It is news to me that one can eat cactus leaves!! The cactus is indigenous to Northern America so it is no wonder that somebody tried eating them sometime or other. We have cacti here that have been classified as a weed and the cochineal insect was imported to destroy the cacti. The fruit of this cactus is particularly tasty and is known locally as the prickly pear because of the fine thorns on the fruit. Picking them is quite an art as well as cleaning them. So people who like the fruit fight the cochineal and farmers who do not like the cacti fight the plants!!!
Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa. To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected].
