The wood of the yacaratiá tree is served as a delicacy in Argentinian restaurants. The wood is soaked in honey or syrup and is also available in chocolate bonbons or in flavored jams with sawdust. The wood is soft and fibrous and the taste has been compared to chestnuts.[2]
Sounds delicious. just some fiber with sweets
Its bark is better than its bite
Isn't cinnamon an edible bark too?
Yes, the xitter replier fucked up. it's the actual wood being eaten as a delicacy in Argentina, not the bark. Not a new thing, like OP says.
Doing the cinnamon challenge to prove 
is good actually /s
Yeah but it is a funny bit towards Captain Ancap over there sort of. Also can anyone chime in on how the edible wood is?
The wood is soft and fibrous and the taste has been compared to chestnuts.
i would have guessed that "wood" is too strongly defined by all of its indigestible structural shit like lignin to the point that "wood" and "edible" are mutually exclusive, but apparently this one tree just happens to... not use lignin for some reason? pretty neat
Yeah no cellulose at all basically makes the bark taste like a nutty semi sweet tofu
i'm mostly just surprised that it's still considered "wood" at that point instead of some other kind of plant part
Taxonomy is a hell of a drug
I mean what else would it be? It's vascular tissue from a tree, it's a type of papaya tree.
i only know enough to get myself in trouble
that sounds awesome what the fuck
Fr I need to know now
Edit: apparently it's like very soft buttery chestnuts, and are commonly mixed with jam. Has a kind of tofu like texture
https://www.instagram.com/p/DIl3PAkRqDg/
Video of someone prepping it
kind of tofu like texture
Allegedly the reason half of people i ask won't eat tofu but i think they're just fucking nerds mostly
It's a nice treat, plus it's produced and sold near the Iguazu falls region so two reasons to go there.
Sorry @RNAi@hexbear.net, i have seen like 10 different curis about argentinians eating donkeys and wood, thats now your national identity im afraid
spoiler
I think stray cats aren't actually a problem here considering our native cat wild species
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bark_bread
During the 18th and early 19th centuries, Northern Europe experienced several very bad years of crop failure, particularly during the Little Ice Age of the mid-18th century. The grain harvest was badly affected, and creative solutions to make the flour last longer were introduced. In 1742, samples of "emergency bread" were sent from Kristiansand, Norway, to the Royal Administration in Copenhagen, including bark bread, bread made from grainless husks and bread made from burned bones.
Don't tell 
or he might get some ideas for what do with the poor
The last time bark bread was used as famine food in Norway was during the Napoleonic Wars. The introduction of the potato as a staple crop gave the farmers alternative crops when grain production failed, so that bark bread and moss cakes were no longer needed. ... in Finland, pettuleipä (literally "pinewood-bark bread", made with cambium [phloem] flour) was eaten in Finland as an emergency food when there has been a shortage of food, especially during the Great Famine of the 1690s,[7] during the second famine of the 1860s, and, most recently, during the 1918 civil war
Libertarianism is in good company
looks at can of bamboo shoots
uhhhhh i technically don't know what bamboo is
Bamboo is a grass
Me gnawing on a palm tree
YEAH! It’s grass!
Botanically speaking, that's not wood
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