This is getting wildly off topic, but blackcurrant is an interesting story. Commercial blackcurrant production was actually banned in the US for between 50 and

This is getting wildly off topic, but blackcurrant is an interesting story. Commercial blackcurrant production was actually banned in the US for between 50 and 100 years, depending on the state. That means it's basically an unknown fruit in the US today. It was banned because it is a carrier of a disease which was destroying a species of pine tree which is important to the US lumber industry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackcurrant_production_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackcurrant_production_in_the... Quote from the article: "Marvin Pritts, a professor of horticulture at Cornell University, asserts that less than 0.1% of Americans have likely ever eaten a blackcurrant."