I'm sure you know it. It has little pink flowers. It is nearly impossible to pull up. It has such thick roots that you need a shovel to remove it. It is called a Common Mallow, and I found out it is edible, and nutritious, and the flavor is very mild. So mild compared to most weeds, that we decided it needed to be sweetened.
We got the idea because it is a relative to the Marsh Mallow, which used to be the original ingredient in marshmallows. Mallows have a mucilaginous property (like okra) which makes them get a little slimy(not quite, more like foamy) when you chew on them. We found that if you coat them in sugar and chew them slowly then, if you have a good imagination, it will taste like a marshmallow (or if you don't then it tastes like grass with sugar on it--says Rich.) The kids thought it was great. See?
We also put them in a fruit salad. It is our mallow-fruit salad. We just put in oranges, bananas, mallows and coconut-- just what I had on hand at the time.
It went great with our stromboli. 
There you go. We are official weed-eaters! Want to come to dinner?
