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Why is she eating grass? Grass doesn't have any nutritional value for humans.
That's not true, 70% of all human crops are grasses. "Grass" is much more than just the typical American lawn.
Various grasses can be used as spices or herbs, like lemongrass, and the "warigal greens" mentioned are a type of spinach.
Maybe this is a cultural difference. In the USA we don't call any produce "grass", other than things like lemon grass, which gets called by its full name. No one would say "grass" when referring to spinach. Actual grass, like lawn grass, or plains grass, doesn't really have much nutritional value to us because our stomachs can't break it down enough.
Crabgrass, Rice, Wheatgrass, Sorghum, Wheat, Bluegrass, Cat Grass, Brome, Rye, Goosegrass, Timothy grass.
All edible grass.
I find it amusing you used the term "actual grass" then tried to explain it to them as if they were somehow mistaken because of cultural differences.
No, sweetie, you're just ignorant.
Thanks for curing me of my ignorance. I'll remember to say "I'd like a steaming hot bowl of grass" next time I order rice at a restaurant. You're the best!
I don't understand why youre being down voted, it's like saying "oh yeah, love me some tomatoes in my fruit salad". Like sure, tomatoes are fruits, but you're not going to receive one if you ever like order "fruit".
Right? The conversation is easily solved with "she was eating salad greens, not actual grass". Pendants enjoying their pedantry.
And we also use grass to refer to marijuana, which is also not a grass.
I know this is getting downvoted but holy fuck I'm laughing