/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>20098243
knock on the door and ask

>>20098243
Just ask first. If I caught you in my yard uninvited for any reason I’m automatically assuming you’re there to kill me and my family so I’ll react accordingly.

HEY WHAT THE FUCK

>>20098253
But anon. I am there to kill you and your family
T. Glowie

>>20098243
The people I know who grow fruit are happy to share when they have extra or if someone asks. They get upset if someone just wanders onto the property and takes it.

Knock and tell them the fruit looks good and ask if you can have a piece. They might offer to give you more.

>>20098243
don't be a lemon stealing whore

>>20098243
If it was on public property I would just pick the fruit and then stand there and savor every last bite right there in full view of everyone. Then when I was done, I would rub my tummy and pick another fruit to emjoy. What the fuck is anybody gonna do about it?

>>20098373
>Darryl, he is grabbing our fruit!
>Just let him be Samantha, I'm sure he'll scurry off when he's done.
>But what if he eats them all
>*thinking* "I'm gonna kill this bitch someday

imagine being shot and killed attempting to steal a lemon

>>20098379
Heh, when life gives you bullets amiright

>>20098379
>>20098386
It would leave a sour taste in my mouth

>>20098373
>If it was on public property I would just pick the fruit and then stand there and savor every last bite right there in full view of everyone.

I have a pair of peach trees out front, which is weird for this area because it's a densely urban East Coast US city. I wish people would pick them since they produce too many fucking peaches for us to use, I hate getting the ladder to get the ones higher up and most of them wind up on the sidewalk and street for me to scoop up and throw away.
The neighbour behind me, a semi-famous opera singer, has a mulberry tree that hangs over our shared wall into my backgarden. I have to trim that fucker all the goddamn time so it doesn't block out the sun for my tiny-ass vegetable patch. The mulberries are pretty good, tho, and the wood is decent enough for smoking pork.
Anyway, just knock and ask it do it covertly. Or come to my place in a few months and pick all the peaches you want. There's also a pair of houses nearby with apple trees out front and a pear tree in a local park

>>20098255
I came here to post this in case any zoomers had not had their childhoods ruined yet

>>20098729
You don’t worry about liability for injury? I end up adopting a fist shaking boomer approach to absolutely anyone on my property due to worrying about getting sued.

>>20098758
No.
I don't put up a sign or anything encouraging people to take peaches, I just wish they would.

See what happens to you if you take this lady fruit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6uqfDV6UEc&t=251s&ab_channel=AngellaSummerNamubiru

>>20098243
OP, the wrong thing to do is assume a tree that belongs to someone else is free for you to remove fruit from, but you already knew this fact.
Have a relationship with the owner and talk to them first. They will say yes or no and you won't be the first one that asked. If and when they say "you can take a few" have a bag on you and pick the amount you'd consume in a week only. The rest will stay on the tree for next time.

What I wonder is why you don't plant your own damn trees or just buy them at the store like normal people. Are you that poor that you would steal to stay alive? You know it's a liability to the owner if you fall down on their property, or do you not own a home with insurance?

I have a neighbor across the street who is allergic to the 5 mango trees in their front yard that came with the house. These are alphonso, champagne and other utterly best tasting and rare varietals of mangos. She used to let me fill up bags for my own freezer, but nowadays, sick of picking up the pits from her grass with long armed gloves every weekend that destroys lawn mower blades and sets off her allergies, she places an ad in facebook next door app and people come in a truck and pick every piece of fruit at once til the trees are bare. Done, no more for me. Her right, though. It would probably destroy her property to remove all 5 huge trees.

>>20098243
I wonder the same thing about those people with giant rosemary bushes.

>>20098259
Goddamnit I knew it

I have a peach tree and I give all the peaches away because the pits stay around for years if they aren't cleaned up. it's basically just a pain in the ass.

>>20098253
So youll suck my dick?

>>20098373
>If it was on public property I would just pick the fruit and then stand there and savor every last bite right there in full view of everyone.
I did that with the hybrid bitter cherry trees in DC (they're not as bitter as the fully-native version, they're actually nice) and the strawberry trees in the Getty museum in LA.
I did get some odd looks from people, but didn't care.

>>20098243
Yes, they would get mad. It's stealing.

>>20098252
I lived in Florida for about a year some time back with some roommates, and when our grapefruit tree was ripe, a Hispanic family knocked early one morning and asked if they could pick "a few fruits" for their kids. We agreed, not thinking too much about it, but when I left for work, I saw them still out there, filling up a large burlap sack. The tree was bare of fruit from halfway down, and the kids were up in the limbs, breaking branches and throwing fruits down to the mom. We had to chase them off the property waving garden tools at them like they were animals.

>>20098243
>I was wondering, do you think I could get away with theft because I don't think the target is valuable?
Just say what's on your mind, Jesus

>>20098243
As someone with a fruit tree, I don’t care if someone takes figs from the branch that extends over the yard onto the sidewalk

>>20098864
>Ma'am, would you mind if I trimmed your giant bush?

>>20099095
>>20099102
It's not theft if the branches arw hanging over the fence off their property. Not in any sensible jurisdiction.

>>20099084
>strawberry trees
?

>>20098243
they would be
t. did it and they got mad. didnt stop me though

>>20099193
National fruit of Italy (corbezzolo) is, for some reason, called 'strawberry tree' in English. The fruits are called 'tree strawberries.'

>>20098243
Might vary a bit if you're a thirder or whatever, but generally, the part of the tree that is over the property line is the property of the other party.

>>20099227
I didn't know this, thank you

>>20098243
Hey buddy! You're welcome into my garden anytime to pick as many fruits you can! I will not shoot you for trespassing, you can take my word on it, I swear.

>>20099366
Thankyou, I'm glad you don't take the chance since I have horrible agoraphobia so I will be coming onto your property in the dead of the night. I also have self esteem issues so I will be fully masked.
Thanks!

>>20098243
Didn't you learn anything from Adam and Eve about taking fruit that doesn't belong to you?

>>20099338
Not surprising if you're not from Europe. They don't transport easily at all. Even euros from out of the med might not know they exist, though some foreigners, notably the English, have taken a few trees to grow elsewhere. There are a few in the warm parts of southern England and, oddly, a bunch of them in Ireland but idk if any locals eat them.
It's kind of like cornels or whatever you call them in English. They grow all over the northeastern US, but even after moving here from Italy, I've never met a single American who's ever eaten any. They're like an elongated cherry that tastes of cranberry (and cherry, unsurprisingly) and we make them into jam in Italy because they're sour/bitter/astringent af raw.

>>20099376
Anon's property is kinda overgrown, you might want to bring a machete with you too.

I used to rent a house where the neighbors had a couple fruit trees with branches that extended into our yard, and I never saw any issue picking the fruit that was technically in our yard, and don't think there should be any issue. But I wouldn't just walk around a random neighborhood and do that. Like everyone else said, knock and ask. Most people are happy to have some of the fruit taken away as it's more than they're going to use and will just be more to clean up otherwise. Asking to actually be let in to their backyard to pick their fruit would be kind of weird for a stranger.

>>20098243
My urban commieblock neighborhood has walnut, peach, and some berry trees. Kids probably eat them, but personally, I'm distrustful of them. They've probably absorbed a non-neglegible amount of toxins from the car exhaust.

>>20099650
legally all the branches in your property are yours, you could even cut them back if you wanted

>>20099935
>urban commieblock
Yeah, it's not the car exhausts I'd be worried about.

>>20099575
>oddly, a bunch of them in Ireland but idk if any locals eat them.
There's a reason for that. The fruit is juicy but relatively bland, like a soft but flavorless peach. It's also very gritty, with a lot of small but woody seeds.

>They're like an elongated cherry that tastes of cranberry (and cherry, unsurprisingly) and we make them into jam in Italy because they're sour/bitter/astringent af raw.
If you let them wilt on the tree for a bit, the astringency/sourness decreases to around sour cherry levels (maybe even a bit lower). They're actually nice to have, as long as you don't eat a lot (get a serious case of cotton mouth). They're also irregular fruiters, in some years you don't get any.

>>20098243
in many city ordinance if something hangs in to your property you may do what you want with it.

>>20098373
>If it was on public property I would just pick the fruit and then stand there and savor every last bite right there in full view of everyone. Then when I was done, I would rub my tummy and pick another fruit to emjoy. What the fuck is anybody gonna do about it?

>>20099555
Eve was a lemon whore?

I had a couple of pecan trees at my old place. I never did anything with them. Even if I never touched them, I'd still be pissed if some random faggot came into my yard unannounced. Go knock on the door, say you were out for a walk and saw the fruit tree, and ask if the homeowner would mind if you picked a few. At worst they'll say no.

Only redditors value human life over their own property so you better look for the most reddit house on the block if you plan this

Growing up, my family had a small patch of land in Suburbia and we had about 25 fruit trees. When it was plentiful, we would put a sign out saying people can take a few. Most of the time, people would ring our doorbell and ask and we never said no.

>>20098243
On or overhanging public property, public can pick.

>>20098253
>>20098263
>>20098379
>>20098758
>>20098859
didn't read ops post.

>>20100196
This. Any house with one of those "no person is illegal" signs is giving you permission to go in their property and take or do whatever you want.

>>20100349
Why is every right-winger a mental 12 year old?

>>20098243
At the right time of year, if you ask me for an apple, I'll give you a whole bag of them. We have to throw them away, the tree produces far more than we can use. My neighbor has an even bigger apple tree and he can't pick them at all; he has to leave them for the wild parrots.
So ask. You've got a very good chance of getting lucky because fruit trees tend to over-produce.

>>20100420
The right basically gave up trying to do anything constructive and its entire existence now depends on figuring out how to make very stupid people very angry

>>20098253
You don’t have a yard or a family

>>20098243
>Do you think these types of people would get mad if I picked some of their fruit?
Yes. It's considered asshole behavior. Especially shit in the backyard - that shit is NOT for you, the public. Most people are gardening/farming for themselves & family. Don't be a varmit and steal shit.

If you want stuff - ask for it.

>>20098729
can't get high from peaches

If it's in a spot where the fruit can fall and litter the public ground with rotten fruit that attracts wasps and such and make a noisome odor then you are morally obligated to take those fruits before that can happen

>>20100441
It's actually kind of wild that it was only around 2010 that dems overtook republicans on higher education. The right was always more affluent, but they're so god damned stupid. If this graph is accurate it's actually good news.

>>20101227
Literally just a sign of how college education has been going down the drain and only one side recognizes this.
t. college instructor

If the branches are hanging over public property the fruits are public fruits
You only own the part of the tree physically within your property line
That's why you can cut your neighbors bushes when they cross your fence

There’s a foraging app where users map out all the public and semi-public growing fruit based on your current location.

>>20101231
>educated people prefer to have educated people in charge
What exactly is the problem here? Does learning how to think critically and communicate through logical, coherent argumentation based on based on an understanding of data somehow make you incapable of comprehending Trump's 7D economic policies? Enlighten me, supposed fellow "college instructor" (it's called professor, btw).

>>20100441
As a very stupid person, it's not that hard I don't think anyone's putting all their time into it. they must have a lot of free time go fuck yourself (see?)

>>20101307
>as a very stupid person
>*proceeds to type out incomprehensible nonsense with what appears to be a "gotcha" at the end*

>>20101315
It's not hard to piss off stupid people, it can happen organically and neo cons pretend to care for money should've been your point. I didn't 'get ya' it was a joke at my own expense.

>>20098243
Last time I caught a neighborhood boy stealing peaches from my tree I killed him with a crossbow. Luckily I was in Texas and was acquitted

>>20101326
Oh who gives a fuck about a peach?

>>20101330
Peach trees are great for bees, and bees are important because they help to usher in the end of days. Texans are fucking insane, anon. Did you never wonder why they're all zionists?

>>20101322
I'm pretty drunk, so bear with me, but I'm still fairly certain that the strings of words you've been posting don't add up to coherent thoughts.

>>20101359
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to try and trick an intoxicated person. Maybe I am talking nonsense, it's late and I got defensive. But I wasn't trying to 'get ya'.

>>20101359
It’s not you. I’m also pretty drunk and that anon is making no sense.

>>20101374
whatever leftie

>>20101363
I got that part. I just have no clue what everything leading up to it was supposed to be saying.
>it's not that hard I don't think anyone's putting all their time into it. they must have a lot of free time go fuck yourself
>It's not hard to piss off stupid people, it can happen organically and neo cons pretend to care for money should've been your point
I feel like that second post was supposed to clarify the first, but has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

>>20101388
my soft spot hurts was my point

Is it fine to pick fruit that is on some kind of memorial/museum type grounds?

>>20099186
>t. Hispanic animal

>>20101474
like a chihuahua?

If you don't have to cross the line into their property to take it, it's all yours, ethically and legally. If they don't like it, they can trim their trees better.

>>20099227
wow. these look amazing. gotta try them if I ever get my trip to italy.

>>20101474
Stop letting your plants infringe on public property and you won't have a problem. You knew what was going to that tree when you planted it so close to the fenceline.

There is a public park by my house that has a forest area full of wild blueberries, blackberries, raspberries. I was picking some blueberries and this lady appeared out of nowhere..and said I wasn't allowed to take any berries and called the police. They showed up and told the lady that they are everyones berries not just hers. She left pissed off and the cops said she was mad because she uses those berries to make muffins and sell them at the farmers market. Greedy bitch.

>>20101478
More like a capuchinchin.

>>20098243
most people don't actually eat the fruits in their yards, they just grow it as a decoration. i sometimes see people put signs out that invite you to pick their fruits for free

>>20102220
Lazy fucks. If they aren't going to eat them, then they should pick the fruits themselves and distribute them to everyone in the neighborhood. That way you're not only preventing the fruits from going waste, but also networking with your neighbors. You give your fruits and they will give you theirs in exchange, and pretty soon you've got a friendly community going. Rather than a bunch of NPCs living in their suburban pods who don't even know who their neighbors are.

>>20099227
Wikipedia calls them Arbutus Berries

>>20098243
A house in my neighborhood had a mulberry tree that hung over the wall and over a public sidewalk, one I took to work every day. I picked quite a few on my commutes, as did a lot of other people, because if we didn't they'd fall and stain the concrete purple because the owner didn't pick them

I live in Miami and as retarded and unstable as everyone here normally is, mango season in the early season gets especially spicy.

The people who have Mango trees either

A. Ignore the fruit so it just falls and rots and reeks up the whole neighborhood
B. Pick the fruit and try to sell it
C. Pick the fruit and put it in a box in the front yard and give it away, but it all gets stolen by Yordanny and Yusnabio

Then you have people (Cubans) who think it's acceptable to climb a fence to get into your yard and just take as many mangoes as they want.

We have a few people shot and killed every year over mangoes.

>>20102531
>t. Normie who cannot conceptualize someone who doesn't want to live in a community
I don't know my neighbors and they don't know me and it is perfect like that. I want to spend my time alone.
>inb4 you chose to live in a community by buying a house.
Nope, I didn't. Neighbors are a nuisance but sadly a necessary one if you want to live close to a supermarket

>>20102666
>t. an NPC goy who is alive only because of daddy state, not because he has a community of neighbors, friends, relatives to back him
Don't bitch and moan when the hordes of negros and rapefugees take over your neighborhood because you brought a knife to a gunfight.

i have apple trees and juneberry bushes :)

>>20102531
Peach trees guy here. I tell neighbours to pick them but they don't, which is weird because this is an Asian area and my neighbours are mostly Asian. idk if wypipo are aware of the stereotype, but if you drive literally anywhere with an Asian granny in the car and she sees a fruit tree she can reach, you can bet your ass she'll tell you to pull over so she can pick it. My own Asia-born grandmother literally died because of that, falling out of a tree SHE WAS CLIMBING to get at the best fruits.
Maybe it's because everyone here is pretty yuppy-y except for the few remaining greasy wop degos and the Pakistani family. I might be beneath a yuppy to pick peaches.
I need people to come to the city and eat them a lotta peaches. Millions of peaches. Peaches for free.

>>20103084
>idk if wypipo are aware of the stereotype
I dunno about westoids but that's how it was with my slav grandparents.

Personally I look to see how many fruits are rotting on the ground, because if there are a ton of them and they wanna have a go at me for stealing their fruit I will point down at what wasteful cunts they are.

>>20103084
We know. It’s an instinctive response because of famine genes. There are older Asian people who fish in the polluted as fuck river in my city. The river hasn’t even been safe for swimming in generations but that doesn’t stop them from catching and eating fish. They also pick some kind of greens that grow along the river bank.

>>20101290
>Enlighten me, supposed fellow "college instructor" (it's called professor, btw).
Lol I love when people try to sound smart by being completely wrong. On the internet. When anything can be instantly verified.

>>20103094
>slav grandparents
Well, my Asian granny spoke Russian and had blond hair and blue eyes. You can probably guess where she was from lmao

>>20100441
All those Democrat "degrees" are in Ugandan Hip Hop or Applied Shakespeare or Women's Studies, not anything useful like STEM.

Also you're a demoralizing fed

>>20103291
I've done 3 STEM degrees at Tier-1 US unis and I've never met a post-2006 Republican.

>>20098243
Holy shit, they're real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ijihli14Wk

>>20103329
To expand on this, even the dead-set single-issue pro-life Catholics stopped identifying as GOP after Iraq turned to shit. McCain was sorta a reason for hope of recovery for many (and remember he was running as anti-Bush), but most saw Romney (and his primary) as just picking through dregs in a landfill.

There's a reason everyone left and didn't come back.

>>20103330
This is meant to be a silly joke but in realty , women really are horrible people

>>20103330
Even if you dont have any lemons at all, they will find other stuff to steal

>>20103160
Don't be rude. He probably just couldn't afford to go to college.

>>20103329
STEM people tend to lean left because they're typically science fags (positivists), which means they look at reality and draw conclusions based on the facts in front of them - and reality aligns more with the left. Today's Republican party is explicitly anti-empiricism.

>>20103417
That is just bullshit
The reason you see fewer conservatives in some of these stem fields is because they're into DEI shit and actively pushing conservatives out of their businesses

>>20103435
Having left leaning politics doesn't make you a minority, retard. If anything they're overrepresented across all post-graduate disciplines.

>>20103435
lol
No they're fucking not. The only degrees conservatives ever study for are law because they want to dishonestly bend it to suit their agenda. Guess who else goes into law to push agendas?
I'll give you a hint. He's behind the post below:
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>>20103084
it's always the hispanics and slavs that try to get my fruits for free

>>20098243
My parents had a row of stonefruit trees instead of a fence at the front and we didn't mind if people grabbed one or two as they went past (especially as they were usually infested with fruit fly).
The Chinese people that would rock up with shopping bags and strip the trees (including the other fruit trees inside the property) were definitely crossing a line though.

>>20098243
I rent a garage from an old guy down the block and I have access to his back yard through the back door of the garage. Basically the garage and house are abutting the sidewalk and the backyard is behind both of them. Well, he has a mulberry tree back there, and let's just say... I eat as many as I want.

>>20100420
>be leftie
>Trump wins 2016
>throw a four year long screaming tantrum
>culminating in "summer of love" with "fiery but peaceful protests" killing hundreds and causing billions in property damage
>memeflu makes people start sneezing in 2020
>throw three more years of tantrum demanding everyone wear masks, "social distance", get vaccinated or get fired
>Biden wins 2020
>conduct ongoing witch-hunt against "Trumpists"
>pretend J6 was an "insurrection" and throw actually nonviolent people who were waved into the Capitol Building by security into prison for 5-20 years
yeah it's totally those stupid righties bro

>>20100441
>muh "Democrats are smarter!" because they get degrees in Womyns' Studies and can recognize 97 different genders
lel

>>20103417
you're not going to memory hole all the shit "the scientists" pulled during covid and the big dumb hillbilly conservatives were completely right about

it came from a lab
masks don't work
the vaccine doesn't work
natural immunity is stronger than vaccines
/dealwithit

>>20098243
yeah sure anon go ahead and pick one of my fruits bro no problem

>>20104802
grandma close the 4chan tab this isn't facebook

>>20104799
>throw actually nonviolent people who were waved into the Capitol Building by security into prison for 5-20 years
Holy shit, dude. Are you seriously still going with this narrative?
>yeah, bro. i know there were like a thousand cameras coving the event, but obviously nobody flew any planes into the world trade center
>it was like totally just a david coperfield magic trick and the corrupt media has been trying to tell us otherwise this whole time
That's how dumb you sound.

>>20104802
>masks don't work
That's like saying covering your mouth and nose when you cough or sneeze doesn't do anything.

>>20102922
Won't happen, I live in Germany, which is nothing like amerimutts imagine it to be. Thank you for worrying about me though.

>>20104799
See >>20103457, Mrs Shekelstein.

>>20098243
>>20098255
I was genuinely disappointed when it didn't turn into some lemonade/lemon juice nonsense where at least two of the three women involved had to pee on camera for some reason.

>>20104799
this is your brain on 2024 twitter

>>20104862
I'll feed you to the gators

>>20104799
Your mind is infected.

When I was a kid in Florida, the old faggot living next door had a big palm tree that grew coconuts. They'd just fall off and he'd leave them on the ground forever. It was in his front yard, between our driveway and this was a neighborhood without fences in the front.
The one time I took one to try and crack in my driveway, the old fag started yelling and called me a thief and then tried to curse my mom out for letting me take the coconuts that he literally left in rotting piles on the ground.
My mom told him to fuck off or call the police if it was such a big deal so he fucked off but he always bitched about it every time he saw us after that.
Hurricane Charley uprooted the mangrove tree next to his palm and put it through his roof. And all his coconuts washed away too. Fuck that guy, hope he died painfully.

>>20098243
its homeless bait, I lure them on my property with free fruit, and shoot them in self defenending My Property

>>20103417
>STEM people tend to lean left
Traditionally, scientists tended to go a bit more left and engineers tended to go a bit more right. But both were always soft left and soft right, as they have to deal with reality and it really helps to not have delusions when doing that.

There are tons of videos from South America and Central America of fruit thieves being caught and beaten by the fruit tree owner. In America if you caned a Guatemalan in your backyard for stealing from your fruit tree, you would go to prison for a hate crime.

>>20107481
thirdies are actually going to eat their fruit to survive, in america its either just decorative or cottagecore larp where they make 1 batch of lemonade once a year and the rest rot on the ground

>>20098243
If it's growing into your yard or directly over the sidewalk it's fair game in my book. As long as you don't step onto or reach into private property for it I don't see the issue.

>>20098243
>in their yard
No
>branches growing out over their fence
Yes. I mean don’t be a sperg and bring a bucket to fill but people with fruit trees end up with way more fruit than they can actually eat and are happy to give it away. Of course if they’re in their yard or something then ask but they will not miss a couple lemons or persimmons. I grew up in SoCal and it was normal to grab avocados. On the walk home from school one lady would leave out paper bags and specifically ask us to take them. Now I have a few fruit trees in my backyard and would be furious if I found some kid back there going for them but I also have the process most years of trying to figure out how to give away fruit before it spoils. Just don’t be greedy and behave like a good member of society.

Gardens are very different from trees btw, absolutely do not touch anyone’s garden regardless if you can reach the tomatoes from the sidewalk

>>20102531
>lazy fucks
Most people grow the trees because they like the fruit on them. But once they’re ripened you’ll have way more than you know what to do with unless you’re into canning or other preservation. And they only last so long. My MIL has a lemon and she’ll easily use a third of what the tree makes but that means lemon bars, lemonade, lemon cookies, lemon chicken, lemon fish, lemon everything for a week or two and there’s still a shitload of lemons left.

Also
>they should pick the fruits themselves and distribute them to everyone in the neighborhood
lol, lmao

>>20103417
Science isn't positivist and never was, dumbass. That's a meme from pre-war philosophy that no credentialed (read: employed) modern philosopher even takes seriously.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-empiricism/#Imp

>>20103778
>>20103457 said you're jewish