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The Cranberries have had to cancel tours scheduled for this past summer and fall, due to singer Dolores O'Riordan's back problems.

The Cranberries "Dream" Oh nineties, I miss you so...

My mother tried making cranberry sauce at home one year. My father was on his anti-sugar kick and so she did not use enough sweetener. The result was this sour mush of semi-whole cranberries "crammed" in a bowl. My dad should have had to eat all that goop since it was his fault, but oh well. I have never tried to make my own cranberry sauce because I think the canned stuff really is much better, your mileage may vary.

Bare Elf could not gather cranberries unless she lives in a bog with access to lots of water and a particular soil composition. Local Mass growers have had problems the last few years with their cranberry crops, particularly because of drought CBS, Boston.

Although commercial cranberry cultivation began in Massachusetts in 1816, the Wampanoag people across southeastern Massachusetts have enjoyed the annual harvest of "sasumuneash" for hundreds of years.
Cranberries were valued for their nutrition as well as for medical purposes and apparently made a spiffy dye.

Cranberry fun facts!
November 22 is National Cranberry relish day.
The cranberry became the Massachusetts state berry in 1994.
Wow, such super fun! I did not know either of these fun facts!

So, I guess I could go on, but I've managed to nearly put myself to sleep gathering the previous FUN (kinda boring) FACTS!!