jbeattie writes:

On Wednesday, September 4, 2019 at 5:25:24 PM UTC-7, Radey Shouman wrote:
AMuzi writes:

On 9/4/2019 4:42 PM, James wrote:
On 5/9/19 7:20 am, AMuzi wrote:


I don't know.
I'm happy that you are happy. If this works for you, by
all means do it more.

Your post reminded me of Chalo's all time pithy RBT
comment about cycling-specific energy bars and drinks, "I
just eat actual food." Works for me too.


I ate a meat pie mid ride once. The day was cold. The pie
was hot. Seemed like a good idea at the time. It wasn't
though. I was regurgitating meat all the way home.

Some actual food is counter productive.


It's a good story though!

At 85 miles into a sunny but windy 40F late September century, my
friend and I were just out of everything and stopped to eat some field
corn (dairy cow maize, not sweet corn). The effect was miraculous and
within minutes we were back riding.

Raw? No sorghum or onions available? Did you eat the stalk and leaves,
silage-style?

I have sampled roadside apples and concord grapes, both quite
uncultivated, and rode away refreshed.

You could break your teeth on field corn. It's what Joerg uses to bang
on his fence nail to repair his chain.

The opportunistic food of choice around here is
blackberries. https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8388/2...24b3da59_z.jpg

We have blackberries here too, although they are done for the year.
They're edible, but they're not nearly as tasty as PNW blackberries,
tending to sour rather than tart, and not juicy enough. There are
raspberries in July, again not as good as PNW blackcaps, and mulberries,
which are a kind of meh compared to those I remember from New Mexico.

The wild blueberries are good, although I live too far south to see
many, and they're still not as good as huckleberries. There is a
now-abandoned cranberry bog in my town, I'll have to go check that out
in a month or so.

I've got to go pick some before the season is over. A lot of my
favorite bushes were looking pretty lousy this year, maybe because of
the dry summer. You can also find fruit trees of various types -- a
lot of mystery apples.

I scavenged some windfall peaches last week -- I figure if you let them
fall they're more or less abandoned. Massachusetts peaches are
surprisingly good, albeit not very plentiful. Back in Texas I used to
find roadside figs and loquats.

I should have trapped the chicken that chased
me a few weeks ago and eaten that! Show that chicken who is an apex
predator!

Chickens tend to have friends. Possums have none, and can be hand
caught; just grab 'em by the tail.

We also have these things called stores where you can buy God's
perfect energy food:
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/07...g?v=1559954199

Mmmmm, donettes.

-- Jay Beattie.

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