There’s a nettle eating championship in Dorset England.
There was apparently a new record set this year.
Ms Hodges, who travelled from Wales, said she was surprised and happy to have won again, although her hands were still painful. “My voice is also an octave or two deeper and I’m a bit huskier,” she said. "I did really sting the inside of my mouth and your tongue goes a really funny colour but I was concentrating more on the pain in my hands, so I probably forgot about my mouth. “The dryness is the tricky thing, and chewing them. I think it depends what the weather has been doing - this year they have been a bit hard to chew.”
This sounds like torture
Don’t worry they have plenty of cider to help it go down
The chinese nettle is also the same plant that makes ramie fabric, which is like linen, but more durable. It’s been around for thousands of years, which I think is cool.
Clothes were made from nettles in medieval europe. And paper from old clothes.
Wait, was it nettles or old clothes that were considered critical ressource (for administration) and trading restricted?
They’re also delicious. One of my favorite spring greens back in Europe. Can’t buy them in the US though.
They are an invasive weed and are everywhere in the pacific northwest
They’re invasive here too in the UK. Some people are just clever/nuts enough to eat that invasive plant.
Stinging nettle tea goes hard I hear
now I have to think of salad fingers
“What if we boned under the nettle
bouquetshrub?”481 grams of calcium per 100 grams of nettle
