CLOUDBERRY : My Hunt For One Of The World's Most Elusive Fruits - Weird Fruit Explorer 

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My man went looking for cloudberries and found himself

Maybe the real cloudberry was the friends we made along the way just want to clear something up, this isn't a reference to any show, it's just a saying that I changed to make a joke about the video.

He's obsessed with cloudberries because he knows they increase all of your max stats

In Norway, you can find them in swamps and generally damp areas. They're not that rare but still most people will never tell you where they pick theirs so that no one else knows their "secret" cloudberry spot.

"I don't want my first taste of Cloudberry to be all mushy" *proceeds to consume Cloudberry jam*

this guy is literally a pokemon collecter in the real world, he's literally collecting wild fruits from around the world like a pokemon collector, cloudberry just sounds like something from pokemon

It’s so funny to see this video as a norwegian. My grandparents pick cloudberries every year and when they get too old to I’m definitely going to take up that tradition for myself. It’s not as available as other berries like blueberries and rasberries, but still something I’m used to getting every year. In our family (and many other norwegian families) it’s a part of a traditional dessert we often have at christmas. I do treasure them over all other berries, but it never occured to me it would be this rare in the rest of the world.

You’re telling me such a rare fruit grows in the small turd island I live in

When grandpa brought those from the forest: "These suck, why couldn't you bring raspberries?" American: flies across the world to grab a few of those

Always forage yourself in Norway, Sweden & Finland. It is super expensive to buy mushrooms and berries that has been picked by others.

Being eaten alive by mosquitos is part of the true cloudberry hunting experience.

Imagine he eats all the fruit that is known to man and on the last 1 he gets an achievement

Cloudberry: "One Of The World's Most Elusive Fruits" Me: looks in grandma's freezer Freezer: Do you want cloudberry or cloudberry? Being swedish/scandinavian has it's perks

Cloud berries are very fragile, so just because they look mushy doesn't mean they are bad. They can still taste great

I picked cloud berries with an Inuit mother and son at the top of Canada in a tiny town called Tuktoyaktuk. We ate them with powdered milk and sugar- and it was absolutely awesome.

In summary: "Where can I find cloudberries? It's so hard! No, not that one. Not these either. Get that shizz away from me. Not even. Nope. Good yes, this one in the middle of this bog will be fine. It was ok I guess"

Love these really well written, in depth fruit documentaries. Well done!

You should write a book with all the fruit you've tried and their taste

I have to say, as a native Finn, it was a very interesting thing to see something as ordinary as cloudberry treated as an odd and exotic thing :D Yeah, sure, it's not something I'd have every day here either, and definitely more often as jam than fresh, but it doesn't really feel that rare. But I also think you did the right thing by trying to forage them! Yeah, if you just wanted to taste a berry, it was a waste of time (and to you probably also money), but just walking in the forest is a reward in itself. I rarely go intentionally to pick berries, although if I'm going to a forest in summertime when blueberries are ripe I might take a small box with me so I can pick what I come across, but I'm pretty sure that even the Finns who really intentionally go to pick berries for their own use really go because they enjoy spending time outdoors. Besides, a berry you picked by yourself is always going to taste better than store-bought, even if it's bitter and not quite ripe, just because it's something you did, yourself! Also, I would personally, if I went searching for cloudberries, rather look for the leaves first and only then see if there were any berries, bc otherwise you might miss berries that are covered or hidden by something in front of them, or you might look for them where there are no cloudberry plants. That's what my parents do, anyway (again, we don't really go out looking for berries but if we end up where we know something grows, we might see if we can find any). Also, congratulations. You, an American, have now travelled in Finland more than I, a Finn, ever have! I really want to go hiking in Lapland some day (I hear fall is really the best season for that, because there's less mosquitoes and other pesky insects than in summer, plus nature looks very gorgeous when everything is in its autumn colors, all yellow and orange and red), but it's far away and kinda expensive to go there, plus I don't really have supplies for proper hiking, couldn't set up a tent even if I had one, and I can't really make a fire so... for now it's just a dream

My father warned me when I was young: It is one thing to sleep with another man's wife. That can be excused. It is an entirely different thing, to pick the cloudberries on another man's property.

In Norwegian these berries are called “molter” I have these bad boys growing in my field that is 100m from my house. We usually pick about 5-7L of these and sell them for around 700 dollars.

In Sweden we call them "Forest gold".My favorite way to eat them is cold vanilla icecream with hot mashed cloudberries.

- youtube recommends this video to me - it seems really interesting - its half an hour long - there's 499 prior episodes Oh no Im going to lose *weeks* to this show, arent I?

“Maybe the real cloudberry was the friends we made along the way” Sun Tzu, Art of War

I can just imagine a border potrol in Finland asking him why do you come here for then he says berry's

Northern russia is full of cloudberries, I could never get over the fact that it tastes like an old peoples couch to me though

As an English non-native I must mention that this is one of the most foreigner-friendly, easy-to-listen narrations I’ve ever heard :) And the content is intriguing as well! Subscribed. Now I will spend my days binge watching videos about exotic fruits.

I lived in Alaska and every spring-summer I would pick blueberries and cloudberries not knowing what cloudberries wore

I know a berry maybe even more rare then cloudberries. They are called nagoon berries they have a lot in common with cloud berries but are a deep red-purple color.

They call them bake apples in Newfoundland after the French question: baie q’apelle? What berry is this? turned into bakeapple.

"It's addictive to find a place far from home, where something unfamiliar to me is just a part of life." As a Swede, yes, cloud berries are just a part of life.

The truffle of the fruit world! I'm gonna use that line promoting cloud berries to my friends. They taste so sweet and special, mango apricot vanilla, but i've never found them in large quantities.

If you ever visit Norway I know of several places in the forest right above my house where cloudberries grow like thick blankets of golden orange on the hillside. I also have arctic bramble/nagoonberry in the garden which I would mail for review, though I suspect they wouldn't survive the journey. They're pretty great, the taste is something between a wild strawberry and a raspberry. There's plenty of black crowberry around too, though you have to forage it, plus stone bramble, bog blueberry, hackberry, black currant and lingonberry. There's a lot of sea buckthorn growing at the end of two rivers here as well, if you ever want to try them fresh. I just planted three of those bushes in the garden this year.

Weird explorer: searches for cloudberries for a long time. Me: walks 10 meters from my front door and finds one. Thats Finland for yall. edit: Lmao

They're extremely easy to find them, just go to a plains biome and you'll literally harvest hundreds of them. Just watch out for Deathsquitoes

So, I didn't know that cloudberries exist, but I now know where you can get some in the US. There are some growing along the trail to Cascade Falls in Pembroke, VA. It is the trail to the left.

I grew up in Norway and didn't realize that cloudberries were rare until I noticed I didn't know what they were called in English a few years back. Cloudberry cream might be my favorite dessert ever, but they're also great with just regular vanilla ice cream.

Even more rare fruit would be mesimarja (Rubus arcticus, the Arctic bramble or Arctic raspberry). They are very hard to find and when you do, the yields are even lower than cloudberry. I have never actually tasted the arctic raspberry fresh but in syrups and jams it is incredibly tasty.

Made me so happy that you took the opportunity to explore cloudberries or as we call it in Sweden "The gold of the forrest". Actually I just came home from the forrest hunting for cloudberries, they are ripening in sweden now! Best time of the year!

Alright! 500! I'm almost done with all of them. Took a while but a pleasant while. This episode, so far, takes the cake. This is very close to a Netflix episode on a fruit based series. Well done Jared! Please keep on making great stuff. I'm upping my Patreon backing.

These are what the "i found my berries" guy was talking about

In alaska these are called “salmonberries” because if their color. Not all that uncommon there either actually. I know plenty of people that make jam out of them

this video inspired me to move to Finland. after watching this video, I fell in love with everything from the language, the culture, the people, the nature, fruits, and everything in between! if it weren't for this video, I wouldn't be where I am right now, so I cannot thank you enough. I have met some of the kindest people on the planet here. HYVÄ SUOMI!!! Kiitos kaikesta, suomi, mä rakastan suomalaisia. Tämä maa on paras maa maailmassa! :DDDD

As a Swede, I had no idea cloudberries were so rare. They literally grow everywhere here. Fun fact we call them Hjortron!

It's funny to see someone so excited about something you dreaded as a kid: picking cloudberries. 😅

SO THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE CALLED IN ENGLISH

this is by far the best jam you'll ever have. Try it warm with ice cream and/or waffles. Pancakes. Anyone who disagrees is flat out wrong.

"Go down small paths" would be a suspicious piece of advice in literally any other part of the world other than Scandinavia lol

Finding a cloud berry is like finding a shiny pokemon.

I would so love to try this fruit

Thank you so much for showing the (desolate, lol) market square in Rovaniemi, I used to live right next to it, and seeing it made me feel very homesick now that I live in Helsinki.

And don't forget Snozzberries. They're even harder to find.

It sounds like he just loves traveling and for some reason needs to justify his love for traveling by needing to travel to a place to find a rare fruit.

At first I was like "oooh cloudberries I wonder what those are" Then I realized you were just talking about hjortron. They're pretty tasty though.

21:10 hard to find a lot of them he says. Asked a Finnish friend if he maybe had a few. He showed me his freezer and showed that he had around ~2 buckets of the stuff lol.

Here in Sweden where the foraging culture is very prevalent I agree that when you are picking Berrys, especially cloudberry, every single time you find a berry it feels like finding a treasure, its very satisfying and rewarding picking raspberries, blueberries, etc. Im usually not into this kind of mind-set but I would think this very special feeling stems from foraging being literally what humans have evolved to do, we are made to enjoy it and experience it!

just call my mom, she has like 50 cans of cloudberry jam in her fridge

"They are sitting there with a big bowl of strawberries." *shakes fist*

I just found your channel today and I am so happy that I did. I have just recently experienced terrible loss in my life (I lost my apartment where I lived alone for 8 years and now I have to stay with my mother who yells at me every day). Your weird fruit series will certainly brighten my life. I really need positive and educational entertainment to distract my mind. I was overjoyed when you found the cloudberries. It is wonderful that you go on adventures for a beautiful purpose. I look forward to watching your other videos. I am sure this will be one of my favorite YT channels.

19:25 I imagine the mosquitoes are also doing some food review. "So this male human's blood tastes very fruity and sweet..." Hehe. :D

I feel at any moment a Elf is going to materialize out of the woods to mock you: "Do you get to eat the Cloudberry fruit very often? Oh of course not what was I thinking"

You should try a mayapple. You have to wait until they ripen to yellow or they are poisonous.

I'm a horticulturist, and just love this guys passion for the weird and wonderful. Hats off!

I feel somewhat lucky that these litterally grow in my Grandma’s backyard in northern Norway

Growing up in the Finnish Lapland, I know of places where the cloudberries grow in a thick blanket, but those places are guarded family secrets and most families have their own. These days, though, hundreds or thousands of vietnamese come here to gather cloudberries, sell them to local shops/restaurants and use the money to buy chainsaws and such utilities to bring back and improve their home country. There's enough land here for everyone to pick their share as long as you don't mind going out of your way from the roads a bit.

'the cheese squeaks when you eat it' that is literally one of my worst fears

Fun facts: My maiden name is "Bozik" pronounced traditionally like "Bo-jhee" it means "Bog God" or "Christmas". It is old Turkish.... where the story of "Santa" is actually a horror Story.

I love that Finland gets noticed even once. Finland is always in the shade of Norway and Sweden.

I have this deep suspicion that "I came here for berries" is one of the oldest reasons to go anywhere in human history. Thank you for going out there and finding wacky fruit.

"projectile vomiting sea-lions" had me laughing out loud - as an infant, i was such a sea-lion :-) and about 1964, I was in Helsinki, plus I love this channel!

"I'm tryna stick to that wet" I feel ya, brother.

Also youtube: Ya wanna see some fruit stuff? Me: not really but ok.

Hey man! As a Swede, let me invite you in on a secret... Where there are cloudberries, there are no records of their existence on that location they are found on. If you found gold, you don't make an ad saying where you find it. So the reason you didn't find many in Finland is probably because Finland actually wanted you to go there to look rather than finding cloudberries themselves.

Wowee i live close to rovaniemi and even closer to ranua. 2020 might have been a terrible year but it was a good cloudberry year from what i've heard (too lazy to go myselft). My birthday's coming soon and i'm hoping to have a cloudberry cake :)

RU-vid doesn’t deserve to air this man’s content. He should be featured in a TV show.

this is the most dedicated, wholesome, and underrated chanel on earth

We often call the cloudberrys or the yellow funnel chanterelles 'forest gold' here in Sweden.

"How many times can we ignore what we're looking for to add more places to our tax write-off, before the IRS notices and raids our home?"

meanwhile Geowizard finds some randomly on his straight line across norway mission

Trying cloudberries is one of my new life goals now.

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There is a kind of light-headed mania that befalls some people during the "White Nights" of midsommer, that takes place when you can't get much sleep and the body's biorhythms get thrown out of whack. The opposite happens in the dead of winter in the arctic when lack of daylight causes depression, lethargy and other psychological and physiological problems.

A very close parent of Cloudberry and much scarcer (at least in Finland) is Rubus arcticus. Very similar, but red. The taste is completely different. In Finland, probably 1,000 or 10,000 times scarcer than Rubus chamaemorus (Cloudberry). Incidentally: Rovanemi -> Rovaniemi.

I'm not saying that academics are worthless, but you deserve an honorary PhD at the least

Rubus is a interesting genera. They are found from alpine to tropical zones. If you ever come to malaysia. Try foraging for Rubus molluccanus

We have so many names for these in Finland like lakka, hilla and suomuurain and I love cloudberry jam. In fact my mother lived in Jakomäki a few years ago and it has a small forest where cloudberries grow.

If the berry doesn’t have a big anime sword I don’t want it.

0:49 Ah, yes everyone's favorite fruit, vomit

Few things. You seem to be in Finland a bit early, most likely at the beginning of the cloud berry growing season. Second The Cloud berry festival is a celebration for the bloom or for the up coming growing season, hence no berries. Third the phrase The land of thousand lakes is mainly for marketing, a lot of it is swamps. Cloud berries or hilla or lakka grow on marsh lands. Finland is mostly just one big Swamp, Shrek would love it here, hence the berry is easily found here. You just need good rubber boots, and move away from the duckboards. Fourth dark colours attract blackflies or mäkäräisiä and mosquitos. Fifth Finns love it when Finland is mentioned, so you're gonna get a lot of views from Finland and "Torille" comments.

"The Truffle of the fruits" Five Star Chef:

YES!!! CLOUDBERRIES!!!! This channel scratches my special interest itches and I'm so jazzed. Thank you for making these videos!!!

I'm so used to the various fruits and berries you try being exotic, it ended up being rather shocking to see a berry I basically just have out in the backyard.

ME: Mom, can we have Indiana Jones? MOM: no, we have Indiana Jones at home Indiana Jones at home:

This is the first video ive seen from you and its all i needed in order to subscribe. "A geek that likes fruit" if thats what people think then they dont know how to enjoy the simple things in life. You are living my dream and i may even consider you as a motivation to seek out doing things that bring me peace and happiness

In Latvia they are called "lācenes". The syrup is like hunny-delicius.They are found in swamps.Comon month when you can harvest them is June

Totally worth the wait for this video! Top notch! 🙂👍 Also very interesting to see you go to a place that I've been to (I'm Swedish and have been to Lapland a few times on road trips). I can finally relate to your experience! 😄 The midnight sun is really something else. I at first didn't get it. I mean it's just the sun right? No no no no, it is surreal as you say, and totally worth travelling north to experience. 👍

Imagine this guys plane conversations “Yeah I came here for fruit”

As a Finn I feel slightly embarrassed for the quality of so called entertainment on the spot in Ranua you had to suffer.

it's crazy how people find cloudberries so cool, while they've been 2 minutes outside my house my entire life