• @housefinch@lemmygrad.ml
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    82 years ago

    In urban areas or by busy streets exhaust can add toxins to any foragebles.

    Hate to shit on dandelions, alas, with anarchists its mostly flowery (hehe) idea and shit execution.

    Foraged early spring the leaves make a decent spinach substitute and if you clean, slice, and toast the roots in a pan it makes a barely acceptable creamy decaf coffee substitute if you’re ever in need of one, battered and fried the flowers aren’t too bad.

    • @201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
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      32 years ago

      Oh yeah, I never said they were an ideal food source. Just that they were edible. Like you could eat them any time but only in early spring before they go to seed will they taste the best. Basically the same for carrots and some other tubers. If they go to flower/seed and overwinter they usually become way less ideal to eat.

      • @housefinch@lemmygrad.ml
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        32 years ago

        100%. Another common one is wild grape leaf, if you don’t eat them when they first come out they develop an inedible fibrous texture. Though grape leaves are yummy when stuff or fried.