Flower-eating: a symbol for sexual frustration?

[Turk]

This is a food made of marrow flower. It's quite good and original.

[FirecrackerX]

Oh, a lot of things can be destroyed due to inner frustration, but I'm only interested in flowers, because flowers are so fragile and beautiful, and they represent pretty, naive things. The contrast is stronger.

Besides, any kind of symbolism with flowers and trees it's quite rich in detail, like the pear tree in Katherine Mansfield's 'Bliss', that represents the protagonist's bisexuality: This is not a random choice of tree, botanically a pear tree can be regarded as bisexual by nature because it is selffertilizing.

I don't know if I'm making my point clear here. I just feel like flower-symbolism it's a much more extensive subject than we suspect. And flower-eating in particular looks fascinating to me. But flower-eating in literature it's quite untraceable. It's pure hell to do research work about it T___T

Heeeelp...

[mtpspur]

I just have to relate this. In the 1980s Ralph Baski did a Mighty Mouse series of cartoons that were on the bizarre side and one infamous moment occurs where Mighty Mouse snuffs a flower up his nose (he was daydreaming of his true love) which was viewed as ingesting drugs and guess what cartoon series went off the air REAL fast and I'm still waiting for the DVDs. Actually had a serious argument at church with one tof the more 'influential' ladies there (translation--stick in the mud--and no I do not repent of that judgement call) about it. In fact waiting for DVDs of the original cartoons as well.