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Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.”

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    • burgersc12@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This sounds like torture

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      • WarlockLawyer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Don’t worry they have plenty of cider to help it go down

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  • dumples@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nettles are easily removed of their stinging property by drying or cooking. Light streaming even does it

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    • Montagge@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I blanch it and use it as a spinach substitute

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    • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So you’re saying if I combine raw milk with raw nettles I’ll be a god?

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      • dumples@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You need more rawness but you are close

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    • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What kind of streams work best? Gaming streams? Just chatting?

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      • dumples@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hot streams mostly. So hot it’s boiling. If I would be more specific I would say steam streams.

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    • GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nettle tea is also really good for swelling and chronic pain, at least according to my grandfather and his friends that have used it. My grandpa did go to medical school so I tend to trust him, but it was also in the 60s and he calls tattooing and piercings “psychosomatic self flagellation” so take it for what you will.

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      • dumples@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They are super high in vitamins and minerals. Most wild foraged and grown herbs have more vitamins and minerals per oz than even cultivated super foods like spinach. You can even get most from brewing it in a tea

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  • Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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?

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  • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re also delicious. One of my favorite spring greens back in Europe. Can’t buy them in the US though.

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    • bamfic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They are an invasive weed and are everywhere in the pacific northwest

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      • EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They’re invasive here too in the UK. Some people are just clever/nuts enough to eat that invasive plant.

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  • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Stinging nettle tea goes hard I hear

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  • bi_tux@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    now I have to think of salad fingers

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    *"What if we boned under the nettle bouquet shrub?

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  • rain_worl@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    481 grams of calcium per 100 grams of nettle

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  • Pippipartner@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Aww Yiss spank that skeleton ass with dat nettle bush! 🥵

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