Call me weird, but I have never once salivated to the smell of any wood.
weird.
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)
All shredded cheeses, I believe.
Many shredded cheeses are mixed with corn and/or potato starches rather than cellulose (which is not wood either)
Thanks for the info!
If you consider cellulose to be wood, sure. They don’t put actual wood in there.
What cellulose do they use then?
Cellulose can come from just about any type of plant. Cotton is almost entirely cellulose, for example.
I don’t know what their cellulose comes from, but saying cellulose is trees is like saying milk is cheese.
Thank God I can eat cheese to get my fill of wood for the day.
Mmm, anti caking agents…
I just call it laxative
There are plenty alcohols, like whiskey and wine, that are supposed to have “oaky” flavors due to the barrels they’re kept in.
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.
Yup. That’s the worst thing about the local authorities banning wood/coal (coal was wood …!) household fires. The absence of the smell.
Mind you same with BBQ. And there are no bears in these woods!
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!
No it doesn’t
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.
Ginger is a root, maybe you’re thinking of something else?
The root of a tree. Made of wood.
No, ginger is not a tree.
I think most would consider most tree roots to be “woody”
It’s not a tree root.
Is it woody?
It is not.
Eh what is a root if not wood that is covered in dirt
So is a potato wood? A carrot?
Ginger is not a tree. It’s a flowering plant.
A potato is not a flowering plant it’s a tuba, such as an onion. Totally different thing entirely to a bit of wood attached to a tree.
Potato plants absolutely have flowers. Have you ever grown one? Be careful with the potato flowers and fruits. They are poisonous nightshade.
And potato is a tuber but an onion is not. Both are flowering plants. So is ginger.
Ginger has nothing to do with ‘a bit of wood attached to a tree’ which is exactly my point.
Don’t be bringing brass instruments into this…
You using a different kind of sumac than the rest of us? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumac#In_food
The bit about powdered sumac (bark?) being a powerful dye for marble is pretty interesting. I wish there was an example photo.
I stand corrected on that one. I assumed it was sumac bark, and you know what they say about assumption. It makes an ass out of u and mption.
Please don’t make this reddit.
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.
Is this a thing? Why does he do it?
He believes there’s some health benefits to it
This sounds like a terrible idea in the long-term.
Wood is a renewable resource
Why? It’s basically just fiber.
Why wood he do such a thing?
Are you sure your friend isn’t just three beavers in a long coat?
A friend of mine doesn’t peel shrimp tails
🤢
I don’t peel shrimp tails either. I don’t eat shrimp.
Liquid smoke has warning labels on it
This comes to mind: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bark_bread
You can bake sawdust into bread lol https://youtu.be/MTC_ETWa3JA
Also if you believe the stories ive heard from pizza chains like Papa Johns and Domino’s, sawdust is regularly added to pizza dough to make it cheaper to produce
Or a Rice Crispy if you’d rather
Hey nobody’s stopping you from gnawing on some cedar shavings my dude.