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What Food Are You?
If you were a food what would you be? Describe yourself as an ingredient or an entire meal in detail. Only you will know how you taste. Explain you're reasons for why you are that food and tell us about yourself. Maybe you whisk up a secret or perhaps you open the fridge of your life. You may just want to peel back the layers of a unique tick that makes you, you. What you serve to us, write it in the form of a delicacy, a dessert, a savory snack, or pick something blander like a potato. Bonus points for more than one course, and partial bonuses for each side dish. Any form is welcome. 500 Word MAX. Happy Writing!
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Vee
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Wild Food

I am the edible plants growing wild in the fields, nettle, sorrel, patches of dark green wild garlic.

Or I yearn to be.

Trapped in crates, on shelves, in aisles, there is only the ancient memory of foraging.

Apples, berries, chickweed, dandelion. Burdock, plantain, citrus, aloe vera.

A bounty of reds and greens. Orange, blue and purple.

I dream of woodlands and flourishing fungi. Charcoal Burner, Penny Bun, Lion’s Mane. Jelly Ears, Slippery Jack, Hen of the Woods.

And too of nuts. Almonds, Beechnuts, Walnuts. Butternuts, Chestnuts, Hazelnuts.

A forest garden versus the monotony of monoculture.

When did wild become a pejorative? An antonym of civilized? Savage, dirty, scary, unholy. Backwards. A hindrance to progression?

When did wild become something other than just a normal way of life?

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