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A lot of Lebanese shops sell sorrel. Sorrel is just clovers. 50% of people setting this meme are 100 meters or less from sorrel right now.
Sorrel is not clovers. Sorrel are commonly used in cooking here in Europe while clovers, not so much. That being said, both are hardy and easy to cultivate.
my grandmother picks sorrels on the way home and makes sorrel soup. When I was a kid, i remember we would eat them when we we're playing outside. We knew where all the crunchy ones had grown and not share with anyone that was unworthy
Sorrel can give you kidney stones. As kids, we were told not to eat too much of it.
So does spinach. And beans.
the difference is potency, wood sorrel is literally the reason Oxalic acid is named such and thus quite good at giving you kidney stones.
Ahhh, OK, that's my bad. I was thinking of some other name for clover. I've cooked with sorrel before, it's nice. Same for clovers, nice lemony flavor.
Thanks for the correction.
Wait what? Clovers are a species of Trifolium in the Fabaceae (legume family), but sorrel refers to the leaves of Rumex species in the Polygonaceae. What are you referring to?
I thought there was some other name for a clover-looking plant that started with an S.