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a sour little bog grenade that tricks Thanksgiving into thinking it tastes like dessert.
means A small, tart red berry that grows in boggy wetlands, famously cooked into a sauce or jelly served alongside roast turkey.
from From the German-Dutch settlers' "kraanbere," literally "crane-berry" — likely because the plant's drooping pink flower, with its slender stem and beaked petals, reminded somebody of a crane's head and neck. English colonists in North America borrowed the name for the native bog berry, and "craneberry" softened over time into "cranberry."
- bounce test
- Ripe berries bounce; growers sort them like rubber balls.
- trapped air
- Four air pockets let them float for flooded harvests.
- native americans
- Used them in pemmican centuries before pilgrims arrived.
- long shelf life
- Whole berries keep for months without spoiling.
ocean spray cooperative — largest cranberry producer in north america, founded 1930, operates in massachusetts, wisconsin, and other states
thanksgiving cranberry sauce — traditional dish served at 89% of american thanksgiving meals according to pew research surveys
cape cod cranberry bogs — historical wetland farms in massachusetts, site of first large-scale commercial cranberry cultivation in 1840s