Before blackberry season gets under way...

[pseudomonas]

When I was a kid back in the 80s, I was told not to pick and eat fruit growing next to busy roads. In these days of near-universal unleaded petrol, does this advice still hold true at all?

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[atreic]

I eat roadside blackberries, in that if I am walking along and there is a roadside blackberry that looks tasty, I eat it. This has not killed me yet, but probably isn't doing my life expectancy much good. [On the other hand, my reduced life expectancy has a lot more blackberries in it]

But I don't go blackberrying at roadside blackberry patches - if I was going out to pick a tub full, I'd go somewhere not near the road

[rowan]

Well, you're presumably taking in a lot of the crap you're worried about anyway, just via your lungs...