"Jack Campin - bogus address" >

> Something I've seen on sale in Istanbul a couple of times:
> bundles of green stems about a foot long with slightly hairy
> skin. You peel the skin off and chew them. They taste like
> rather woody raw rhubarb. According to one person I spoke
> to, they're from somewhere a long way from Istanbul. They
> seem like the sort of thing a shepherd might chew on for
> lack of any real fruit and then get nostalgic about. You
> see peasants on buses chewing them. They doubtless have
> lots of vitamin C but are not really a taste treat.
> What is the plant? Turkish name or Linnaean binomial.

I've lived in Turkey for nearly 40 years and I've never seen or heard of
anything like this. I'm having it researched.

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Bob
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