What kind of wild food can you find in your country?

That's a nice post and i can relate to it. Th reason is that my house is near a kfar and a kibbutzim, and they have large areas where in the simmer they have watermelons and other other fruit and in the winter we have avocado trees, bananas, apples, oranges, lemons and many other things, that include also berries. I can just go and pick what i want from the fields with their profession. i Love it, i rather go and pick it from the fields than buy it from the stores.

where I vacation up in Maine there are many bushes with wild blueberries and raspberries. You can eat them right off the bush, and my sister makes them into muffins and pies. There's nothing as tasty as fresh fruit right off the plant.

Here there is a veggie called Fiddle Head's They are a very wierd looking green plant, and when there cooked I myself think they are gross but they grow wildly here.

oh well you are right it is a great fun walking around woods and meadows and looking for fresh fruit and vegetables..here in Rome you can find a wide variety of food (providing you are good at avoiding the poisoning ones!!) and of course strawberries and raspberries..but above all it is an old Roman tradition going through the fields and looking for a wild kind of fresh vegetable that you can cook with a bit of garlic and oil or in many other ways..this vegetable is called cicoria, chicory I think and there is a typical expression saying...andar per cicoria..that is looking for chicory in the fields ..but it has other meanings and it means for example that you are so poor you have to look for chicory in the fields if you want to eat something

Wow, I thought when you said wild you meant something that's weird. I thought of our local "balut", you know, boiled duck egg with the semi-formed duck fetus still inside. It's yummy, but the only time i knew that foreigners did eat that specialty was on one episode of fear factor. LOL. I don't know how my ancestors discovered how to make and eat that kind of food. maybe the conversation went like this - man: you know my friend, i think i crave for something new another man: something like what? man: i think i crave for something special. something exotic - i know..a duck egg! i'm lucky they didn't thought of something like the placenta of a gazelle. Seriously, I live in the city and there are only but a handful of trees here - most of them non-fruit-baring hardwoods. But we do have a manggo tree and we always make sure we get the fruits first - before our other neighbor does. ;)