It's not really that weird, root beer used to be made using sassafras bark and yeah that's toxic in large amounts too.
Also fun fact, you can eat the inner bark of most pine trees, particularly white pines. It doesn't taste great but it could easily be a source of food in an emergency.
Every dust is sawdust after you see it.
I saw dust and then I clooose myyy eyyyyesss
We gotta crime seen here!
Daaad! 🙄
If you witnessed a toothed cutting implement in action, you saw a saw saw.
Boooooooooo
It blows my mind that cinnamon trees are a real thing. I can go walk through a cinnamon forest!? Wtf, how is that real? That's some CandyLand/Narnia shit.
I always wondered how a cinnamon forest would smell.
Like chicken, of course.
Much like all forests
Everything is toxic in large amounts, even water
Because our water is basically all dihydrogen monoxide at this point. We're so fucked.
Our water is becoming increasingly less dihydrogen monoxide and more micro plastics. Thats why we're fucked
Consume too much? Dead.
Inhale too much? Dead.
Go too deep into it? Dead.
We really should be regulating the stuff.
what are kidneys for then ?!!
What did the Jamaican priest say to the thief stealing from the church?
(In Jamaican accent) "You're a cinna mon"
Hue hue hue
As a forager I don't see anything wrong with eating a tree... As long I'm 200% sure what kind tree I'm eating.
All bark
Oh I’m old enough to remember the cinnamon challenge… it definitely has a bite
I mean I don't think you have to be that old to remember the cinnamon challenge. It took off in popularity in the early 2010 so about 10-15 years ago.
If sawdust made my yeasted enriched dough taste awesome I'd be putting it on there too.
Oh yeah? Well technically some really expensive coffee brands that people pay a lot for have coffee beans that went through the digestive systems of lemur-lookalike creatures, so you're paying tons to drink poo water.
Also bananas and tomatoes are berries.
Well, actually... it's ground into a powder, rather than the byproduct of sawing. I don't think it counts.
A bit of instant coffee in the bottom of a bowl.
Add 120g of frozen blueberries.
Add a sprinkling of roasted cashews.
Add some whole milk. (Or, heavy cream if you're feeling thin that day.)
Top with a generous poof of cinnamon powder, and a tiny bit of sugar.
Stir and enjoy.
Shredded cheese has cellulose (basically sawdust). It’s added to keep the cheese from sticking together. Or that’s my understanding.
It's actually potato starch.
Sawdust isn't just cellulose. Wood is a matrix of cellulose fibers bound together by a tougher compound called lignin. While lignin isn't particularly toxic, you wouldn't want to eat it.
Fun fact, a lot of the process of making paper is for removing the lignin, only the cellulose is useful for making paper. And grasses like bamboo have a higher ratio of cellulose to lignin, so it's better for making paper
Its not always potato starch though.
I mostly know this because my daughter is allergic to potatos so we have to only get certain brands of cheese.
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