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Do you Like wild Garlic?

Rumpel said:
In spring the forests are full of it now.

Maybe specially in Europe?
Known in England?
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I've never tasted wild garlic, but I think I'd probably like it. I like chives, onions, garlic, horseradish, radishes..
 
Wild Garlic has a really strong intensive smell. :)
 
Rumpel said:
Wild Garlic has a really strong intensive smell. :)
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Wild garlic is considered an invasive plant and they organize work groups to pull it up in the state and national parks.
 
I have always wondered how early humans knew what to eat. I mean who finds this stuff and just eats it, when it tastes so weird? Would one of them just eat it and not die, and the rest would be like "oh, Thog eat this, not die. Let's all eat it, because we no have nothing else to eat!"

Ditto for spinach, or kale, or any other number of vegetables. I mean if I was just in the jungle and came across this stuff, I would be VERY hesitant to just pick it up and eat it. How do you know it's not poison ivy or something? Who was the first human who just decided to dig this stuff out of the ground and eat it? God bless our ancestors- they were brave souls living in a very uncertain world they knew very little about!

"If I have seen further it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."
-Isaac Newton

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Lisa said:
Wild garlic is considered an invasive plant and they organize work groups to pull it up in the state and national parks.
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Here it is indigenous

Bärlauch in German = bear leek
 
ataraxia said:
Would one of them just eat it and not die, and the rest would be like "oh, Thog eat this, not die. Let's all eat it, because we no have nothing else to eat!"
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I think that's exactly it. Those people who ate food that was poisonous likely served as lessons fr everyone else.

It's things which are poisonous or give you really bad diarrhoea if you don't cook them or prepare them correctly that impress me about human persistence in trying these foods until the correct methods were discovered.

For example, Ackee - must be left to ripen on the tree and then you go through the proper cooking method. Cocoa Yam have to be thoroughly boiled before eating or you get really irritated gums
 
Infinite Chaos said:
I think that's exactly it. Those people who ate food that was poisonous likely served as lessons fr everyone else.

It's things which are poisonous or give you really bad diarrhoea if you don't cook them or prepare them correctly that impress me about human persistence in trying these foods until the correct methods were discovered.

For example, Ackee - must be left to ripen on the tree and then you go through the proper cooking method. Cocoa Yam have to be thoroughly boiled before eating or you get really irritated gums
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Haha- yes. I don’t even want to know the story of how people finally learned to prepare puffer fish. 😬😳😁
 
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