What the hell is a "purslane"?

I have been accused by certain people of being a food snob, but I have nothing on these people. The lede:

RICHARD FAULK still recalls, with a twinge of shame, the day he and his girlfriend, Jeanine Villalobos, served store-bought tortillas to guests.

Yes, I've been known to fly all the way to San Francisco to satisfy my burrito cravings — but this is ridiculous.

Oh, and "purslane," for the uninitiated: "A trailing Asian weed (Portulaca oleracea) having small yellow flowers, reddish stems, and fleshy obovate leaves that are sometimes cooked as a vegetable or used in salads."

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[quetzlcloth]

As in: "Dahling, can you believe those purselanes were actually purchased from a market instead of grown from seed? I was so embarrassed for them, it's really worse than an opera singer peeing herself on stage at the Met, don't you think..."