dandelion flowers are eddable and good with fish fist soaked in vinegar water, and then fryed with fish, and along with forced rhubarb and spruce bud tea, were part of the early spring diet.After long winters of root vegatables and preserves, the first fresh plant foods were litteral life savers as they provided nutrients absent from foods availible in winter. And in the profligate way of nature dandylions stand up and say ! there is nothing you can do! eat me ! more !punny humans, you have eaten none of us!