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Cardoons are one of the things on my "bucket list of foods I've never tried", and reading you mention this makes me wonder why they aren't grown in the US. Or if they are, why they don't get distributed?

Food "prevalence" in general is mysterious to me. It seems to me there are a lot of foods that could be more widespread but aren't for historical or quirky reasons. Pawpaws seem to be one of many similar examples.

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They don't seem that hard to grow, i.e., partial sun seems OK. I might give it a shot...

They're not incredibly productive - I had two or three one time and we never ate them because it just seemed like a lot of work (to prepare them) for not much food (and you would have been hard pressed to get more than one or two full leaves per plant per week or so). Whereas strawberries, herbs, peppers, and citrus just needed to be washed, cut, and eaten.

They are very pretty when they flower, though.

Thanks, I probably won't bother then - I have no ability with plants and I don't think that's likely to change. It was just my stomach that made me write that :)

Very ornamental flower also. Deep blue. Simply a little big for small gardens.

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