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interesting, pretty sure I can get this to eat at most vegetarian places where I live... 🤔
They are certainly edible and are considered to have a range of health benefits - but the commercially available ones will be farmed or collected elsewhere than in the UK. Even if anyone did feel like foraging for them in the UK - which would be illegal, of course - given how rare they are, there's no way it would be commercially viable.
It's a pretty common ingredient for vegetarian food; I'm just surprised that could be considered "rare and protected" in some other parts of the world.
That thought just never crossed my mind, like if wild chickens were rare and protected, you know😀