You can bake sawdust into bread lol https://youtu.be/MTC_ETWa3JA
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For the majority of human history, we've eaten around wood (around a campfire, a hearth, etc), it makes sense it would become intertwined with our food palette
That's what whiskey is for
And smoking anything, it's definitely part of food as a taste just not the wood it self as an ingredient.
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Cinnamon and sumac are two common spices that are made from grinding up tree bark.
Also ginger.
And technically wormwood too, although that's more you drinking water that is soaked into wood.
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You can. I know a guy who eats a birch log every year. He literally sits on the couch pulling splinters from the log and chews on them while watching tv. He also grinds his egg shells and mixes with oatmeal.
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There are plenty alcohols, like whiskey and wine, that are supposed to have "oaky" flavors due to the barrels they're kept in.
is your pizza made of.... wood?
OP confirmed for beaver with dental issues.
It might interest you to know that we do eat wood when we eat that sprinkled parmesan or romano cheese in the plastic containers: It contains wood to prevent the cheese from clumping (and it counts as fiber)
Thank God I can eat cheese to get my fill of wood for the day.
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who smells wood and thinks "you know what? I want to slap that pine tree on my pancake"?
Maybe not a pine tree, but I love birch beer. My parents cut down an old birch tree years ago, and it smelled AWESOME!
Beavers.
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If you've eaten shredded cheese from the store, then you've eaten wood.
Eating shredded cheese and wood is certainly a lifestyle
Wood is notoriously hard to digest. After wood evolved, it took millions of years before funghi and bacteria evolved the ability to decompose it. And that's why we have oil now.
There was a point during that millions of years where there were areas of thousands of feet deep layers of dead trees. It still boggles my mind.
Would you be willing to find a good article explaining this further? This sounds really neat and I'd like to know how scientists figured this out :O
Coal, not oil, but it's still an interesting fact.
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This should be an unpopular opinion instead, because almost no one associates the smell with a desire to eat it.
Skill issue.
Have you ever made love to a greased up knot in a tree trunk?
Tek-knight has
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That's what coffee is for.
I'm... not so sure about this. Also we can eat paper and that's just mashed up wood, right?
We can consume it, but we can’t digest it.
Also, we should consume it (or other types of dietary fibre)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3614039/
Dietary fibre is that part of plant material in the diet which is resistant to enzymatic digestion which includes cellulose, noncellulosic polysaccharides such as hemicellulose, pectic substances, gums, mucilages and a non-carbohydrate component lignin. The diets rich in fibre such as cereals, nuts, fruits and vegetables have a positive effect on health since their consumption has been related to decreased incidence of several diseases. Dietary fibre can be used in various functional foods like bakery, drinks, beverages and meat products. Influence of different processing treatments (like extrusion-cooking, canning, grinding, boiling, frying) alters the physico- chemical properties of dietary fibre and improves their functionality. Dietary fibre can be determined by different methods, mainly by: enzymic gravimetric and enzymic—chemical methods. This paper presents the recent developments in the extraction, applications and functions of dietary fibre in different food products.
Not that we should go around gnawing on wood like beavers, but maybe that's why some indigestible foods seem like we should be able to eat it
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