SC - Haggis and Strawberries

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>from the grocer, but where I live 'wild strawberries' don't have any
>flavor at all...

Most of them don't, but there are some varieties that do.  I wish I could take
you to taste the ones I would pick when I was younger.  I knew of three outcroppings
of them around Upper Perk, but two are now housing developments and one is being
razed for something, we just don't know what yet.  (They also destroyed about
an acre of honeysuckle that you could smell blocks away, many old beautiful
mulberry trees, a whole bunch of raspberries and many acres of prime Small Child
habitat.  I'm just a little bitter.)

My grandmother also had them in her yard, but she no longer lives in that house.
 (And the new owner turned her garden into a driveway, pulled down the grape
arbors and cut down the pear, apple, walnut and cherry trees.  He was looking
to rent the property out and didn't want to handle any upkeep.  Argh!) 

They were quite sweet, though not as finely flavored as the grocery store giants.
 They were perfect when I was a kid and in it for the sugar :)  If I find them
again, I will definately pull some out of the ground and bring them home for
my own garden.

- -Magdalena