Chilblains are the itch red blobs that appear on your fingers after you have been out having snowball fights with your mates. Not quite frostbite, but getting there.
I suspect they're still around, FB, but going by a different name. Much as I love most all fruits, I get canker sores on my tongue if I eat too much. Life is just NOT fair!
As a child I (and maybe half a dozen others!) scrumped rhubarb from the farmers field near home. It was under-ripe, green and sour and we all "suffered the consequences" during the night! I never scrumped anything else! Kind regards, Marj
@PutterDutt - Google says scrumped means to steal directly from the tree, so they were probably very good, as they were much fresher than anything you'll see is a grocery store. :)
The apples I like best are called "Firikia" and belong to a variety of miniature apples of the species Malus domestica Borkh. They are natives of Asia and Europe, where they had been growing for thousands of years, and were introduced to the other continents by European colonists. These apples are really small but have sweet taste and beautiful aroma.
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