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[–]IrishB_Cubed 29ポイント30ポイント  (5子コメント)

Poland loves them some blueberries, should be the national fruit, kurwa!

[–]HopelessMann 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

more like the apple. Poland now produces more apple then China, and most in the world.

[–]Malzair 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

And they're cheap as fuck.

Then again it was Poland, all groceries were cheap as fuck.

[–]CurtisLeow -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

Poland farmers stronk!

[–]waffanculo 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

National fruit is potato, zajabische!

[–]iamaManBearPig 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Interesting facts from some quick research:

  • There are over 400 species of blueberries.

  • Most species are from cold and temperate climates. Although there are a few tropical blueberry species.

  • The commercially grown blueberries we all eat are a species native to the USA.

  • The first commercial blueberry crops in Europe didn't appear until the early 1930s.

  • Apparently commercial crops in Poland had a hard time getting off the ground.

  • It wasn't until the late 70s-early 80s that Polish farmers figured out how to properly grow blueberries in Poland at a commercial scale.

[–]studmuffffffin 8ポイント9ポイント  (6子コメント)

Cool how you can see the country borders.

[–]amtoastintolerant 7ポイント8ポイント  (5子コメント)

I'm like 95% sure this has to be some sort of data mistake

[–]Cortical 8ポイント9ポイント  (4子コメント)

definitely a data mistake / missing data.

I found this document, which has detailed data on per-country production (and in NA per state/province).

According to the document, BC is the largest producer in North America, but is blank on the map. In South America, Chile produces more than BC, and is blank.

In Europe, Germany produces a significant amount (albeit less than Poland) and is blank on the map, same goes for Spain.

Australia and NZ produce not-insignificant amounts of blueberries too, and are blank on the map, etc.

[–]rattleandhum 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

I was going to say I have eaten many Chilean blueberries, as well as ones from South Africa and Spain

[–]Paradigm240 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

ones from South Africa

I was going to say, I've definitely seen "Product of South Africa" on punnets of blueberries here.

[–]Kookereekoo 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Pretty the only blueberries I see here in the Netherlands are Chilean or Moroccan. Sometimes Polish, but not often

[–]Swedish_Viking_ 28ポイント29ポイント  (18子コメント)

Wait what? There's blueberries everywhere in Swedish forests.

[–]bennedictus 27ポイント28ポイント  (0子コメント)

This is probably referring to farms, not wild blueberries.

[–]FryWin 13ポイント14ポイント  (16子コメント)

Those "European blueberries" are actually bilberries, or Vaccinium myrtillus and have purple flesh and therefore not North-American blueberries which have white or translucent flesh.

[–]pmst 8ポイント9ポイント  (1子コメント)

The title should really specify that they're American blueberries.

[–]looooongtimelurker 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah, I guess arandanos from South America don't count either, although they taste quite similar.

[–]HellonStilts 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

white or translucent flesh

wat

[–]FryWin 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Just copied that straight from wikipedia. Also found this.

[–]PisseGuri82 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

What? American blueberries are white inside? That's insane.

[–]Saotik -4ポイント-3ポイント  (10子コメント)

And bilberries taste way better than American blueberries...

Edit: Please note, I am not disparaging America. I am just stating my preference in closely-related varieties of berries...

[–]Bort39 3ポイント4ポイント  (8子コメント)

Poland disagrees since they mainly produce the American version. Plus I doubt you have had tried both before.

[–]Saotik -3ポイント-2ポイント  (7子コメント)

I can assure you I have. We have loads of bilberry (mustikka) in Finland where I live now, and all the American blueberries I've had have been bland and mealy in comparison.

[–]Bort39 -2ポイント-1ポイント  (6子コメント)

Maybe you confused them with bilberries because they look nearly the same.

[–]Saotik -2ポイント-1ポイント  (5子コメント)

I've had blueberries in America, I've had blueberries in Finland, I've had bilberries in Finland. I've lived in a number of countries apart from the one I'm in right now.

I know what the difference is and what I prefer. I'm somewhat surprised this is hard for you to believe...

[–]Bort39 0ポイント1ポイント  (4子コメント)

Because of your post history gives you little to no credibility. You post on /r/shitamericanssay and post a lot of anti American posts. So just for the sake of the blueberry coming from America you would automatically spew out that they are some how inferior in taste.

[–]Saotik 0ポイント1ポイント  (3子コメント)

Seriously?

You go back several pages in my post history to discover that I have posted in SAS (where I most recently pointed out that the particular idiots under discussion appeared to be Czech, not American), claim I post "a lot of anti American posts" and this somehow has a bearing on my opinion on berries?

Can't I just like some berries more than others without you going all McCarthy on me?

[–]Bort39 -2ポイント-1ポイント  (2子コメント)

Berries are serious business if you didn't know.

[–]18shookg 6ポイント7ポイント  (4子コメント)

Weird that blueberry crops stop at the Canada border in the US and the German border in Poland.

[–]The_logs 6ポイント7ポイント  (2子コメント)

and the dutch border with belgium and germany

[–]NloadN 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

Well the germans and Belgians obviously can't have our precious blueberries.

[–]holytriplem 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Might be to do with either how the data is obtained or how each country spends its farming subsidies.

[–]iamaManBearPig 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

The map is clearly about blueberry crops.

[–]KaptainKielbasa 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

Blueberry Pierogi so good

[–]mooselmo 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

Well, with all due respect to OP, Maine produces 25% of all North American blueberries. I would like to see if this is a specific type of blueberry, or if the map is just inaccurate.

[–]Kookereekoo 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm pretty sure OP didn't make this map, but you're right that this map isn't entirely correct.

[–]walkalong 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Perhaps that 25% figure is for wild blueberries?

[–]geospaz 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

odd, how national borders seem to affect blueberrying (Poland, USA)...also, odd that none show in Alaska, I saw wild ones everywhere ther...does this map strictly show cultivation?

[–]Kookereekoo 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Pretty sure this map is backed by insufficient data

[–]Yearlaren 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I should move to Poland or South Korea...

[–]sirkadyen 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Turkey have areas that blueberries can grow ? Interesting, no one here knows what a blueberry is except some small regions in the northeastern parts.

[–]Svartvann 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I was not aware that what we call Blåbær/Blueberry in Norway is Bilberries in English. This explains why the blueberries on sale in stores (often imported from poland), are so much uglier in taste than what I pick out in nature.

[–]prehensilefoot 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Welp, there's Poland.

[–]3kixintehead 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Why do Germans hate blueberries?

[–]Henryhashbrown-2000 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm from a spot in Minnesota, a white spot, that has a shit load of blueberries. I could probly go chuck a rock through the woods out back and hit a bush.

[–]Yilku1 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Rzeczpospolita stronk!

[–]Kasufert 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

polan can into bluberi

[–]ghostofpennwast 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Tupac is still farming bluberi in polan

[–]GrandDukeOfNowhere -1ポイント0ポイント  (2子コメント)

technically if they're from Europe they're bilberries, blueberries come from America

[–]FryWin 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

Actually the term 'bilberry' refers to vaccinium myrtillus, a species that is almost identical to highbush blueberry but is not considered blueberry. There are also "actual" blueberries in Europe which where introduced in 1930's.

[–]Ramalkin 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Those are on the farms not in the forests.

[–]Rubiego -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

Fuckin' Polan