Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2021/01/05/eat-your-christmas-tree.html
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Yule love the taste.
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Make everything taste like gin.
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That’s Euell.
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Pretty sure every tree I’ve ever bought was soaked in preservatives and sprayed with pesticides not approved for food crops
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Alternate title: James “Logan” Howlett’s Foraging for Retired Mutants
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Hard no.
Unless you can vouchsafe you’ve got an unsprayed tree, just skip this naive suggestion.
Pesticides used for ornamental plants have a far different set of standards to meet than conventionally grown food crops meant for [human] consumption.
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I planted a black spruce sapling in my front yard specifically so I could both have a Christmas tree next year and also make spruce beer.
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Was coming here to say that all cedar aren’t all toxic, the cedar berries of the juniper variety are what flavors gin.
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I always thought rosemary resembled pine needles. Am I thinking of the right thing?
rosemary has pinene, a chemical also found in pines (and parsley and dill and pot), but the plants aren’t closely related. ETA: Both are “evergreens”, plants that stay green throughout the year, but that’s not a taxonomic classification. I used to confuse evergreens and conifers, as it was a random gap in my knowledge. Was visiting my brother in California where they have live oaks, an evergreen oak, and he (who generally knows a lot less about plants than me), was pointing one out and saying it was an evergreen, but also an oak. I rolled my eyes and said, “no it’s winter, it’s an evergreen, evergreens have cones, oaks have acorns, and if you look here…”, and found myself pointing at a whole bunch of acorns. Oops. Live oaks are oaks.
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I have a friend that takes a quick camp trip to the desert every year after the holidays and they burn their tree in a fire ring. The videos are pretty cool.
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