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Eating Yacaratiá wood was well known before all this shit but ok
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Yeah but it is a funny bit towards Captain Ancap over there sort of. Also can anyone chime in on how the edible wood is?
i would have guessed that "wood" is too strongly defined by all of its indigestible structural shit like lignin to the point that "wood" and "edible" are mutually exclusive, but apparently this one tree just happens to... not use lignin for some reason? pretty neat
Yeah no cellulose at all basically makes the bark taste like a nutty semi sweet tofu
i'm mostly just surprised that it's still considered "wood" at that point instead of some other kind of plant part
I mean what else would it be? It's vascular tissue from a tree, it's a type of papaya tree.
i only know enough to get myself in trouble
Taxonomy is a hell of a drug
that sounds awesome what the fuck
Fr I need to know now
Edit: apparently it's like very soft buttery chestnuts, and are commonly mixed with jam. Has a kind of tofu like texture
https://www.instagram.com/p/DIl3PAkRqDg/
Video of someone prepping it
Allegedly the reason half of people i ask won't eat tofu but i think they're just fucking nerds mostly
It's a nice treat, plus it's produced and sold near the Iguazu falls region so two reasons to go there.