Bitter herb
A sharp green eaten for what its bitterness remembers — food whose value is in not being sweet.
A bitter herb in a dream is the dream's image of food whose value is in not being sweet. Across many traditions the bitter herb appears on the table as a marker — of mourning, of memory, of the part of a story that should not be softened. The dream brings the bitter herb when something in your life — a remembered hardship, a warning of an old failure, a deliberate refusal of comfort food — is being kept on the plate so it is tasted. A bitter herb eaten with the meal is the dream affirming the deliberate remembrance. A bitter herb pushed aside in favour of sweeter items is the dream noting that the difficult memory has been served and the household has refused to taste it.