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[quote name="bombMexico"]God help the weaponlord if you ever get a taste for human flesh:( Walking around grabbing handfuls of whatever to eat seems unhealthy, retarded even. Your palate's wide enough lady, isn't that the entire problem? EVERYTHING tastes good to you. You're of a size where clearly you feel most everything you stuff in your mouth belongs there. And now you're force feeding yourself the one or two things you don't eat regularly until you develop a wild passion for them? Why? Do you have a checklist? When you've developed recipes for ALL ORGANIC MATTER can it finally end? Dear diary: tree bark not at all tasty, will try w/ bacon bits [quote name="Zsenitan"]Dandelion greens are pretty good! In the fancy fucking groceries out here you can get Organic Red Dandelion leaves for $4 a bunch - social cues what ho! It tastes pretty much like standard dandelion: green, complexly bitter. The roots are also edible. Do not scoff at bitter greens; besides being impeccably jewish, almost all bitter greens are better than that curly inedible shit they stick in "european" (means "unpleasant") salad mixes. Eat raw if you are a man like me, or braise with bacon, salt pork, or butter and a little minced onion. There are two tricks to eating dandelion: (1) do not pick from lawns or busy places (bad itinerant gypsies!) as this will likely mean that your dandelion has been dusted with wicked shit at many points in its life cycle, and (2) get the young leaves. The older the leaf, the tougher and the more bitter it is. Also everywhere: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arugula">Arugula</a>. In its feral form it is much smaller than shown here, and purple-tinged at the stems and leaf margins. It is exactly like the arugula you pay through the nose for at the store except more juicy and flavorful - out here the wild arugula has a heady odor of fresh spinach and mushrooms. I grab fistfuls of it out of the margins of woods and use it in all kinds of stuff. Euell Gibbon made the observation about arugula that you are making about dandelions (poor people eat it! they are so fucking marginal!) except in the end he ate that shit too and loved it. My favorite edible wild plant is Queen Anne's Lace - the forerunner of the humble carrot. Roots, greens, flowers, and seeds are uncommonly snackable. The seeds in particular I commend to my audience at home: harvest by just snapping off the entire head, thresh off the prickly outer coat, and use in place of or alongside celery seed, caraway seed, or coriander. The seeds have a wonderful warm, aromatic, nutty carroty flavor - fantastic as the hidden ingredient in a dry rub or on top of rolls, or throw some in with the butter the next time you make glazed carrots.[/quote][/quote]