Cora vs radioactive blueberries

Many (if not all) of you know that I’m half polish. And that I thus have a polish grandmother. And I think a few of you are quite familiar with some of the stories about her. Like, her buying 4,5 kg of polish ham when I ask for a little sample to take home. (Yeah guys, this is not a joke. She did buy this much. She also bought 2kg of cheese.) In her mind, it’s still WW2 and we are all starving. So she needs to help us. We regularly have to throw away kilos and kilos of polish food that she sends over. It simply doesn’t fit into our freezer. And also, it just tastes horrible. But why am I talking about this? Very simply because recently, quite a hilarious episode has happened thanks to one of my grandma’s food-deliveries. This time it was polish blueberries. You must know, my relatives own this house in the woods near Warsaw. And in those woods grow an awful lot of blueberries. And I mean tons. My grandma goes there for weekends to pick blueberries. Now I’m not talking about a basket or two. More like 10 kilos or 20. Yep. That’s correct. She gets up and picks blueberries until it gets too dark to see. Then she goes to bed and repeats the procedure on the next day. And then she sends the blueberries to us. I really like that because they taste really good, much better than the greasy meat or weird cabbage. So that’s good. But then, my parents started to get worried. Now, two things you need to know is that during Tchernobyl, my dad went around Switzerland to measure the radioactivity of cheese and stuff. And I think he never really got over it. The second thing is that the older they get, the more obsessed they are with living as long as possible and as healthily as possible. So, we have no more milk (coz that’s bad for you). Almost no more cheese (equally bad), they take vitamin D and make weird health shakes for every meal. So what did my parents do with the blueberries? They send the polish blueberries to the cantonal office for radioactive research or sth and let them measure how “hot” they are! Because, maybe they were contaminated during Tchernobyl and we should not eat them!!! Luckily for us, the results were ok, the blueberries contain 10x less radioactivity than the accepted level so we can eat them. Now imagine if they had containted more…. Our freezer was full of them. We’d basically have a radioactive freezer. Scary stuff.  And I bet the invoice will be just as scary. I mean- such measurements are not cheap I’m sure. I can’t wait to see what they are gonna come up with next…Maybe they should make them check my polish relatives…. That could explain a thing or two…