I remember my Grandmother having Gooseberry in her garden and joking that they would get her in more trouble than the still she ran on her property.
I remember my Grandmother having Gooseberry in her garden and joking that they would get her in more trouble than the still she ran on her property.
Can someone tell me why so I don’t have to watch the video?
TLDW: A fungus called “white pine blister rust” can only pollinate in the presence of white pine trees and “ribes” (pronounced rye-bees), which is what currants and gooseberries are. The lumber was deemed far more valuable so in order to save it from the spread of the fungus, cultivation of ribes was outlawed and the US Government enacted a large scale eradication.
So that’s why it’s called Ribena! Ribena is a blackcurrant juice that’s commonly sold in the UK.
Thank you. And TIL why ribeana is called ribeana.
It seems mad to me that the US essentially banned a food group so they could make money by cutting down trees. Why didn’t they follow the lead of Europe and just focus on reforestation and breading genetically immune pine trees?
Disease