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You missed the part where it strangles every other plant around it, and grows back regardless of how aggressively it's removed. Also the stabbing, lots of stabbing.
But still, we love our angry little pest, because it giveth us tasty fruit.
I was eating blackberries from the forest yesterday, and spitting the seeds out as I walked around my yard, and then I realized in horror what I was doing.
I have never in all my years of eating blackberries heard of anyone spitting the seeds out.
I noticed the .uk in your name and now I'm wondering if British blackberries have smaller seeds? Some of the blackberries around here (Tennessee/us south in general) have massive, and incredibly hard, seeds. We're talking 1/4 the size of a pea. But the berries themselves are also huge. Size of my thumb or bigger.
We don't have this problem in Canada. So maybe it's a southern thing?
The .uk is just from the instance that I joined, I am in the US Southeast. I've eaten blackberries all over Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina. I guess I just have a higher tolerance for crunching up seeds than some people.
I don't spit them all out, but there's usually a few big ones left stuck in my mouth at the end. They're too tiny to swallow though, so it's easiest to just spit them out.