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They were frozen... Out of season it is the only way to buy blueberries.

Making sauce or heating up a muffin, I guess?

Or frozen blueberries, but why would anyone buy frozen blueberries.

> Or frozen blueberries, but why would anyone buy frozen blueberries.

Because they are available and inexpensive year-round, and they defrost well and are good in many applications. Outside of the peak of local season, its the best way to buy blueberries.

Maybe they had the kind that grows in the wood and not in the shop? ;) When you pick berries it is normal to store them frozen to have through the winter

why would anyone buy frozen blueberries

Because 'fresh' blueberries out of seasons cost 3 times as much and taste like nothing much.

> but why would anyone buy frozen blueberries.

Smoothies.

Assuming they mean the frozen, bagged ones.

To make them explode.