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That does strike me as the definition of edible, agreed. What's the misnomer? Red? Earth? "Edible dye" is a common thing to say; that's what this is, happens t
by samatman 5y ago
That does strike me as the definition of edible, agreed. What's the misnomer? Red? Earth?
"Edible dye" is a common thing to say; that's what this is, happens to be a local dirt. Lac is another thing I'd call edible, rather than, say, delicious. There are a few.
- hn_throwaway_99 5y agoBecause the article makes it sound like there is something special about this red earth that makes it edible: > But only one soil, gelak, is edible and a critical ingredient in the island’s local cuisine. Where my guess is pretty much all the soil is "edible", it just doesn't have the pretty dyeing properties that gelak does.