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[–] 33 points 4 months ago (10 children)

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?

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  • [–] 30 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

    The wood is soft and fibrous and the taste has been compared to chestnuts.

    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

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    Yeah no cellulose at all basically makes the bark taste like a nutty semi sweet tofu

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    i'm mostly just surprised that it's still considered "wood" at that point instead of some other kind of plant part

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 29 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Sorry @RNAi@hexbear.net, i have seen like 10 different curis about argentinians eating donkeys and wood, thats now your national identity im afraid

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Isn't cinnamon an edible bark too?

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago*

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bark_bread

    During the 18th and early 19th centuries, Northern Europe experienced several very bad years of crop failure, particularly during the Little Ice Age of the mid-18th century. The grain harvest was badly affected, and creative solutions to make the flour last longer were introduced. In 1742, samples of "emergency bread" were sent from Kristiansand, Norway, to the Royal Administration in Copenhagen, including bark bread, bread made from grainless husks and bread made from burned bones.

    Don't tell ancaptain or he might get some ideas for what do with the poor

    The last time bark bread was used as famine food in Norway was during the Napoleonic Wars. The introduction of the potato as a staple crop gave the farmers alternative crops when grain production failed, so that bark bread and moss cakes were no longer needed. ... in Finland, pettuleipä (literally "pinewood-bark bread", made with cambium [phloem] flour) was eaten in Finland as an emergency food when there has been a shortage of food, especially during the Great Famine of the 1690s,[7] during the second famine of the 1860s, and, most recently, during the 1918 civil war

    Libertarianism is in good company

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    looks at can of bamboo shoots

    uhhhhh i technically don't know what bamboo is

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