What I learned today - you can eat Kudzu

[underpants]

I was today years old ….

You can eat the root as you would other root vegetables, like potatoes or rutabagas. Kudzu roots can be dried and ground into a powder, which some people use as breading for fried foods or as a thickener for soups and sauces. What's more, the kudzu plant leaves, vine tips, and purple flower blossoms are also edible.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/kudzu-root

[mainer]

1. If a restaurant offered it, I'd certainly try it

I'd love to know what it tastes like.

[underpants]

2. It tastes like

Southern agriculture and interstate exhaust I’d guess.

[DBoon]

3. I am bullish on Kudzu. It's going places!

[underpants]

5. 😆👍

[NNadir]

12. Oh oh. Here we go again.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. Kudzu frightens me! 😱

[underpants]

7. Even if it's fully frosted?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

8. Even! 😱

[underpants]

9. Mmmm

Kudzu pop tarts.

https://giphy.com/gifs/season-9-the-simpsons-9x21-xT5LMQ2BWhY9uZAhiM

[mitch96]

6. It's used in Japanese cooking as a thicker. Kinda expensive if you buy it in specialty stores aka Japanese arrowroot.nt

[Shermann]

10. Let me know when they figure out how to fry it! nt

[underpants]

11. Are we talking like kale or sticks of butter?

Kale can be fried in a pan I’d think. Butter of course should be deep fat fried. But you knew that.