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Huh, always had Beavers down as ThinkPad T-Series users…

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To be fair like every good joke i stole this one

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We gotta keep it from being upvoted too far

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don’t beavers eat wood

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Cinnamon and sumac are two common spices that are made from grinding up tree bark.

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Also ginger.

And technically wormwood too, although that’s more you drinking water that is soaked into wood.

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Ginger is a root, maybe you’re thinking of something else?

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Eh what is a root if not wood that is covered in dirt

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I think most would consider most tree roots to be “woody”

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The root of a tree. Made of wood.

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You using a different kind of sumac than the rest of us? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumac#In_food

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I stand corrected on that one. I assumed it was sumac bark, and you know what they say about assumption. It makes an ass out of u and mption.

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The bit about powdered sumac (bark?) being a powerful dye for marble is pretty interesting. I wish there was an example photo.

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That’s what whiskey is for

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And smoking anything, it’s definitely part of food as a taste just not the wood it self as an ingredient.

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Being used to make the fire/smoke that cooks the food is a really good point, wood is definitely food adjacent even if it’s not strictly edible.

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It what? Who thinks wood smells edible?

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We burn different kinds of wood under our food to make it taste like that wood. Mesquite, apple, hickory, all come to mind. Wood smells really good.

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Maple smells like sugar when cut. Maple syrup used to be made of the sap.

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it still is?

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It still is, but it used to, too.

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Only the expensive luxury stuff. The kind sold in tourist traps. Most maple syrup sold in stores is flavored corn syrup, which keeps the price down.

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My friend Winona for one

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The big brown beaver?

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Maple syrup is tree blood. Kind like tree vampirism.

I don’t think wood smells like food. But I wonder… apparently termites have a bunch of gut bacteria to digest wood. Maybe if you eat raw termites and bark beetles, you can then eat some sawdust. If you continue the process eventually you may be able to eat wood or paper with your own gut biome. Maybe start with a termite, sawdust, and banana smoothie and move up from there. Best of luck.

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5/7 with rice. Thank you for the suggestion.

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A grading scale like no other

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