Chinese: "Why tf is white ppl food so awful??"

  • CriticalResist8 [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    That's too bougie for most people (and you also have to be careful not to confuse it with lily of the valley), what you want is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliaria_petiolata haha

    I learned of that plant a few years ago from a botanist friend. You should harvest the leaves in early to mid spring and they smell exactly like garlic. The one time I went to collect some it was already late spring and they tasted too bitter to use (I tried making pesto). Used to be a very serf-friendly plant back in medieval times because it grows everywhere, peasants would go into the forest and other common grounds to forage for it on the daily.