Omelet wrote on Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:52:27 -0600:

> >> Squirrels eat acorns too and the tanins are toxic. They
> >> have to be water processed before eating them. Get a field
> >> guide to local edible plants. It'd be safer!
>>
>> Squirrels evolved eating lots of acorns. If we had eaten
>> them for a time, they wouldn't be poisonous, but might still
>> taste like crap.

> They are bitter as hell. I've tasted them as a child.

>> I've heard
>> that we can eat onions, but onions are toxic to cats. I
>> dropped a piece of white onion on the floor. One of the cats
>> walked up to it, sniffed it, then squinted her eyes and
>> backed away, even doing her head side to side like she was
>> saying "No way!"
>>
>> Damaeus

> Smart cat. <g>

I'm told there are red oaks and white oaks and one type has very bitter
acorns. The difference does not seem to bother the local tree rats.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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