the kudzu discussion that crossed my twitter is funny as someone who lives in the south

like i remember driving down backroads and both sides just being entirely green as that vine covered everything

i always wanted to try it but, yknow, no one harvests and eats it

from the description in the thread it sound tasty

and has so many damn uses, why are we not tapping into that?

I can only assume spite at this point at anger in how it's taken over so much

oh yeah def

i heard its been found all the way out in i think oregan at this point

and has, of course, crept north

but like instead of trying to kill it with poison and sending goats at it, we should be harvesting it and turning it into so much stuff

like we could have kudzu starch intead of corn but i guess big corn has the market cornered

yeah, that's part of the problem there

ngl the kudzu blossom jelly looks so good

its such a prety pink

OH that does look pretty

it reminds me of many forbidden snacks, but its not forbidden!

yes i wanna try and eat it as well i was so facinated by the thread

this is like the whole debate about eating carp. it's common in asia to eat it but in the states it's treated like a trash fish and like any invasive species, eating them would help decrease numbers.

yup

oh yeah i grew up eating carp, also american shad is trash fish on teh west coast but is a realtive of my fave fish from my parents country