Star jelly - Wikipedia
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  • ALostInquirer@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    …Has anyone tried to consume it, or observed anything else consuming it? The page doesn’t seem to have anything on that…

    • booly@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Observations made of star jelly in Scotland support the theory that one origin of star jelly is spawn jelly from frogs or toads, which has been vomited up by amphibian-eating creatures.[15] The German terms Sternenrotz (star snot) and Meteorgallerte (meteorite jelly) are known to refer to more or less digested frog spawn vomited by predators (Schlüpmann 2007).

      Yeah I’m not trying it