Originally Posted by Mr. Charlie

They're a little nicer if eaten fresh, but not much. I often feel sick after eating them, whether eaten fresh, made tea out of, or eaten dried. A good way to get them down is to make pearl jam out of them (putting them in a jar full of honey) but you'll still taste them later on your burps. Yuck.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.