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Service is Just a Tree in Europe
There is a tree in the apple tribe and subtribe that is called the service tree. The name has an etymology that has nothing to do with the other word of the same spelling. The Latin name is “sorbus,” and the binomial is Sorbus domestica.
It produces a fruit called the sorb, and it has often been used in making fruit wine and brandies. It is not the most common fruit out there, and perhaps it has been lost to us against its more popular cousins, the apples and pears.
Have any of you had sorbs? Have you had some product of it, such as sorb wine or brandy or jam?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWXw8hZHKsE
Hey man! Where’d you find that video???
I’ll just say, I was a different guy before I came here…
I like peanut butter.
I like toast and sorb jam.
That’s what my baby feeds me.
I’m her loving man.
It’s definitely good to have you back around here, Michael.
I have a shipova. a sorbus pear cross. It tastes pretty much like a pear. The tree is a poor producer relative to my other fruit trees. The fruit is soft and doesn’t keep well. I would not recommend it.
The place I bought it (see above link) sells many varieties of exotic fruit plants and trees. Many are from eastern Europe and Asia. I bought four or five varieties before I discovered that they are exotic in the US because they aren’t very good. I think the folks who live in the places the varieties are from eat them because they don’t have anything better.
The serviceberry that grows in the Pacific Northwest is the Amelanchier alnifolia. The fruit is edible, but too small and sparse to do much with. I have had jelly made of Canadian serviceberry, which is good.
There are two species of Sorbus that grow in the Cascade Mountains. They are similar to eastern varieties, but tend to be shrubby and short, reaching maximum height of 12 feet.
If you listen to old time radio with ads, you are likely to run across Del Monte telling women that Del Monte ketchup was sweetened with pineapple and just the thing to make cheap meat delicious (think post WWII).
Not the Hollywood Will Smith. The Applesauce Will Smith.
That’s funny, she doesn’t look Wendish.
I’m going to assume someone already asked if his wife was Granny Smith?
Yes, and she would invariably explain that the “real” Granny Smith was in Australia.