Tar, clover and purple bushes: what they ate on the street children 90

Now, when people choose between organic and very organic yogurt and excluded from the menu one product after another amusing to remember that we ate in the 90s. We ate and survived!

Nettle

Some feared nettle like the plague, while others quietly chewing her. Young leaves of this plant does not burn and it is quite pleasant to the taste. The main thing - to get close to him.

As a child, I ate almost everything that was growing in the country, not limited to berries and fruits. Those who have not tried the young nettle leaves, blackcurrant and raspberry, much lost.

Elena Zeleneva, web analyst Layfhakera

Barberry

Barberry is often planted as a living fence along the road. This shrub with reddish-purple leaves, sour and slightly prickly edges. Of course, they settle dirtiest of the way, but who cared. By the way, red leaves were considered tastier green.

Larch

Soft needles of larch sour taste. You might remember.

Lungwort

If you pull out a small flower, white tip will be sweet.

reedmace

Many people call this plant that lives in water, reeds. In order to make the stem edible, it was necessary to pull it out of the water and get to the root of the white.

We ate wormwood, nettles, sedges, cattails. Young nettle leaves no burning tongue, and if the rip, flattening the hairs on the leaves, and then the hands are not burned.

Anastasia Pivovarova, author Layfhakera

Rowan

Of these berries do Boucicaut, stitching thread them, they rushed, pressured and, of course, eating. It was said that it is necessary to wait for the frost to Rowan became sweet. But childhood and little patience compatible.

Clover

Flowers of clover, of course, not very sweet, but it did not stop us. Sees flowered and eats his white tip.

lilac flowers

Lilac eating, not for taste but for a higher purpose. There was a belief: if you find a flower with five petals make a wish and eat a flower, a dream will come true.

Wild apples (Ranetki)

Terribly sour and slightly astringent taste of little apples nobody stopped. We recruited a handful of whole fruits: half ate half was discarded. apples generally considered edible once fetal diameter exceeded centimeter. Green salt were special delicacy.

There were legends that "one girl ate unripe apples, and her stomach hurt," but no one this girl had never seen.

We climbed trees for Ranetki (all except me: I was not given even a child). Recruited several pieces, rubbing clothes and ate.

Irina Novikova, manager Layfhakera Sales

cherries

She was the astringent taste, and always gave poedatelya bird cherry juice from a black tongue.

birch Buds

Yes, someone chewed birch buds. They say they are delicious. Although earrings other plants too, could go into the food.

As a child, I somehow has lined rebyatnyu younger cook of earrings poplar compote. They brought home the pot, salt, sugar (all in my recipe), we lit a fire in the yard. All were satisfied, and no one was poisoned.

Lyudmila Rossenko, PR-consultant

sorrel

Round leaves oxalis, as the name implies, sour taste. You may know it as hare cabbage or clover Kukushkin. In large quantities, the plant is poisonous Aromatic and spicy flavoring plant: DirectoryBut on the whole quite edible, and even useful.

Acacia

Yellow flowers of acacia, or "dog", also can eat. They are also called gruel, though no one knew why.

If the flowers of acacia after raids kids still remained, they were transformed into pods also quite edible contents.

Resin

Yes, in 90th it sold chewing gum, but it did not deter children from chewing gum. They say the most delicious - wintergreen.

My childhood was spent in the Crimea. Profit there was something even in early spring. Particularly well were sweet flowers acacia, gum trees - amber in color and soft to the touch-viscous. It seems that among the resin of different trees even had their favorites, but now can not remember.

Alice Pirogov, PR-specialist

Tar

Rosin as gum issues does not cause she, natural and environmentally friendly. But some used the like tar. If otkovyrivali resin from the trees, the tar is usually mined in construction. The taste of it was so-so, but the common belief that it cleans the teeth.

Bluegrass

These are the ears, used to make "chicken or rooster", raking his fingers panicle. If you pull the spike, you can chew the tip, it is white, juicy and sweet.

Sour straws of anthill

The algorithm of obtaining formic acid is simple: it is necessary to anger the insects, put a straw in the anthill, wait until they throw out their fury on the wand. There was also a spell to speed up the process: "The ant, ant, give us juice as quickly as possible." 'Re shake insects with straws, and the product is ready for consumption. But the most desperate licking acid directly from the ants.

You can catch the ant and lick his ass. Only need to properly take him, and he will bite his tongue. Ants, too, not all are suitable only large red and black.

Pavel Lapin, IT-specialist

Black mulberry (mulberry)

This sweet and sour berry grows on trees. Her red-purple juice tightly eats into your hands and face.

Maple

Plain-leaved maple, and was the breadwinner, and poiltsem. Snack could young shoots, which are cleaned from the skin, like a banana, and webbed young seeds. In the spring of trees extracted juice, as well as birch.

We in the private sector generally eat everything that is not nailed down. White acacia, Jerusalem artichoke, "up". Or green shoots of maple, in a certain part of the stem they are pretty frosted and crispy. Advice to the young "podnozhniku" - not to recite the French writers about edible chestnuts and try not to have a horse.

Ivan Orlov, copywriter

poppy capsule

In ancient times was just poppy flower that grew in every third front garden. Buds inevitably turned into boxes, which looked beautiful and properly supplied with small black seeds. They could tap out on the palm and eaten.

By the way, poppy seeds - the only thing that is not consideredSingle Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 poppy straw, suitable for the manufacture of the drug, even if we are talking about varieties of opium plants.

Rosehip berries

Cotton, slightly astringent and slightly sour taste. And a lot more rough inside. rose hips, among other things, the source of vitamin C.Treatment plants, Kovalev NG.

Mallow

"Up", "bagels", "arbuziki" - as soon not call these little boxes! They had a long time to collect, but as a child time is not the most valuable.

Horsetail

This plant throws arrows with the "bumps" on the end. They are something and ate young fans of grazing.

oleaster

The fruits of this plant were codenamed "dates." What to do with the palm fruits from them and the truth is, not only visually.

And what of the pasture you tried in childhood? Share your memories in the comments.

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