Cereal. Kind of like raisan bran but the flakes were not bran. Kashis version of it.

Tonight I'm cleaning fiddleheads for tomorrow morning, to be fried the bacon...yum, I knew Atlantic Canada was good

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(I am only jealous!)

I tried them once. Not fried.

Buffalo style looks interesting.

Fiddleheads are alright. They grow on the side of the road here and people come and pick them. They are a bit fussy to make though all that cleaning and and what not - not really worth the effort unless somebody else is doing it.

What the hell are fiddleheads?

The curly bits of young ferns. Like in the pic that bristol posted.

I couldn't make out what they were.

Young ferns eh? My mind was conjuring up something far more grotesque.

Me too... And I thought that they were some weird fanged East coast fish... Hence my previous post

Yeuch .. Why would you eat bracken?

They are the sprouting bits that first pop out of the ground of the Ostritch Fern (none of the other ferns will do, apparently) and the season only lasts for a couple of weeks and is highly prized, and like most things foodie, I will buy into it! You have a bit of a faff cleaning them....but we have lots of time in NB, so put the Archers and your rubber gloves on and off you go.....boil them for 15 minutes, then wash them and they are ready to be: fried with a bacon for breakfast or in a salad with tomatoes and vinaigrette, as I will do tomorrow evening with barbeque. What I do like here is that it is so very seasonal...and the seasons can bring you up and down, so if you are on a roll, you might as well go with it...we are in the time of celebration

They taste like a cross between cooked asparagus and chicory, and the saltiness of the bacon cuts the taste nicely.

Bon appetite

That sounds actually not bad, I do like asparagus, so that and bacon
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On second thoughts...I will pass on the fiddlehead thingies and settle for two servings of bacon.

Precisely. I've just been chopping them out of the garden wall.

Asparagus, a different story. Had my first batch of new season last week and keep reminding myself to get another batch soon. Prepared with bacon as it happened.

Wikipedia notes: Like other ferns, brackens do not have seeds or fruits, but the immature fronds, known as fiddleheads, are sometimes eaten, although some are thought to be carcinogenic. (see Poisoning)