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The hoax I wish would get around is that it is really good to smoke is dandelion roots. I love to imagine groups of teenagers running around at night digging o
by te_platt 8y ago
The hoax I wish would get around is that it is really good to smoke is dandelion roots. I love to imagine groups of teenagers running around at night digging out dandelions from random people's (especially mine) yards.
- krrrh 8y agoDandelion leaves are great in salads and super healthy. There are some teenagers who will appreciate that message, you just need to find them.
- maxerickson 8y agoGetting the root out of the ground kills them a lot more dead.
- andscoop 8y agoCurious, why "super healthy"? Not that I doubt the statement, but I think it's interesting that something that I view as nutritionally insignificant is viewed that way by someone else. Then again I'm not a nutritionist or even a particularly healthy eater, more just a nutritionally curious person.
- FlyMoreRockets 8y agohttps://healthyeating.sfgate.com/health-benefits-eating-dandelion-greens-4433.html https://healthyeating.sfgate.com/health-benefits-eating-dand... Dandelion greens are fairly nutritionally dense. They are high in vitamins and minerals, good for bones, blood and liver.
- stouset 8y agoI really hate this perspective on food. The vast majority of people who might have access to—or want to eat—dandelion are not malnourished and do not have vitamin deficiencies, and so adding dandelion to their diet will have zero net effect on their health. Swapping some vegetable out for dandelion will have zero net effect on their health. Replacing one doughnut with one portion of dandelion will have zero net effect on their health when compared to swapping out that doughnut for any other reasonable vegetable. Individual foods are, generally speaking, neither healthy nor unhealthy. Diets are healthy or unhealthy.
- mikekchar 8y agoBut, if you eat healthy food, you don't have to eat as much to get your nutrients! And people are always trying to optimise it so that they don't have to eat as much food ;-) It is funny the ideas that become popular, isn't it.
- FlyMoreRockets 8y agoThe typical American diet is sorely lacking in fresh greens especially, fruits and vegetables in general. Consider also fresh food deserts that exist in many cities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert Dandelions are widely available in most cities and very easy to grow, guerrilla gardening style. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_gardening https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_gardening
- matte_black 8y agoNot a good idea if pesticides were sprayed.
- ravenstine 8y agoWhat's also good is sow thistle, which most people mistake for dandelion, but is a bit uglier looking. If eaten when they're young and tender, they're quite tasty and not bitter like dandelion. Whenever I spot a sow thistle in my yard, I just let it grow like any other vegetable.
- jacobush 8y agoYoung dandelion leaves are not very bitter at all.
- creep 8y agoI used to mix dandelion shoots in with my green smoothie in the morning, when they were available. It gave the smoothie kind of a creamy effect, with a microfoam on top. It was delicious.
- ravenstine 8y agoThey're not very bitter, but I still prefer the taste of sow thistle. I still love dandelions, though. :) They're definitely an under-appreciated and misunderstood plant. From what I've read, they're actually beneficial for lawns as their long roots draw up nutrients from deep in the soil. Yet we pull them out and spray herbicides to kill them! I don't remember ever seeing brown patches caused by dandelions.
- Alex3917 8y agoThere are a lot of invasive species you can actually (theoretically) get high on. E.g. Phalaris, white mulberry, mugwort, non-native sweet flag, parsnips, etc. Most (but not all) things growing in your lawn you can eat though, if the area is free from toxins. The reason we have invasive species is because they came from somewhere else, and usually the reason they came from somewhere else is because they were what people ate before we discovered/invented better crops. Or at least this is true in New England and the mid-Atlantic regions, I can't speak for everywhere else.
- mirimir 8y agoI used to own a book on ayahuasca combinations (DMT plus an MAO inhibitor) using temperate-zone plants. I don't recall the name, and am not finding anything. Anyone know?
- Alex3917 8y agoPhalaris is very high in DMT, but it also has a lot of toxic chemicals in it. I'm guessing you'd die if you actually tried to smoke an extraction of it, but as far as I know no one has ever actually done it. That's where the theoretically part comes in.
- justinator 8y agoThe juniper tree in the back yard is currently producing these very small blue berries, that, when infused with vodka produce a very delightful beverage that tastes quite similar to gin! And like gin: seems to get you quite drunk.
- shezi 8y agoNot sure if you're ironic, but what you have is literally Gin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin
- sorokod 8y ago"The reason we have invasive species is because they came from somewhere else" Everything came from " somewhere else" if you take the long view.