Great post! I'll now be on the lookout in my backyard "weeds" to see if I can find this newly-discovered edible. I'm already very fond of the purslane I sadly spent many years pulling out of everything...and I was careful to learn of it's poisonous fellow spurge that looks so much like it. Now my kids pull the spurge and announce to me they've gotten rid of it and bring purslane in to ask if they can eat it. They'd be tickled to discover a new weed they can eat.
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There are so many edible wild plants. In the United states the total is over 1,000. Some are better than others, to say the least. When I see pesticide manufacturers advertising killing dandelion it makes me smile a little.
Dandelion leaves go wonderfully in salads. So much flavor and they really enhance the meal. When you buy organic salad mixes in the stores now, you see dandelion, arugula (which was unheard of in the traditional grocery stores up until a few years ago) and many more 'weed' like greens.
Me, only a little. Keeping the dandelions from taking over the garden can be quite a task even if you do eat them! However, I've learned that milk thistles and creeping charlie - also annoying garden invaders - are edible as well, along with those durn stinging nettles that REALLY hurt if I accidentally brush my skin with it when I pull it.