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Hands up who has ever eaten anything from that list!
People from other continents always surprise me with various fruits they taken for granted their entire life, but I've never heard about, and vice-versa.
Hands up who has ever eaten anything from that list!
Hands up who has ever eaten anything from that list!
People eat Horseshoe Crabs? No way, but their precious blood give me
Seeing my neighbors gathering ginkgo nuts made me curious enough to try them, and I waded right in without understanding the risks! TLDR— they're not a great food source. It's yet another one of those cases where you have to wonder what "delicacy" means. The actual fruit (looks like a rotten plum, smells terrible) has ginkgolic acids which cause contact dermatitis (think poison ivy). Then the nuts themselves contain…
Lots of food is like this, for example mangoes.
Meat
I'm finding it surprisingly hard to find sources for known age of species - is that information collected somewhere? Or is it something we often just don't know because of how sparse the fossil record is?
Wondering because of trying to look up the age of fern species I do eat (no cinnamon fern near me) and I can't find out.
Hands up who has ever eaten anything from that list!
I think this might say more about your geographic location than you think :) People from other continents always surprise me with various fruits they taken for granted their entire life, but I've never heard about, and vice-versa.
Clearly, for instance Welwitschia (1) listed. I think this says a lot about location.
It's a fascinating plant, but it is an endangered species, endemic to the Namib desert. And as far as I know, not that commonly eaten.