There was a Facebook post this morning that made me cringe. A girl found a tall flower growing in the yard of her fairly-new house, happily assumed it was garlic, and decided to eat the bulb. She posted a picture of herself and her dog with her pungent half-consumed garlic. It's giant allium, not garlic. Technically edible but so strong it can cause vomiting, and it's toxic to dogs. What person would willy-nilly decide to eat something she can't identify? And most of the people commenting on her post were just as clueless, cheering her on and congratulating her on her amazing garlic.
If you don't know what you're doing, folks, don't do it. I mean, yes, everything is edible...at least once. But it's better to educate yourself before risking your health/life. I'm all for foraging, but do some research...
It reminds me of a story a friend told me about her grandmother, who thought the sack of daffodil bulbs was a sack of shallots. She cooked them up and put herself and her husband in the hospital.
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