Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Eatable plants [Was: Lorries [Was: Desalinated water]] Date: 30 Sep 2025 20:40:31 GMT Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <9fjemlxbio.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <5FLzQ.110783$OHH2.12315@fx14.iad> <10aoava$1jlb8$1@dont-email.me> <10aq40u$226u4$1@dont-email.me> <10arceg$2argp$1@dont-email.me> <1rq7qlxm4i.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10askgh$2m1mf$1@dont-email.me> <10atf47$2r607$1@dont-email.me> <10auv64$37rm5$1@dont-email.me> <1r5rqlxe2m.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10bh6qn$3s17u$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net HWpfAml+wXWJxzKJVlNmjwYV9u230/OA6FnIzLt6RtGmVUzojR Cancel-Lock: sha1:GxA5NCE+oFDvG27AgAMJgSGFaPE= sha256:ZYi8RcqMc1KYNhJ8JP8DPQOR4WjHNahnNUOb+fkDdH8= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:75490 On Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:16:53 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > Making corn more digestible involves boiling it with a little wood ash > or lye. Found that out from a Speculative Fiction story. Discovered > thousands > of years back by the people who bred the the corn we eat today. > The process makes the niacin in the corn more available and converts > some of the starch to sugar. Hominy. The US southeast is notorious for hominy grits that tends to come with breakfast whether or not you want it. When I make pea soup I throw in a can of whole hominy. I think it's a Quebec thing. When I was in Arizona I used to make menudo but it's hard to find tripas and patas around here.