sardonic soup

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• earlgrey0@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But wouldn’t that change the flavor? You wouldn’t get the authentic experience that way.

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  • Almonds@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My chemistry prof would repeat over and over that bitter is poison. Bitter is one of my favorite flavor types, after spicy. If I lived before the internet I totally would have died after eating a tasty salad of poison xD

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    • Contramuffin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Dose makes the poison. Most bitter flavors (that you eat) aren’t really meant to discourage you from eating them, it’s really meant for insects.

      Plant: I will make an unappetizing flavor to prevent myself from getting eaten

      Humans: finally, some good fucking food

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    • earlgrey0@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Almonds over here telling everyone that the poison plant is totally fine and tasty! xD

      I agree though bitter is part of the spice of life and a very good flavor

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• Steve@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Try the impossible nightshade burger

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  • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you’re really looking to spit in the eyes of Death:

    Mince some destroying angel and deadly webcap into a nice mushroom ranch, sliver some bitter almonds and untreated cashew nuts over a nice hemlock cress with some of the shaved hemlock roots mixed in with some thinly sliced manchineel apple and add in some belladonna berries on the top for additional sweetness. From what I understand, all of those actually taste pretty decent, so without the deadly poisons this’d be a bomb salad.

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  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nightshade salad is just salsa

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  the poison is the point on a lot of the delicious stuff we eat

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Potatoes and tomatoes are from nightshade.

    Almonds contain arsenic.

    Cherries contain cyanide.

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  • anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think we already have that, it’s called grass

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• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What we really need is to get rid of spines and thorns in blackberry bushes.

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  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    we already have thornless blackberry varieties…

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  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’d have so many blackberry bushes in the backyard if they stopped trying to eat my hands!

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• nfamwap@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why can’t they use genetic engineering to make a tree that can absorb like 100x more CO2 than any other tree? Like, are they even trying?

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  • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because the tree would need to grow 100x as big. People often forget, that the carbon needs to go somewhere and in a tree that is mostly the wood.
    A fully grown forest is just full and can’t take up more CO2 unless you take some wood out. That wood need to be used in construction or turned into charcoal and buried to make sure it can’t be turned back into CO2 by rotting.

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A certain amount of bitter is needed to fend off the insects.

  I guess it’s just a choice of what kind and what amount of bitterness is in the plants.

  Maybe you can remove the original poison and replace it with a different kind of poison that’s non-toxic to humans, but still fends of other potential eaters.

  Just floating ideas here, but maybe a type of poison exists that can be deactivated by cooking the plants? That way, it could be eaten by humans, but would still fend off other invaders.

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