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  • From: Russ Grayson <pacedge@magna.com.au>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Food in the suburbs - wild, feral and cultivated
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 12:50:37 +1000

On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 03:56 PM, georg parlow wrote:
hi russ:

pigface (Carpobrotus spp: edible part the swollen
base of the flower and the triangular leaf - not good eating

tastes differ. the year i spent in oz i was always happy to get to the coast
for the carpobrotus tucker - i love this sweetish-salty taste. (since this
was on the south coast of west australia it might have been a different
species).

Yes, there's more than one species. My experience is with bushfoods that, as they have not been selected for good eating qualities, you experience different tastes with them, the taste can be variable.

What I should have said was that I was speaking for my own experience and generally. I have tasted quite a good specimen picked at Ballina on the NSW north coast. Not so the leaf though.

so rather than discrediting a species with the apparently
objective statement "IT is no good eating" i would recomment to resort to an
obviously subjective one, like "I dont like it". tastes are as different as
people and their changing (nutritional) needs.

Absolutely right.

Taste is such a subjective phenomenon that we must assume that when a taste preference is stated that it refers to the particular taste preferences of the individual.

...Russ Grayson





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