Blackberries at Thanksgiving

Q: The Board,

Did they have black berries at the first Thanksgiving feast? I have since discovered how good those things are, have you tried them before?


A: Dear Noname,

The first Thanksgiving feast was held in October of 1621. Blackberries grow in the summer, not the fall. In the UK, there's a superstition that you shouldn't eat blackberries after September 15th, because the devil has supposedly corrupted them by then. I'm sure the devil has better things to do than corrupting blackberries, but because of the change in weather, the berries usually start to mold around then anyway, and eating them much later than that isn't really good for your health. Furthermore, the Pilgrims were pretty superstitious people, especially where the devil is concerned, so they wouldn't have taken any chances.

I agree with you, though. Blackberries are stupendous!

-Fiddlesticks the Defenestrator


Dear Question Mark,

You've discovered blackberries since then, have you? Well, I'm glad you hadn't discovered blackberries before then. That would make you HOW old???

And I prefer strawberries, but blackberries are okay too. I bet the Pilgrims had them, but not in late fall, which was when the feast was.

-Hi


Dear Black berry lover,

Blackberries are nasty. So are Pilgrims. They deserve each other.

-Apathetic