Tinned Loganberries

[EssexSue]

I'm sure we had loganberries growing at the end of the garden when I was a child.

[Mr Tom Morrow]

Originally Posted by EssexSue

I'm sure we had loganberries growing at the end of the garden when I was a child.

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My Dad had an allotment and he had loganberries trained onto wires the width of the plot.

All the old timers thought he was nuts not growing huge cabbages and spuds. Instead he had rows of raspberries, blackcurrant and gooseberry bushes, rhubarb crowns and tons of flowers.
All the stuff that was more expensive to buy. Good economics.

[EssexSue]

I wonder why they don't still grow wild like blackberries, raspberries etc? I wonder if a blight or something took them?

[Mr Tom Morrow]

Originally Posted by EssexSue

I wonder why they don't still grow wild like blackberries, raspberries etc? I wonder if a blight or something took them?

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I don't know. However are they a hybrid type thing and not a natural 'plant'?

Maybe they need to be propogated from the rootstock and with less and less of them they have now gone. Interesting question.

[EssexSue]

I'd forgotten they ever existed but I've now remembered how much I liked them.

[goodevans]

Thanks everyone for the replies

Glad to see that I am not the only one with fond memories of the juicy syrupy sweetness of canned Loganberries ... looks like they have gone forever then

Lovely with Carnation milk or turned into a mousse

Tom ... I remember Victor Value well
Yes in those days tinned fruit was considered a very tropical treat for us
In fact my dear mum bought so many cans of tinned peaches for us that it put me off them for life... can't bear the things even now

We also got married in 1983 and I'm sure they were still being eaten by us then too.
Funny how these have just slipped off the radar when a lot of us liked them so much !
Holidaysaver mentioned growing them but I think they are very invasive and have a poor yield ...maybe that was the reason for their demise commercially ?

Lingonberries are definitely not the same thing ...unfortunately ...got my hopes up there with an Ikea round the corner .

Wonder if these are available elsewhere in the world or are the purely a British fruit ?

[stevo25]

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[Silvercat]

Originally Posted by Mr Tom Morrow

As above.

Lingonberry

Loganberry.

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Oh wow, our next door neighbour's used to have what I thought was a raspberry bush crammed up against the open-mesh fence between our back gardens, and last year I "accidentally" scrumped tons of these that had leaned over to our side of the fence. I mixed them in with our own raspberries and froze them. However, looking at your pictures, they must have been loganberries because I remember thinking, "these raspberries are a bit of an odd shape, but they taste lovely!" I think the bushes died down though, I can't see them any more.

Originally Posted by ERICSMUM

In the back of my mind I have a vague idea that loganberries are like a cross between blackberries and raspberries.

I loved tinned fruit salad but we all fought for the single piece of cherry in each tin !

Served with Carnation milk.

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This made me laugh out loud! There was indeed only ever one single piece of cherry in each tin, and with 3 kids my mum had a right fight on her hands! Definitely with Carnation milk, Sunday night after tea (which was usually toast with dripping from the lunchtime roast). Takes me back!

Funnily enough, I was in a supermarket yesterday briefly, and happened to walk down the tinned fruit aisle. Thinking back now, I remember being mildly surprised at the very small display of tins for sale - maybe with fresh fruit being cheaper and more readily available now than in the 1960s and 1970s, there is less demand these days for tinned.

Oh - lychees! I just remembered! My mum used to occasionally buy us tinned lychees - yuk! They tasted like almonds and looked like eyeballs, I hated their slippery and slightly gritty texture!

[EssexSue]

I love these threads.
Can I go off topic and ask if anyone else remembers Panyan pickle. It was a bit like Branston. I couldn't remember what it was called for ages then it came to me on the plane when I got my cheese and tomato chutney sandwich. Random eh?

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My great-grandpa used to grow them, I miss his loganberry patch almost as much as I miss him