To eat grass?

[Nowisthemonthofmaying]

Please settle a dispute between me and DH!

Sitting in the garden, I started pulling out stems of grass from the lawn and nibbling the young tips.

DH looks at me as if I've gone completely mad and said I'm being weird.

AIBU? Surely this isn't a particularly unusual thing to do?

Are you sure you're not eating any other kind of grass?

Um, yeah it’s pretty weird.

. Is this meant to be funny?

🤔 Yes. It's definitely weird.

No not meant to be funny! Is entirely serious!

Obviously you all agree with my dh... this is worrying

What's weird about that? I thought it was something everyone did.

It's not like I'm chomping on bushels of the stuff. Just a nibble like you might do with a leaf of basil or something

I did it growing up however as a sort of pica with my autism.

So people do, do it. I can imagine if I didn’t think about the potential cat/dog-wee I could still end up doing it under some circumstances.

But no, OP it’s not “normal”. It isn’t that bad though it’s only grass

Bit odd. What about cat wee and woodlouse poo?

Oh well at least there's the two of us hairbrush

I think people are going to massively overreact to this when it doesn’t affect them in the slightest, it’s your grass, nibble away

Perhaps 'tips' was the wrong word - you pull out the sort of inner leaf so the bit you eat is the bit that was inside the plant. Hence no worries about cat pee etc

I used to, the stems at the base, tho, nice and juicy. I guess it’s no different to a mint or basil leaf. My favourite drink is Zubrowka, which has a blade of bison grass in it.

Daisies are nice. Taste like carrots. Not a fan of the rest of the lawn.

I always used to eat the freshly pulled stem like Brigante9 rather than the tip. I can’t say I ever tried daisies but dandelions are bitter.

Yep. Unsheathe to reveal the paler inner stem and nibble away. Learnt during the many, many, many hours watching DDad play cricket during the summer.

Yep i do this. At the coast i'll pluck a pluck a long grass stem as i brush past and strip/peel and nibble the fleshy bit. It's something to do while you stroll along and you taste the 'land'.

What does it taste like? Isn't it just very...grassy 🤢

As well as nibbling your grass stem it's good to chose a suitable stick while you walk. One which is a good length for pushing brambles away from your legs, pointing at stuff and generally swishing about

It doesn't taste strong. Just sort of 'green'. Like a bland lettuce leaf.

Grass is really bad for your teeth. It contains loads of silica which wear your teeth down. And your stomach also can't digest it so it can give you horrible stomach ache. But it's not toxic so there's that at least.

Haven’t done that years! Also used to pick the flower from clover (the little time red/white blossom) and suck in the sweet pollen-y bit!

It used to be a cliche thing that farmers were supposed to do.

Ooo just remembered splitting wild sedge grass down the stem and pulling out the white spongy inner. Natures chewing gum my late DH used to say.

I used to like to pick an ear of corn and peel the little husks off and chew the unripe .... bits in the middle ... kernals? one at a time. Floury tasting and squishy