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bumbleberry
DCHP-2 (Nov 2012)
n. — especially British Columbia and Alberta, Food
a mixture of berries, sometimes containing apples and rhubarb, generally used as a pie filling.
Type: 1. Origin — Bumbleberry is used most frequently in Canada (see Chart 1), most often in British Columbia and Alberta (see Chart 2). It is not listed in any non-Canadian dictionaries from the standard set. COD-2 writes that the word may come from "English dialect bumble, = rosehip, blackberry, possibly deformation of BRAMBLE". The name is used by some as a marker of national identity (see the 1992 quotation).
Quotations
1988
The pies are probably the stars of the show at the restaurant: fruit pies such as apple, blackberry, bumbleberry (a mixture of raspberry, apple, blackberry and rhubarb) and cream pies such as lemon meringue and walnut cream, are in big demand, says McKay.
1989
You can't miss them at the North Shore's little corner of Expo 86. Towering lemon meringue, gluttonous coconut cream, scrumptious apple, blackberry, raspberry-rhubarb, pumpkin and bumbleberry (a mixture of raspberry, apple, blackberry and rhubarb).
1992
It has often occurred to me that a visitor -- a visiting Italian, let us say -- upon being told that Canadians didn't believe themselves to be a people with a strong cultural identity, would spend a single weekend observing summer rituals -- the cottage with all its traditions and trappings, the lodge with its antlers and heart-attack breakfast, the boats, the barbecues, the tents, the "all summer" Top 40, the bumbleberry pies -- and, bewildered by a nation's inability to see itself, would confront us with our own, all-too obvious, utterly unique bowl of spaghetti.
1994
Fruit pies are a specialty. We chose Marie Quinn's "bumbleberry" flavor - a mixture of the fruits she makes into other pies - blueberry, strawberry with rhubarb, or raspberry, $4.75, or apple, $4. The "bumbles" were delicious, the pastry good.
2008
"The blueberry ice cream isn't written in stone. It could be raspberry, banana, cherry, saskatoon, bumbleberry or chocolate. Basically any flavour on the board," he said.
2010
They also make four table wines (less sweet than the fortifieds): cherry, bumbleberry (a combination of berries), strawberry-rhubarb and raspberry.
References
- COD-2
Images
Image 1: Slice of Bumbleberry Pie. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Photo: J. Knedlik
Chart 1 Internet Domain Search, 18 Oct. 2013
