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Just ate one of these and it tastes like bitter horrible leaves.
Why do people eate these? is it supposed to taste like that?

>> No.13920937

>>13920930
They know how to prepare them. :)))))))))

>> No.13920944

There's several species of dandelion.
Not that it really matters, because there's little difference between them and they all taste bad.

>> No.13920997

>>13920930
you're suppose to eat them earlier in the season before they've flowered you dummy

>> No.13922016

Eat them before they flower. Don't have a recipe but my mother used to make a dandelion salad with egg yolk, vinegar, and sugar dressing. Toss with bacon.

>> No.13922116

>>13920930
Cooking them with garlic and ginger helps balance out the bitterness.

>> No.13922120

>>13920930
If you picked them from a park or other public space, you're probably tasting Roundup. I wouldn't worry about it.

>> No.13922123

>>13920997
>>13922116
they can be bitter before they flower
eat them the younger the better

>> No.13922147

>>13920930
try making dandilion "honey"
it's sugar syrup made with the flowers. tastes a bit like honey

>> No.13922149

>>13922120
Why is a stranger randomly coming onto my yard and spraying roundup for free?

>> No.13922156

Vile weed. You can come to my house and pick all you want from my yard for free.

>> No.13922160

>>13922156
Gladly. More food for me.

>> No.13922164

>>13922149
You don't own the park just because you sleep on one of the benches.

>> No.13922168

>>13922160
i have some grass clippings you can have too

>> No.13922171

I remember as a kid I read about dandelion milk in a book, so I picked a dandelion in the back yard, ripped the stem, and licked the white liquid inside

It was the most foul and bitter thing I've ever tasted in my life, I immediately ran inside to wash my mouth out, did it for 5 minutes, and the taste still wouldn't go away for a good hour

>> No.13922177

>>13922164
Oh I get it, you're not familiar with yards. Sorry to hear you're a city cuck with no private property. Planning to kill yourself soon?

>> No.13922178

>>13922171
Does a dandelion have udders? Burn that scumbag vegan book.

>> No.13922185

>>13922168
Cool, fertilizer for my garden. Thanks bitch.

>> No.13922192

>>13922177
I was going easy on you and giving you a chance to notice your error. I'm still going pretty easy on you. It was an absurd error that raises a lot of alarm bells about your intellectual capacity, but I'm in a good mood right now so I'll let it slide.

>> No.13922194

>>13922192
I give you a week max.

>> No.13922219

>>13922123
I have brand new ones in my front yard.
Going to go taste one now. If your lying I am never trusting the internets again

>> No.13922346

>>13922219
17 minutes later. Anon is kill.

>> No.13922356
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13922356

>>13922346
No not kill
Just very angry and very disappoint in my fellow internetters

>> No.13922359

Mabe dog pissed

>> No.13922808

>>13922356
She’s right though

>> No.13923137

>>13922808
Right about what?

>> No.13923145

>>13923137
People who boast about sexual assault should not be given positions of power.

>> No.13923193

>>13920930
Yes, they are supposed to taste like that. Modern plant varieties are so bland compared to what they once were everyone has forgotten how flavor used to be.

>> No.13923225

>>13920930
You pick them young and they aren't bitter. The older leaves can be blanched in a couple changes of water and they aren't bitter either.

Given the food shortages we're facing here in late stage capitalist US, I've been collecting wild plants. Spiny lettuce and plantains are coming up here in zone 7b. Cut some bamboo shoots a couple days ago, peeled them, blanched in salt water and did them in a ginger, garlic, hot pepper, soy sauce, fish sauce stir fry that was very tasty. Similar to fresh asparagus.

>> No.13923230

Poverty. You don't eat them because you want to, you eat them because that's what you've got to eat. Same with a lot of soul food

>> No.13923233

>>13923145
Fair enough.

>> No.13923240

>>13923225
Man's living like a caveman

>> No.13923261

>>13923145
I think thats silly. People say all sorts of things over the course of a lifetime.
This whole thing where protecting women from discomfort at all costs has got to stop.
Its ruining western civilization.
Feminism is poison

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13923291

>>13920937

>> No.13923301

>>13923261
ok, but that's a leftist position. Proper conservatives would never even think to be an asshole.

>> No.13923312

>>13923301
Its a pragmatic position.
Being an asshole is not nearly as bad as ruining people careers for remarks made in bad taste.

>> No.13923378

>>13920930
I did this once, then realized it was probably sprayed with pesticides at some point

Did you go into an unmanaged area where it would have been free of chemicals?

>> No.13923382

>>13923378
You mean my fucking yard?

>> No.13923390

>>13923382
>yard
>where wild animals walk all the time
>where you have walked with your shoes on

Enjoy eating ticks, rabies, shards of broken glass and literal shit.

>> No.13923402

>>13923390
Yeah that's how nature works, dumbfuck. Stick to concrete, you wouldn't make it out here.

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a bad thread turning into a complete shitshow, never change.

Also, i find leafy greens to be too tedious to forage for, mushrooms and berries are pretty much the only worthwhile wild edibles.