Yess!!  I LOVE bitter greens so much, but hell yeah I'll add some bacon in anyways :) :) :)

I love sauteeing bitter greens with a little butter and garlic, then dressing them with freshly shaved parmigiano and persian blue salt! Yummy!

I'm not a bitter lover, you know I have a sweet tooth.... buuut I always manage to eat my bitter greens by adding blueberries, apple or any sweet fruit and if I don't have fruits I use bbq sauce... I know, I'm weird! 😅

I like some really bitter stuff like black coffee and IPAs, but 80+% dark chocolate can be a little too much for me. You make the greens look so appealing though, I'd try them!

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Nice post.

Haha!  Just kidding!  No...  I mean it's a great post. LOL 
I'm an avid fan of food and thanks to a multi-cultural upbringing, a pretty adventurous eater. I like my coffee strong, black, no sugar but I like my tea sweetened with honey and lemon. I like bitter beer but I also like a fruity Moscato wine. Chocolate? OKAY. Any will do except I could live without white chocolate. (I mean...how can it be real chocolate if it's not brown???)  So, I'd definitely take a mix of greens, or throw some of the bitter ones as a compliment to a sweet BBQ'd meal. :)

I like all of the things on your list that make me a fan of bitter food- so I should try out some of the greens you mentioned. I think I will pass on the prickly ones though!

This is really cool.  Following.  
1. Chocolate - I like both types. I don't have an overtly strong preference one way or the other.  I like the strong 70% + cocoa content just as well as something milkier.  Depends on my mood I guess. 
2. Coffee. I love coffee. I like light, medium,  and dark/bold blends.  I do have to have cream.  I CAN NOT drink black coffee. It is utterly revolting to me.  However,  and I've heard other people say this,  adding SUGAR makes the coffee more bitter to me.  If I'm going to add sweetener, i use honey.
3. Beer - i am not a beer connisuer ...but I've always preferred  lighter beers

I bet I'm totally off base here but what about these other food categories predicting if you will like a bitter plant?
- vinegar  (i largely dislike )
- wine 
- very sharp cheeses or very blue cheeses
- salty foods
- spicey arugula - i eat arugula by itself,  what compound makes it have the  delightful spicey taste that makes me devour it by the handful?
- cilantro? Is this a bitter food? No. ..but it's decidedly with a unique taste. 

Do any of  those fiod categories fit in you think?  
Do you have any foraging guides?  I would like to forage and not die in the process....

wow man you really make great posts. U don't get anywhere close to the support u deserve but you are doing well simply because your so dedicated. 
Give me a little time and I will help you get some more powerful support. Also I have some projects in the works I think u could help me with and I can compensate u for it. 
Keep up the great work and do not compromise your high standards!

I was just telling my wife how hungry your food pictures always make me. They did it again. I'm gonna go eat some cauliflower, but I'd rather have your greens.

Great post! I love dark chocolate, coffee and chicory. Also got some Belgium Trappists in the fridge :D

I lik bitter, mature lettuce is also very bitter, excellent formatting, photos and data!

Ha ha ha, great post. Great to see all the greens prepared side by side, I'd love to be there for a tasting. You could create a single score for bitterness appreciation, mark each question on a scale of one to five then present the average... I'd totally end up with the top score! Munching on pure cacau nibs, with the most intense of mocha prepared coffees in one hand and a dark English bitter in the other, he he he. Maybe could add a common bitter vegetable to the list, like, hmmm, actually, that's hard to think of a very bitter vegetable that everybody would know, kale?? 

A trick I've picked up along the way through hanging out with foragers is to make a mix of various different greens, especially when making a salad. Like just bunch up a selection of wild greens and chop them into a bowl. That way no one single flavour dominates and it's a medley of bitter spectrums. Nyum nyum.

I'd like to share with you Macka B's rasta rap about bitter..."Don't run from bitter!":

https://youtu.be/SfHT4l7Fk_k

I love the topic! I am okay with bitterness: bitter chocolate, bitter melon(LOOK IT UP), and IPA beer.  But I couldnt eat many forigable greens in Texas. They were too bitter.  Here in Michigan we have been eating loys of Lambs Quarter and Purslane.  But in Texas the Lambs Quarter was not very good tasting. 
I like your idea of making Steemit a key foraging resource!!! Keep it up!!

"Cooking with bacon"...now there is a plan I can get behind! lol

I honestly never thought that some green might be too bitter and it is not what concerns me what I think of the wild plants. I would try them all anyway. 

I love dark chocolate (70-80%) and this is the only chocolate we buy. 
And I love black coffee or just with milk. Never use any sugar in it. Neither in my tea and some herbal teas can be very bitter. 

I think the most bitter thing I even had was Artichoke tea. Boy... that is a hardcore drinking! :D

Good article with interesting information and good comparison!  I personally like milk chocolate and use a lot of cream and sugar, (I don't drink beer), so I think I'm not the person who like "wild greens".   But, your dishes with wild greens look yummy!  Perhaps, I will try them and love them someday!  ;)

I'm not big into the bitters, but your post was exceedingly interesting and informative. Thanks for sharing this world of differing tastes.  
I am a milk-chocolate, fruit beer sort of person. And don't drink coffee, which I realize is odd, but never learned.  Have a nice day.

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Upvoted and following.  I'm not much on bitter flavors but this is great info.

Mi estimado amigo adoro el chocolate pero negro que te quede ese sabor caracteristico en el paladar durante todo el dia.

El cafe negro sin azucar es como se debe tomar fuerte con cuerpo, expreso si es posible, soy un amante del cafe amargo donde puedas sentir las texturas y aromas y sabores de la planta desde el suelo donde fue cultivado, si tu le agregas azucar lo arruinas estas tomando una azucarada, asì que cafe solo amargo y de ser posible hecho a mano o a travez de una cafetera italiana.

cerveza lo lamento no bebo.

si adoro las plantas ok,  la que estas mostrando se parece a una que un italiano me dijo que le llamaban archicoria Cichorium intybus aun no la pruebo pero espero hacerlo un dia.

Que otras plantas tenemos con un sabor amargo pero delicioso muy bien aquì comemos pacaya )Chamaedorea elegans) sus flores tiernas se comen en rellenos, curtiodos o simplemente hervidas.

Ok la mas exquisita de todas aquì va, hierva mora ( Solanum nigrum.) esta es una hoja comestible, de sabor amargo, como se come, en sopas para la resaca es una delicia lo dicen los que han tenido problemas de alcohol un dia antes con esto se levantan.

en pupusas nuestra comida tradicional pupusas de mora una delicia, y una vez cuando trabaje en un volcan cortando cafe, probe la mejor que he comido nunca he vuelto a probar algo así mora sudada que es un proceso de freirla pero con poca agua entonces te queda tronadorcita asi como al vapor, que delicia quiza era el hambre que tenia que hizo que la disfrutara tanto.
Perdon por no intentar escribir en ingles pero sere mas explicito así.
gracias por este grandiosa información acerca de las mas hermosas de las plantas amargas llenas de muchas vitaminas y minerales.
;)