99.9% of Americans have never tasted a Blackcurrant or Gooseberry. For nearly a century, the US government conducted a war on currants and gooseberries. The History Guy YT - eviltoast
The US War on Currants and Gooseberries
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Marvin Pitts, a professor of horticulture at Cornell University, estimates that 99.9% of Americans have never tasted a blackcurrant. The reason? For nearly...

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.