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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

uhhhhh what

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

I’m guessing it sort of came from the fact that we cook food with burning wood. Less so now, but burning wood meant cooked food for 200k years.

I don’t think wood smells like it is edible, but a fire can remind me of food through smell.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Maple syrup?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

No it doesn’t

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Liquid smoke has warning labels on it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm not sure I agree about the smell of wooe, but the cambium of many different tree species is perfectly edible. Have at it, my friend!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

All the 10s in my neighborhood love to gobble on my wood, though?

Edit: It was a joke. There are no 10s in my neighborhoods, and if there were, they would probably not choose to have intimate relations with me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Please don't make this reddit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Hey nobody's stopping you from gnawing on some cedar shavings my dude.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Call me weird, but I have never once salivated to the smell of any wood.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I spent the day making a planter box out of cedar, and it doesn't smell like food even a little.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

We can, and do, eat wood. It's listed as "cellulose" in the ingredients, and it's in everything. Your ice cream, your bread, probably up in yo closet doin your Mamma right now

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

That’s made from plants, including trees, but that’s not really what I’m talking about.

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