Wood smells like we should be able to eat it, but we can't.

uhhhhh what

I’m guessing it sort of came from the fact that we cook food with burning wood. Less so now, but burning wood meant cooked food for 200k years.

I don’t think wood smells like it is edible, but a fire can remind me of food through smell.

Maple syrup is tree blood. Kind like tree vampirism.

I don’t think wood smells like food. But I wonder… apparently termites have a bunch of gut bacteria to digest wood. Maybe if you eat raw termites and bark beetles, you can then eat some sawdust. If you continue the process eventually you may be able to eat wood or paper with your own gut biome. Maybe start with a termite, sawdust, and banana smoothie and move up from there. Best of luck.

No it doesn’t

Cinnamon and sumac are two common spices that are made from grinding up tree bark.

We can, and do, eat wood. It's listed as "cellulose" in the ingredients, and it's in everything. Your ice cream, your bread, probably up in yo closet doin your Mamma right now

That's what whiskey is for

Hey nobody's stopping you from gnawing on some cedar shavings my dude.

It what? Who thinks wood smells edible?

If you've eaten shredded cheese from the store, then you've eaten wood.

For the majority of human history, we've eaten around wood (around a campfire, a hearth, etc), it makes sense it would become intertwined with our food palette

U can eat it. Its just not particularly nutritious or paletable.

Skill issue.

I spent the day making a planter box out of cedar, and it doesn't smell like food even a little.

You can bake sawdust into bread lol https://youtu.be/MTC_ETWa3JA

I'm not sure I agree about the smell of wooe, but the cambium of many different tree species is perfectly edible. Have at it, my friend!

You can. I know a guy who eats a birch log every year. He literally sits on the couch pulling splinters from the log and chews on them while watching tv. He also grinds his egg shells and mixes with oatmeal.

OP confirmed for beaver with dental issues.

It might interest you to know that we do eat wood when we eat that sprinkled parmesan or romano cheese in the plastic containers: It contains wood to prevent the cheese from clumping (and it counts as fiber)

Wood is notoriously hard to digest. After wood evolved, it took millions of years before funghi and bacteria evolved the ability to decompose it. And that's why we have oil now.

There are plenty alcohols, like whiskey and wine, that are supposed to have "oaky" flavors due to the barrels they're kept in.

is your pizza made of.... wood?

I'm... not so sure about this. Also we can eat paper and that's just mashed up wood, right?

Liquid smoke has warning labels on it

Call me weird, but I have never once salivated to the smell of any wood.

Have you ever made love to a greased up knot in a tree trunk?

There's many aromatic compounds in organic chemistry that are among the most toxic we know. Basically I learned that a sweet teasing smell in the lab means you better get out there, just to be on the safe side...

Maple syrup?

who smells wood and thinks "you know what? I want to slap that pine tree on my pancake"?

This comes to mind: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bark_bread

Please don't make this reddit.

Antifreeze

This should be an unpopular opinion instead, because almost no one associates the smell with a desire to eat it.

Yup. That's the worst thing about the local authorities banning wood/coal (coal was wood ..!) household fires. The absence of the smell.

Mind you same with BBQ. And there are no bears in these woods!

All the 10s in my neighborhood love to gobble on my wood, though?

Edit: It was a joke. There are no 10s in my neighborhoods, and if there were, they would probably not choose to have intimate relations with me.

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That's what coffee is for.