"OPPOsaurus WRX" (opposaurus)
08/25/2020 at 18:07 • Filed to: None
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"OPPOsaurus WRX" (opposaurus)
08/25/2020 at 18:07 • Filed to: None | 1
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Just so you don’t run out and Chee on one, they are slightly toxic to humans until try are prepared. My daughter was asking if we could eat them and now I’m curious how they are. Apparently one of the popular dishes is accord brittle (like peanut brittle but with, you know, acorns). Have an angry deli slicer for your time.
HammerheadFistpunch
> OPPOsaurus WRX
08/25/2020 at 18:15 |
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Im confident that any food I can find lying on the ground without having to harvest isn’t going to be tasty.
Shoop
> OPPOsaurus WRX
08/25/2020 at 18:15 |
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I uh but one in 5tg grade and it was very bitter
TheRealBicycleBuck
> HammerheadFistpunch
08/25/2020 at 18:25 |
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Pecans are pretty good. We have to patrol the back yard so the dogs don’t get the pecans before we do.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> TheRealBicycleBuck
08/25/2020 at 18:25 |
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They are pretty gross until they are a pie.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> HammerheadFistpunch
08/25/2020 at 18:28 |
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Freshly shelled pecans are a great snack!
jminer
> OPPOsaurus WRX
08/25/2020 at 18:52 |
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I have, back in my days of youth I was obsessed with running away and living in the woods so I make acorn flour once and ate it.
I also have a funny story about eating Acorns involving a kid .
2 or 3 years ago I was taking a friend and his kid to go squirrel hunting for the first time, he was 10 if I recall correctly.
The kid hadn’t had a lot of exposure to the outdoors and was asking a ton of questions about this and that, which I answered gladly.
He got to the question of what do squirrels eat? I answered a lot of things, mostly nuts right now and most of them are Acorns with some Hickory Nuts and Walnuts where they can find them.
Kid: [ looked on the ground and found an acorn and picked it up ] Like this?
Me: Yes
Kid: W hat do they taste like ?
Me: [turn to father] He allergic to any nuts?
Father: No
Me: [leatherman comes out to crack acorn and hands acorn to kid] Taste it and let me know.
Kid then stared at it for like 30 seconds, gave it a few good sniffs, looked at his dad to confirm the ok, licked it and when nothing happened nibbled a little bit with his front teeth.
An uncooked acorn is very bitter and tastes terrible.
The kid promptly spit it out and exclaimed ‘Ewwww!’ and then went on to ask about if they really ate acorns followed by another 45 minutes of questions until he we got back to the car.
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> HammerheadFistpunch
08/25/2020 at 18:52 |
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Persimmons. They’re usually not ripe until they fall, and before they’re ripe they can be so horribly bitter that people who eat one never want to try another .
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> OPPOsaurus WRX
08/25/2020 at 19:04 |
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Yes with chestnuts roasting on on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose. Yuletide carols being sung by a choir a nd folks dressed up like Eskimos.
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OPPOsaurus WRX
> jminer
08/25/2020 at 19:07 |
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Haha sounds a lot like my kids
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> OPPOsaurus WRX
08/25/2020 at 19:17 |
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According g to my daughter, who knows her stuff regarding edible plants, acorns need to be either soaked in water, changing it often, or boiled to get the tannins out. They then can be ground into a flour. Not the best, but will do in a pinch.
barnie
> TheRealBicycleBuck
08/25/2020 at 20:00 |
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Mom had a few soft- shell pecan trees in the back yard (c oastal NC) . Ground would get covered with them on good years. 20-25 bushels sometimes! Local lumber mill had a cracking machine - just dump in the bagful and they’d come out with the shells just crac ked enough to peel.
Mom also had this cool antique basket on a stick ( 6" or so on a side) thing that had wires on the bottom like a pastry blender. Y ou just dropped the thing onto nuts on the ground and they came up thru the wires and sat in the basket. No grass, twigs, leaves, etc. When full, tip it into a sack. Didn’t have to bend down anymore.
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> OPPOsaurus WRX
08/25/2020 at 20:03 |
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Hi I think maybe you are suffering from acorn poisoning
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OPPOsaurus WRX
> Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
08/25/2020 at 20:33 |
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I wanna learn all the stuff and can and can’t eat. The thing I read talked about prep but not really how it tasted. I thought covering it in melted sugar would probably make it tasted ok. I definately saw the thing about soaking them. I guess it's a fairly important part
Just Jeepin'
> jminer
08/25/2020 at 20:38 |
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As I recall, the tannin/bitterness level of an acorn depends on the type of oak. Squirrels will bury the bitter ones (red oak?) for multiple seasons to let the tannin leach out.
(These are distant recollections and thus may be entirely inaccurate.)
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Just Jeepin'
> OPPOsaurus WRX
08/25/2020 at 20:39 |
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Make sure you know red vs white oak acorns. I believe that the red oak acorns are much more bitter due to the tannin.
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> HammerheadFistpunch
08/25/2020 at 20:44 |
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This is the second food related take I've read today on Oppo that is just plain bad
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> OPPOsaurus WRX
08/25/2020 at 22:33 |
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That is the most off-road that deli slicer has ever been.
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> jminer
08/25/2020 at 22:35 |
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I once ate a raw turnip that didn’t burn in a bonfire. It tasted not much worse than some grilled vegetables I’ve had. A little too smokey.
I’m glad I had more than one place to go as a kid to wander in a semi rural environment since I never did Scouts. I got in my creek exploration time early on.