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Boundary Waters Quetico Forum Listening Point - General Discussion A cookie with "BW blueberries" |
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12/02/2017 10:00AM
Without the words “Canoe Area Wilderness” added an irrigation ditch between two fields could be considered Bounday Waters and qualify as truthful advertising.
I don’t think you could sell blueberries that were picked there either.
I would like to try one to see if it would be as bad as I re-imagined it would be.
I don’t think you could sell blueberries that were picked there either.
I would like to try one to see if it would be as bad as I re-imagined it would be.
12/02/2017 06:59PM
quote OneMatch: "Friend of mine saw this in New York City of all places. I have a feeling the berries in this were not harvested in the BW.
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If Boundary Waters Blueberries are in the product, the Forest Service determined that it cannot be sold.
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12/03/2017 06:24AM
quote The Great Outdoors: "quote OneMatch: "Friend of mine saw this in New York City of all places. I have a feeling the berries in this were not harvested in the BW.
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If Boundary Waters Blueberries are in the product, the Forest Service determined that it cannot be sold."
Well. . .there is a difference between BWCA "Boundary Waters" and the generic term "Boundary Waters", as I am sure you know. Many years ago the Dayton-Hudson Company in Detroit sold a whole line of "Boundary Waters" products in their stores (I am pretty sure referring to the Great Lakes Area) and we still have a pair of beautiful beach towels that my mother proudly gave us one year for Christmas. They had nothing to do with the BWCA, but they were a neat Christmas gift. I am sure any blueberries harvested in the area near the US-Canadian border are often called Boundary Waters Blueberries by many folks. Just sayin'.
12/03/2017 09:56AM
quote Spartan2: "quote The Great Outdoors: "quote OneMatch: "Friend of mine saw this in New York City of all places. I have a feeling the berries in this were not harvested in the BW.
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If Boundary Waters Blueberries are in the product, the Forest Service determined that it cannot be sold."
Well. . .there is a difference between BWCA "Boundary Waters" and the generic term "Boundary Waters", as I am sure you know. Many years ago the Dayton-Hudson Company in Detroit sold a whole line of "Boundary Waters" products in their stores (I am pretty sure referring to the Great Lakes Area) and we still have a pair of beautiful beach towels that my mother proudly gave us one year for Christmas. They had nothing to do with the BWCA, but they were a neat Christmas gift. I am sure any blueberries harvested in the area near the US-Canadian border are often called Boundary Waters Blueberries by many folks. Just sayin'."
I'm sure there is, but marketing ploys use many different ideas (insinuations) to label a product that indicate it may be something it is not.
If they're from Minneapolis as PaddlinMadeline suggest in a post, I'm quite sure it isn't referring to anything other than the BWCA.
Just informing some who may not be aware that "IF" they are from the BWCA (which I doubt) they are not legal to sell!
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12/03/2017 10:44AM
I'm guessing they're Maine blueberries, since we're the largest producer of wild blueberries in the world. They're so abundant here that the vast majority of them go unpicked. They're just about everywhere it's sunny.
I will paddle eternal, Kevlar and carbon.
12/03/2017 12:28PM
Oh, for Pete's sake! If you go to the website and follow the links, you will see that the company is a kitchen industry started by a woman in Minneapolis to support her daughter who was a student at U of Minnesota. Of course I do not know where she originally picked her blueberries, and she may, indeed, order them from Maine. Or she may go up to the Gunflint Trail and pick them along the roadside. I firmly doubt that she goes out in a canoe and picks them within the BWCA. . .and I think she probably took some poetic license in calling them Boundary Waters Blueberries.
I am not sure that the actual title "Boundary Waters" by itself, without the designation BWCA or BWCAW, is copyrighted, so unless she went into the park every time she picked a blueberry, they are almost certainly not illegal to sell.
You could probably contact her and find out where she sources her blueberries. Her information is in her blog, which is accessible through the links on the website. Personally, I don't really care that much. I thought if they were actually gluten-free (and not just wheat-free, as the label indicates) that i might try ordering some for my daughter who has celiac disease, but they are probably pretty pricey, and I am losing interest after all of this discussion about the blueberries. ;-)
I am not sure that the actual title "Boundary Waters" by itself, without the designation BWCA or BWCAW, is copyrighted, so unless she went into the park every time she picked a blueberry, they are almost certainly not illegal to sell.
You could probably contact her and find out where she sources her blueberries. Her information is in her blog, which is accessible through the links on the website. Personally, I don't really care that much. I thought if they were actually gluten-free (and not just wheat-free, as the label indicates) that i might try ordering some for my daughter who has celiac disease, but they are probably pretty pricey, and I am losing interest after all of this discussion about the blueberries. ;-)
12/03/2017 03:07PM
quote PaddlinMadeline: "I bet they are made from BW blueberrys given the huge window they are available. Is Blue Moon beer really made from pieces of moon?"
Once in a Blue Moon it was ;-)
May the rivers be crooked and winding, and your portages lonesome, leading to the most amazing view.
12/03/2017 04:06PM
quote missmolly: "I'm guessing they're Maine blueberries, since we're the largest producer of wild blueberries in the world. They're so abundant here that the vast majority of them go unpicked. They're just about everywhere it's sunny. "
Well start picking and bring us all some. You probably get a little more moisture there even for wild ones?
12/03/2017 04:41PM
quote Pinetree: "quote missmolly: "I'm guessing they're Maine blueberries, since we're the largest producer of wild blueberries in the world. They're so abundant here that the vast majority of them go unpicked. They're just about everywhere it's sunny. "
Well start picking and bring us all some. You probably get a little more moisture there even for wild ones?"
Come visit and pick all you want for free. There are literally fields and fields that go unpicked. Here's one of those fields, which are still red in December, but not with the same shine.
I will paddle eternal, Kevlar and carbon.
12/03/2017 04:48PM
quote missmolly: "quote Pinetree: "quote missmolly: "I'm guessing they're Maine blueberries, since we're the largest producer of wild blueberries in the world. They're so abundant here that the vast majority of them go unpicked. They're just about everywhere it's sunny. "
Well start picking and bring us all some. You probably get a little more moisture there even for wild ones?"
Come visit and pick all you want for free. There are literally fields and fields that go unpicked. Here's one of those fields, which are still red in December, but not with the same shine.
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Is that Wild blueberries or commercial grown? Looks like quite a field out in the open. I assume wild? Looks like a bear could get Fat there or me.
12/03/2017 07:11PM
quote Pinetree: "quote missmolly: "quote Pinetree: "quote missmolly: "I'm guessing they're Maine blueberries, since we're the largest producer of wild blueberries in the world. They're so abundant here that the vast majority of them go unpicked. They're just about everywhere it's sunny. "
Well start picking and bring us all some. You probably get a little more moisture there even for wild ones?"
Come visit and pick all you want for free. There are literally fields and fields that go unpicked. Here's one of those fields, which are still red in December, but not with the same shine.
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Is that Wild blueberries or commercial grown? Looks like quite a field out in the open. I assume wild? Looks like a bear could get Fat there or me."
Wild. It goes unpicked. I have never seen a single person picking it.
I will paddle eternal, Kevlar and carbon.
12/04/2017 08:14AM
quote OneMatch: "Yet another reason to go to Maine and visit Miss Molly!
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You're welcome anytime. Frankly, blueberries grow here like crabgrass grows in other places. If there's sun, there are blueberries.
I will paddle eternal, Kevlar and carbon.
12/04/2017 08:43AM
I had one of the cookies while attending some meetings at Midwest Mtn. Expo. It was a very tasty cookie, substantial, and didn't have that fake taste so many "sports" bars have. There was a little too much coconut milk used, but overall I would get a couple for a trip.
"It is more important to live for the possibilities that lie ahead than to die in despair over what has been lost." -Barry Lopez
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