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Acorns taste bad according to all accounts, which is why people don't generally eat them, until famine arrives.
by riffraff 4y ago
Acorns taste bad according to all accounts, which is why people don't generally eat them, until famine arrives.
- Baeocystin 4y agoI've had some safely-prepared acorn flour* bread. It has a distinctive flavor. Earthy, kind of like a walnut. But it isn't bitter. I could see it being a staple without complaint. *I don't know which species of Oak. Common ones in the Bay Area, I know that much.
- pvaldes 4y agoThere are sweet acorns also that are perfectly edible, in the same way as there are sweet and bitter almonds