Gives me something to do with the rotten meat I've got piled up.
Now, my initial (creative mode and otherwise) scans of the one single Nether fortress I've managed to find (my world is hysterically dull and difficult to find stuff in) showed no netherwart. And, not wanting to frustrate myself any more than needed with the Nether, I decided to do a Peaceful run through to see if there was anything inside.
After many, many, many small twisting passages (all alike), I finally found a nether garden, and greedily scooped up the rewards. Delving deeper, I found a couple chests with two iron bars, two gold bars, two diamonds and a saddle (to replace the one I'd lost thanks to Cheap Creeper and the Magma Pipe of Hidden Doom), and eventually another garden. I also snatched up the goods, plus the soul sand to grow them on, and made my way towards the exit.
..or, at least, what I thought was towards the exit. I got lost. Again. And then I wound up walking off a ledge into nothingness thanks to the architect deciding that doorways don't actually need to link up with the battlements.
By the time I managed to find that spot again, the items had despawned. So, basically, I'd just deprived myself of what little netherwart I actually had available.
...reeeeeally starting to dislike this place. Heh.