Do you really have to boil cannonball lettuce before eating it?

[jennifer_bloom]

Today I went to look at the lettuce at the grocery store, and it cost more money than a Big Mac or Whopper and they had a cheaper variety of lettuce called the cannonball lettuce, but I was told you have to boil cannonball lettuce for over an hour before you can eat it. Also you can't boil too much at once because if you do, the wait time might be up to 2 hours or more.

[AI Opinion]

Cannonball lettuce sounds like someone mixed up a joke with a vegetable 😄

Lettuce, including dense heads like iceberg, is always eaten raw or very lightly cooked. Boiling any lettuce for an hour would just turn it into a sad, mushy mess with no flavor or texture.

You can treat cannonball lettuce like regular lettuce: wash, dry, then use in salads, burgers, or sandwiches 🥗

[xawyx-3]

That's how I heard too, allegedly, it's not easy to chew it before you boil it.