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I'm in western washington and some people (not me) do eat the nettles. The blackberries are of course, delicious and well used. Always a good idea to pick above
by toast0 1y ago
I'm in western washington and some people (not me) do eat the nettles. The blackberries are of course, delicious and well used. Always a good idea to pick above waist height of dogs. ;)
- zeristor 1y agoOr have small dogs.
- toast0 1y agoThese blackberries are everywhere so if you're walking down the road in season, you'll be able to snack on them (and you'll find lots of people stopping to harvest them). Can't control the size of other people's dogs.
- oldestofsports 1y agoI was told as a child not to eat berries near roads due to being exposed to exhaust fumes, but never check if there is any science behind it.
- Earw0rm 1y agoThere was, due to lead compounds in vehicle exhaust. Nasty stuff. These days, tyre microplastics and diesel particulates are still a concern, but there's little hard science around the hazards of eating them in small quantities - there's microplastic in basically everything, to some degree, so you're not making it appreciably worse - and agricultural farm machinery is a worse diesel PM offender by far than a street's worth of modern cars.
- zeristor 1y agoSome commodity chocolate is dried out along the ride side, some heavy metal settling on from exhaust. One would hope that more expensive chocolate would have a value chain to show that it’s been dried in a proper manner. Nothing beats random sampling though.
- akulbe 1y agoI'm originally from W. WA. too, and I never heard about people eating them until I grew up. I remember dreading them when we'd go through the ravines with friends to our hideouts. :D