Can someone please explain the deal with huckleberries?

[April]

Is it an obscure southern reference? I don't get it. I've seen them mentioned around here at Lit a couple times, and now the phrase "I'll be your huckleberry" is in a song.

I can understand being someone's sex toy for a day, but huckleberry?

 

[brokenbrainwave]

noo its suckleberries, like the young lady that used to work for me. she said she wanted to suckle my berries...but I wasnt supposed to hear that.

 

[April]

*smacks the penguin*

 

[brokenbrainwave]

*smacks the penguin*

foreplay? hell I dont even know ya! LOL

 

[April]

LMAO



I'm serious about the berry thing. I wanna know.

 

[TWB]

Dingleberries??

 

[deliciously_naughty]

well, there was huckleberry hound...does he count?

 

[Guest]

 

[DustyWolfe]

Mkay

Huckleberries are a cross between a blueberry and a blackberry. They have a very sweet flavor and are used to make bonbons, pies, and jams.

I'm not sure what the reference in the song is...

*finishes eating her bagel with huckleberry jam on it*

 

[deliciously_naughty]

yay! an answer! So where does one procure a huckleberry? Do you have to live in the south?

 

[weed]

I believe their grown in the northwest and midwest.

 

[DustyWolfe]

yay! an answer! So where does one procure a huckleberry? Do you have to live in the south?

The only place I have seen them is in Missouri (go figure) I first tried them in Hannibal lol... You can buy huckleberries, huckleberry candy, jams, everything all over thes state. It's really a very tasty fruit.

 

[deliciously_naughty]

that kills the odds of my getting any as I live in nyc and am from boston. Northeastern girl all the way. Maybe someday when I venture forth (and not just to new orleans)

 

[Guest]

 

[Mischka]

From the websites I've found, it doesn't look like huckleberries are limited to the South:

Cape Cod

Washington State

Rocky Mountains

Looks like they can't be commercially grown, hence why they're so hard to find.

 

[DustyWolfe]

Actually, you can order the jams and jellies from several places online. I need to do that myself as my supply has dwindled lol.

Huckleberry Jelly

 

[deliciously_naughty]

cape cod, huh?

And I grew up in Massachusetts.

Oh my god...I never knew it until now but...


I HAD A DEPRIVED CHILDHOOD

WHAAAAAA


somebody hold me

 

[TWB]

That's not even what she is looking for... cause they are something I call that is locate around the bottom that isn't very nice. Try again!

Good. They don't taste very good.

 

[Bigdog]

April

The phrase "I'll be your huckleberry" or something similar is a line used by Doc Holliday (played by Val Kilmer) in the movie Tombstone .

Get thee to a video store, my dear.

 

[Parklife]

From : http://www.beavsden.com/napalousa/huckle.html

Stuffy Victorians and Slang
Okay now you're thinking, '19th century people used slang? Get out of here.' Well yeah. They did and a particularly popular little phrase was (yep wait for it, drum roll) Huckleberry. It was used in just about everything and anything. It was particularly fashionable around the back end of the last century. People used it as a compliment e.g as a replacement for 'sweetness' or 'darling'. Or just to describe someone who was really the best. 'A true huckleberry'.

It was also used in some gambling circles. This is where Doc comes in. You could 'bet a huckleberry to a persimmon' Which would mean to place a small bet.

 

[April]

Thank you Bigdog and Parklife.

I'll see about renting Tombstone.

 

[lilminx]

Actually, you can order the jams and jellies from several places online. I need to do that myself as my supply has dwindled lol.

Huckleberry Jelly

Hmmm... I might have to get some, just to try it. I love jam.

 

[DustyWolfe]

Hmmm... I might have to get some, just to try it. I love jam.

It's really sweet and quite yummy

 

[junglejim6969]

Is it an obscure southern reference? I don't get it. I've seen them mentioned around here at Lit a couple times, and now the phrase "I'll be your huckleberry" is in a song.

I can understand being someone's sex toy for a day, but huckleberry?

"I'll be your huckleberry" is the line used by Doc Holiday in the move "Tombstone" right before he shot Johnny Ringo..........