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DentonDoc wrote on Nov 7^th, 2010 at 7:43pm:


Young dandelion leaves make excellent salad. And they seem to grow wild everywhere !! You want to be sure they haven't been sprayed with pesticide/herbicides before picking though.

marlin55388 wrote on Nov 30^th, 2010 at 11:42pm:

Heh, not a high priority to try.  I do see it everywhere.

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Mice to men draw your own conclusions

starwatcher wrote on Nov 28^th, 2010 at 9:31pm:

Yes, I'd also seen at least one refernce to rock tripe being used as a purge.  (Not exactly what I'm looking for to help sustain me in an emergency situation.)  Still, I've seen both rock tripe and reindeer moss being used as a survival food ... after 4 or 5 days, you might be hungry enough to give it a try.

But one wonders where Franklin found rock tripe on an ARTIC expedition?  

dd

MMMMMMMM salad w/ blood dressing...not lichen

DentonDoc wrote on Nov 26^th, 2010 at 11:29pm:


Sparky says (Mark Stensaas) in Canoe Country Flora; "Rock tripe has a completely undeserved reputation as an edible lichen." Franklin Arctic expedition ate it but they suffered from bowel complaints and nausea.

He also says that reindeer lichen, as human food, "may be more palatable after partial digestion in the grazing ungulates gut."  Arctic inhabitants mix partial digested lichens with the animals blood.

Of course if we were eating a caribou, moose or deer; we probably wouldn't need to eat the lichen, except for a salad entree  

starwatcher

AH no.....I do use litmus though when I want to know the pH of dirt.  

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High in fiber though; but you know what they say about transport time!...Thank goodness for big leaf aster

Anyone try rock tripe?  Caribou moss? 

Not like they have a lot of calories, but then you'd typically not have to spend many calories finding/harvesting.

dd