When hiking or going through a park you don’t see wild vegetables such as head of lettuce or zucchini? Or potatoes?
Also never hear of survival situations where they find potatoes or veggies that they lived on? (I know you have to eat a lot of vegetables to get some actual nutrients but it has got to be better then nothing)
Edit: thank you for the replies, I’m not an outdoors person, if you couldn’t tell lol. I was viewing the domesticated veggies but now it makes sense. And now I’m afraid of carrots.
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There are plenty of survival shows including the survival island series with bear gryll where people find tubers (usually yuca).
Most of the time it’s because people don’t know what a potato plant looks like, same with sweet potatoes and yams. Or their flowers. Did you know they have beautiful purple or white flowers that are a visual cross between puppies and orchids.
Check out subs like r/foraging and r/foragers where people literally post every day during hikes and stuff vegetables that they have found.
It’s also location dependent. If you are in a rural area that has been turned into agriculture, a lot of the native species are killed off. If you are in an area that has a lot of native tribes at some point and there are still a lot of forests (Appalachian mountains) you can find Ramps, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, sweet peas and so on)
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