Bill Posters
09:50 / 02.06.03
thanx, MC, those are lovely.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
10:58 / 02.06.03
There is an old fruit, very furry,
That's as green as a Thai Chicken Curry
Its savour has bite
But I think they're shite
And they may cause intestinal hurry

Well, I'm bored and loafing around in an airport. Not the ideal environment for poetic history to be made. I approve of gooseberries in theory, so long as they're well stewed and drowned in coagulant custard.
 
 
captain piss
12:05 / 02.06.03
My family definitely have a taste for them. I've even been entrusted to stand guard over gooseberry bushes outside my parents house, armed with bug killer - in the event of the sudden appearance of a fearsome Scottish caterpillar thingy that traditionally appears and strips these gooseberry bushes virtually in minutes (just realised this post makes me soundlike I'm about 15, when I'm in fact - 29!)
 
 
Bill Posters
12:09 / 02.06.03
I have no appreciation for gooseberries, but i can show my appreciation for the poetry above:


Twenty-first century haiku
Bitter, hairy fruit
Cherry blossom nowhere.
 
 
Olulabelle
12:38 / 02.06.03
I am very bad
At meaningful fruit Haiku
Here, have this instead.
 
 
grant
19:15 / 02.06.03
South African gooseberries (Cape gooseberries) are milder & far superior to the European/British kind. Oh yes, yes, they are.

Koo.

Hie thee to the import market and buy a can of Koo preserves.

Your preconceptions will melt like April snow.
 
 
Ellis says:
19:23 / 02.06.03
Making love, slowly
To gooseberry, slow and deep
I thrust into night
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
19:32 / 02.06.03
Pffft, Grant, physalis and gooseberries are not the same beast at all. Gooseberries are clearly far superior - would you ever think of adulterating a goosegog by dunking it in chocolate and presenting it to your guests as a charming dessert item? You would not. The gooseberry is a robust article and should be treated with proper respect, i.e. by making it into a fool or, at a pinch, a crumble. Gooseberry jam is also very right and proper. I like to eat them on their own when they're green and tart, and burn my tongue on them, but you could wait until they get golden and bursting if you're a wimp and prefer your fruit to be, you know, ripe.