Free Food Is All Around, You Just Have to Learn to Forage for It

Food & Wine ^ | February 23, 2022 | Maddy Sweitzer-Lammé

[Carriage Hill]

Eat bugs...

[PGR88]

My friends and I would go to the Holiday Inn near our apartment. Free happy-hour buffet with 1 drink purchase.

The manager eventually told us to not come back.

[Dr. Sivana]

We retrieve oranges and grapefruit from trees just dropping them on the ground here in Phoenix. Unfortunately, some of the orange trees have nasty tasting fruit.

[Magnum44]

he coaxes uncertain guests to open their minds and palates as they sample drinks largely made from unexpected ingredients

[duckman]

Leave the bugs, take the cannoli. God Father Pt1.

[pnut22]

Had a few paw paw trees here in Ohio. They are definitely banana tasting. Problem is they are like a slimy smooshed banana full of big seeds. They also have to be perfectly ripe and that lasts about 2 days.

[Deaf Smith]

Two paragraphs in and I'm still expecting dumpster diving.

Even with the old hippy reference.

[Wissa]

Buffalo-style milkweed pods, daylily blossom quesadillas, dandelion blossom fritters, purslane, chickweed, lambsquarters, wild plum jam, teas made from goldenrod, sumac, creeping charlie, pineapple weed, dandelion root. All very good, and good for you.

[teeman8r]

damn... i was just gonna say in before the dumpster diving reference

[Leep]

Often wild edibles have 3-5 times the nutrients then their cultivated cousins.

[Scarlett156]

Where o where o where is Elija?
Where o where o where is Elija?
Where o where o where is Elija?
Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Shades of Euell Gibbons.

https://wildfoodadventures.com/about/john-kallas/wild-food-adventurer/wfa-by-volumeyear/euell-gibbons/

[AppyPappy]

I found some good ramp spots nearby

[Born in 1950]

I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes..

[JBW1949]

There was a bar across from Central Park that had snacks (crackers, cheese, ham chunks, peanuts, etc) in containers along the bar...As long as you had a drink in front of you, you could eat from them...We’d sit there with one drink and eat for half an hour and get filled...LOL

[JBW1949]

Oh, yeah...Ramps all over the East Tennessee mountains...

[headsonpikes]

I prefer to eat wild edibles processed by a moose.

[rlmorel]

Manson Girls.

[avenir]

Childs and his wife also opened a pizza joint that's behind the restaurant, looks gooood!