“People love suggesting literally everything else except for just turning a bunch of hungry hippies loose. That's what I want to do with Japanese knotweed too. Just be like, have you just told your 10 crunchiest friends that this is edible?”

dunking here in your Western service berry species. It's a pivot. Listen, it's okay because you guys have like a million other delicious berries that can like easily take their place. The birds couldn't have the service berries. I did used to get very confused when followers from the western side of the country would be like, you keep going on and on about these amalankier species. And I ate one and it was fine. And before I had done extensive foraging on this side of the country, I was just like, well, I guess this person's dumb. Wow. You know, and that's okay. And then I was hiking in Glacier last year and I came across a wild service berry. I was like, oh, what a mitzvah. This is so exciting. A service berry. Yum. And y'all, it was just okay. I mean, thank goodness I never responded to that person. A couple of years back, because I would have gone to find it. It would have eaten me alive. It would have kept me up at night. But you guys also have like huckleberries out the wazoo. That's very nice. We love that. We have one huckleberry species in Ohio, and no one's ever heard of it, even though its genus name is Gay Lusatia. That's amazing. Come on, Ohio, get it together. You guys also have, in my opinion, the best kept secret in the Pacific Northwest, which is thimbleberries. Once on the internet, someone tried to tell me thimbleberries are like mealy and gross, and now I know they were just trying to hoard all of the thimbleberries. You will not fool me. I am goofy enough to try every edible thing once. Thimbleberries are so good. I get why the bears are filling up on them during the summertime. The only time I've ever seen a grizzly bear was when I was gathering thimbleberries. And I looked up and I was like, ooh, he's also gathering thimbleberries. Easy come, easy go. And then I just like faded back into the foliage like Homer Simpson in that gift. Just the delicious scourge that is the Himalayan blackberry. Yes, yes. Tough because bad, but also tasty. Maybe eat into submission. People love suggesting literally everything else except for just like turning a bunch of hungry hippies loose. Like that's what I want to do with Japanese knotweed too. Just be like, have you just told your 10 crunchiest friends that this is edible?