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In Avengers: Endgame, there is a graphic sex scene between Scarlet Witch and Captain Marvel. This is a subtle nod to the fact that I torrented the wrong movie.

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thinking about this today

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What do you mean there are different types

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Little Yellow Bastards! They aren’t all dandelions, but people read them as such, enough that this image unlocked a deep and ancient well of rage in me.

I have a whole ESSAY inside of me about the unpalatability of dandelions and the Great Crunchy Conspiracy about this. This little fun fact, “you can eat dandelions 😇” , repeated without elaboration, has bothered me since I was 9 YEARS OLD. I have only ever read one article brave enough to tackle this conspiracy, which really addresses how dandelions aren’t particularly edible, and the elaborate steps you need to take to make them so. I have THEORIES AND HOMEWORK TO GIVE YOU ABOUT THIS TOPIC. but everyone else, apart from me and this one brave foraging guy in a magazine, just mechanically repeats the idea that dandelions are yummy, and you should absolutely rip them up and eat them right now. Raw, apparently! From the concrete sidewalk! As if that isn’t a deranged thing to encourage even if it was delicious (which it won’t be.)

Anyway!! Looking at this picture, which includes a strain of plants called “false dandelions,” as well as some toxic plants, it just goes to show how dumb this advice is. It is is absurd how people keep on repeating this ✨✨fun dandelion fact✨✨ without disclaimers/qualifiers/instructions. Do you think the general public can look at Little Yellow Bastards with serrated leaves and tell which ones taste like lettuce, and which ones have RECENTLY KILLED PEOPLE? Can the average Joe look at these picture and sort with confidence the dandelions from the not-dandelions? I’m not actually that convinced. I’ve met the public. The public are absolutely reading those little instagram posts and sidebars in Natural Parenting magazine, they are absolutely snacking on slightly toxic weeds, and feeling guilty for not liking them, and keeping their true feelings a secret.

GOD so much of crunchy politics is just sentimental SHADOWBOXING with our own REFLECTIONS and nothing to do with actual plants!! I like dandelions but they’re pissing me off lately !!!

(A hilarious joke, they’re a diuretic with the English folk name of piss-the-bed.)

(It’s coltsfoot that’s killed people.)

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I’m sorry but if you’re confusing this plant

(coltsfoot)

with this plant

(dandelion)

And you confused these 2 plants so throughly and thoughtlessly **you ate the wrong one** then maybe you deserve to get poisoned? A little?

It’s like people who find and eat false morels. How? They’re nothing alike. I don’t even think they grow in the same seasons.

How did you do this?

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Hahaha!

So… here’s this post with lots of pictures of Little Yellow Bastards (aster-type flowers that look similar) with people innocently and understandably commenting, thinking that they’re all dandelions. It’s understandable! There’s nothing wrong with being confused! (And tbh it is not a poison-worthy sin for people to be confused.)

Then there’s me saying, “actually, we should reconsider how we make the common statement that ✨dandelions are edible✨ because (leaving aside all kinds of foraging best practices that aren’t getting passed on in those posts) this is probably confusing, given the evidence right in front of us that these flowers look a lot like dandelions to a decent amount of people. The public are demonstrably not equipped for this: we need to be slapping disclaimers on this stuff, instead of uncritically repeating nonspecific foraging advice. After all, some of these Little Yellow Bastard flowers are toxic.”

So if you take away from this that I’ve eaten coltsfoot…

and your stance is that people who make such silly unobservant mistakes in “reading the leaves” deserve to be poisoned … but you only said that because you, yourself, were making a mistake in your reading of a post right in front of you…

You’re leaving yourself open to people telling YOU to get poisoned! You made a mistake, mate! That’s what happens!

Nah, nobody deserves to get poisoned for making a mistake. (And I’ve never eaten coltsfoot.) But anyway! I think that we have to be more thoughtful in how we make these statements about things being edible, ESPECIALLY with common plants that people might feel overconfident about and ESPECIALLY with foraging advice in general. Because look at the top of the post! “everyone knows what a dandelion looks like” is not such a safe assumption!

We need to check and not assume that everyone has the same knowledge, OR even that they can read at the same level.

Since i mentioned that dandelions are a diuretic I will be disappointed if someone doesn’t accuse me of pissing on the poor.

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Just a couple of dudes reminding you that Aldis Hodge is, in fact, the sexiest man alive. In addition to being a horologist, he's also a painter and a violinist. He also went to school for architecture.