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Reminds me of that YouTuber that keeps turning wood into ice cream.
NileRed, I assume?
Isn't that another? I remember a Youtuber who made living rat neurons play DOOM. He also made meat leaves, btw. And socks from milk.
That's the Thought Emporium
This YouTuber was the one I had in mind but NileRed is another great one.
The next paragraph adds the explanation, why its wood is edible:
It is in the Caricaceae (Papaya family) and apparently a pioneer species just like papaya trees. No wonder it is mostly water and hardly any lignin!
Lignan deez nuts!
Sorry
Not a chance they can make a restaurant like this in Argentina. They are one of the most reluctant people to try different foods.
Also I'm double sceptical since the same article says it grows in tropical forests in Nicaragua etc, and Argentina has a single smallish area that could be called tropical forest, and that would be a stretch.
Really? I'm surprised.
I totally agree, you can't get most Argentines to eat anything different from milanesas, pasta and asado. Drinks too, you get hundreds if not thousands of different soft drinks and juices in other countries, here its just cola, fanta and sprite kind of beverages.
And I never heard of wood being served in restaurants.
Persimmons are like 40% lignin by weight. They are the largest cause of phytobezoars.
Or the "How Much Sawdust Can You Put In A Rice Crispy?" video where they loosely tested how many percent of a rice crispy could be replaced by sawdust.
what youtuber