Ah, dandelions! (We also grew up knowing their alternate names of “pee your bed”) As long as you cut the central spines out of the leaves and only use the newest and freshest leaves tehy are great as part of a mixed salad or you can wilt them in to curries etc a la saag dishes.
Traditionally dandelion heads for use in making dandelion wine should be picked on Saint George’s day for best results.
Also dandelion milk has been utilised as an ersatz rubber latex, and according to my old granny a long long time ago you can also use them in the seed stage for telling the time back in the days before you could buy a quartz wristwatch for the price of a pork pie, when the ludicrous inaccuracy of the process was perhaps a teensy bit less obvious!
The Tea Party didn’t exist back when this strip was first published but that doesn’t matter to you, does it? Any excuse to throw out more of your wackadoo nonsense….
You just never stop with the hate, do you? Please, please, PLEASE get back on your meds.
Back in the 60’s the Stones had a whimsical song called “Dandelion” that was mistakenly assumed to be drug related. The number of college students smoking dandelions would be too long to list.
And let go of the Tea Party comments-you liberals are obsessed with it; as shown by the IRS scandal. I would say you owe us a big apology.
Clotty Peristalt almost 11 years ago
Friends don’t let friends eat dandelions.
Sisyphos almost 11 years ago
Have you tried dandelion wine?Opus! Come back!
avtar123 almost 11 years ago
Dandelion greens sautéed with bacon. Nice lunch warm salad.
jimguess almost 11 years ago
Cottontail Rabbits eat dandelions all the time. Just another attempt by Berkeley to make funny … that failed.
charliesommers almost 11 years ago
Dandelions, higher in vitamin content than most other bitter greens and tasty too!
RG_Dustbin almost 11 years ago
Ah, dandelions! (We also grew up knowing their alternate names of “pee your bed”) As long as you cut the central spines out of the leaves and only use the newest and freshest leaves tehy are great as part of a mixed salad or you can wilt them in to curries etc a la saag dishes.
Traditionally dandelion heads for use in making dandelion wine should be picked on Saint George’s day for best results.
Also dandelion milk has been utilised as an ersatz rubber latex, and according to my old granny a long long time ago you can also use them in the seed stage for telling the time back in the days before you could buy a quartz wristwatch for the price of a pork pie, when the ludicrous inaccuracy of the process was perhaps a teensy bit less obvious!
RevvieQuar almost 11 years ago
More proof of your unhinged dementia.
The Tea Party didn’t exist back when this strip was first published but that doesn’t matter to you, does it? Any excuse to throw out more of your wackadoo nonsense….
You just never stop with the hate, do you? Please, please, PLEASE get back on your meds.
billbrandi almost 11 years ago
Back in the 60’s the Stones had a whimsical song called “Dandelion” that was mistakenly assumed to be drug related. The number of college students smoking dandelions would be too long to list.
And let go of the Tea Party comments-you liberals are obsessed with it; as shown by the IRS scandal. I would say you owe us a big apology.
billbrandi almost 11 years ago
It’s Tea Partier with a capital ‘T" and ’P’…also do you work for the IRS, per chance?
jbmlaw01 almost 11 years ago
Granny Clampett was the only one I ever heard talk about eating dandelion greens.
chrwest almost 11 years ago
Dandelions are metaphors for life. Eat them and it gets strange. But what a life it is.
craigwestlake almost 11 years ago
Ever notice that cottontail rabbits have fluffy tails – just like dandelions. Just sayin’…
sierraseven almost 11 years ago
Aye!
goprendek almost 11 years ago
yea i remember that. i called them that one time recently and people looked at me like i had lobsters growing out my ears.