It's the same thing with apples. If you just plant apple seeds, you end up with a really shitty fruit. Apples varieties have been bred and mixed to create something that tastes edible and then they're all re-planted from cuttings of the same plants so that each tree of the same variety is nearly identical.
It's the missed joke that the US folk hero "Johnny Appleseed" isn't responsible for the stuff in the fruit aisle, he's responsible for the stuff in the beer aisle.
It's something like a 20/80 shot on if your apple tree will taste sweet. But to some peeps they hate sour apples, which I love, so it's not a big deal.
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Avocados are all clones too. Same with potatoes, which I think is what helped cause the Potato Famine because since they were all the same they were all susceptible.
Most fruit is, lots of grafting and shit going on, it's why the gros michael died out. It was pretty much the only banana cultivar we were using.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
What's weird is that fruit is the last food that's really, truly regional. If you travel to a country that in a significantly different biome from your home range, you're liable to encounter fruit that you've never had before. Aside from some durable specimens (apples, citrus, bananas, etc) there are at least hundreds of fruits that are just too fragile and specialized to be exported any great distance.
Next time you're travelling, check out the produce section and pick up a couple of specimens you're not familiar with. It might be the only chance you get to experience flavors that just don't exist at home.
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My parents have two banana plants that grow reddish bananas(Not the same as plaintains) and an orange tree that produces greenish oranges.
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I want to get airb&b banned in Seattle. Not only does is it make finding a decent apartment hard as he'll because there's always somebody with more cash who will ignore subletting stipulations and turn a rental into an airb&b anyways, their guests are pretty horrible.
Last night it was a loud as fuck balcony part in a neighboring building with a bunch of drugged up techbros and russian prostitutes.
Avocados are all clones too. Same with potatoes, which I think is what helped cause the Potato Famine because since they were all the same they were all susceptible.
Yep. Bananas too. If you've ever wondered why banana-flavored stuff doesn't taste at all like bananas, it's because that flavoring was based on a now-extinct, much more flavorful banana variety that was wiped out by disease. The bananas we have now are all from a monoclonal line that is resistant to disease, but relatively flavorless.
Avocados are all clones too. Same with potatoes, which I think is what helped cause the Potato Famine because since they were all the same they were all susceptible.
Yep. Bananas too. If you've ever wondered why banana-flavored stuff doesn't taste at all like bananas, it's because that flavoring was based on a now-extinct, much more flavorful banana variety that was wiped out by disease. The bananas we have now are all from a monoclonal line that is resistant to disease, but relatively flavorless.
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not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
Avocados are all clones too. Same with potatoes, which I think is what helped cause the Potato Famine because since they were all the same they were all susceptible.
Yep. Bananas too. If you've ever wondered why banana-flavored stuff doesn't taste at all like bananas, it's because that flavoring was based on a now-extinct, much more flavorful banana variety that was wiped out by disease. The bananas we have now are all from a monoclonal line that is resistant to disease, but relatively flavorless.
Avocados are all clones too. Same with potatoes, which I think is what helped cause the Potato Famine because since they were all the same they were all susceptible.
Yep. Bananas too. If you've ever wondered why banana-flavored stuff doesn't taste at all like bananas, it's because that flavoring was based on a now-extinct, much more flavorful banana variety that was wiped out by disease. The bananas we have now are all from a monoclonal line that is resistant to disease, but relatively flavorless.
this is actually blowing my mind
Here's what it looked like:
The banana peels were much more slippery too.
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Spent about an hour attempting to play RE7. I don't know who this is for. The fighting is awful, but I could maybe forgive that if it was even a bit compelling as horror... except it isn't; it's just kind of gross.
Then I attempted to play Horizon Zero Dawn again. No, this is not the first time. The first time, I got just past the childhood part, but had a weird, persistent feeling the controls were wrong somehow, so I did a test. I pointed focus mode at the palisade gate, paused, held the stick directly upward, and unpaused, and my feeling was proven correct. For some reason, the game interpreted forward as being at a slight angle away from the direction the camera was pointing. With the camera over Aloy's right shoulder, she pulls left, and vice versa. I know it's not my hardware because I tested Bloodborne immediately after, and I have played a whole lot of Prey since and not had problems.
So today I thought well, maybe something will be different this time.
It was the same continuing that save. It was the same on a new playthrough. It was the same after I reinstalled the fucking game.
I wanted to play that game.
I'm gonna
have some ice cream.
Fuck RE7 but Horizon being unplayable makes me want to cry.
e: I don't even know why it bothers me so much. It might be that nobody else in the world seems to have this problem. It might be that makes me feel like I'm mad when I know I'm not - I did that test multiple times, always the same result - my eyes are not lying to me.
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I'm mad because the Venn intersection of 'food that isn't actively trying to shorten your lifespan and comes in environmentally friendly packaging' and 'food that isn't covered with labels proclaiming it to be a non-GMO serving of total bullshit' is growing ever smaller.
I'm eventually going to have to sacrifice one of my principles, and it may just be that I prefer the destruction of self and planet over promoting some of the stupidest pseudo-science of this century.
I want to find the person who thought up the marketing term "superfood" and beat them to death with a hammer.
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Eat these berries. They contain absolutely zero Martian gamma-waves. And that's health facts you can trust!
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I'm mad because the Venn intersection of 'food that isn't actively trying to shorten your lifespan and comes in environmentally friendly packaging' and 'food that isn't covered with labels proclaiming it to be a non-GMO serving of total bullshit' is growing ever smaller.
I'm eventually going to have to sacrifice one of my principles, and it may just be that I prefer the destruction of self and planet over promoting some of the stupidest pseudo-science of this century.
I want to find the person who thought up the marketing term "superfood" and beat them to death with a hammer.
I find that awfully generous to the marketing industry.
Only holding a single person responsible...
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
I'm mad because the Venn intersection of 'food that isn't actively trying to shorten your lifespan and comes in environmentally friendly packaging' and 'food that isn't covered with labels proclaiming it to be a non-GMO serving of total bullshit' is growing ever smaller.
I'm eventually going to have to sacrifice one of my principles, and it may just be that I prefer the destruction of self and planet over promoting some of the stupidest pseudo-science of this century.
I want to find the person who thought up the marketing term "superfood" and beat them to death with a hammer.
I find that awfully generous to the marketing industry.
Would you recommend it to me? I really did not enjoy 6 AT ALL, and am currently replaying 4 again, for somewhere around the 50th or 60th time.
It's a flat out horror game, it has no real resemblance to what I understand were the purely action led 4-6 games. There's some shooting later on but only buy it if you like atmospheric horror games and light puzzle solving.
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The VR in the game seems like it adds a lot to the experience as well*.
*it scared me so bad that I played it for like five minutes and then had to take it off and have a cry
75 pounds to get my fingerprints taken
$200 CAD to have said fingerprints digitised and sent to the Canadian government
$60 CAD to have them couriered
A minimumof 100 pounds to have my identity documents stamped by a fucking notary (and I can't have them stamped by anyone reliable such as for instance the policeman who's taking the goddamn fucking fingerprints)
For a single goddamn form.
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Would you recommend it to me? I really did not enjoy 6 AT ALL, and am currently replaying 4 again, for somewhere around the 50th or 60th time.
It's a flat out horror game, it has no real resemblance to what I understand were the purely action led 4-6 games. There's some shooting later on but only buy it if you like atmospheric horror games and light puzzle solving.
Awww yiss, #2 is my second favourite in the RE series!
The VR in the game seems like it adds a lot to the experience as well*.
*it scared me so bad that I played it for like five minutes and then had to take it off and have a cry
I was looking at a VR RE7 stream, do you see your own disembodied arms when you're actually playing it? Seemed kinda janky
I played on PSVR
the arm thing is weird since sometimes they animate your virtual arms doing things that your physical arms are not (brushing away flies, interacting with objects)
I only played with a gamepad though, not sure if it supports the PS Move controller or if the PC version supports the wand/touch controllers
75 pounds to get my fingerprints taken
$200 CAD to have said fingerprints digitised and sent to the Canadian government
$60 CAD to have them couriered
A minimumof 100 pounds to have my identity documents stamped by a fucking notary (and I can't have them stamped by anyone reliable such as for instance the policeman who's taking the goddamn fucking fingerprints)
For a single goddamn form.
holy shit
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
Would you recommend it to me? I really did not enjoy 6 AT ALL, and am currently replaying 4 again, for somewhere around the 50th or 60th time.
It's a flat out horror game, it has no real resemblance to what I understand were the purely action led 4-6 games. There's some shooting later on but only buy it if you like atmospheric horror games and light puzzle solving.
Awww yiss, #2 is my second favourite in the RE series!
75 pounds to get my fingerprints taken
$200 CAD to have said fingerprints digitised and sent to the Canadian government
$60 CAD to have them couriered
A minimumof 100 pounds to have my identity documents stamped by a fucking notary (and I can't have them stamped by anyone reliable such as for instance the policeman who's taking the goddamn fucking fingerprints)
For a single goddamn form.
That notary fee is nuts. We needed to have some forms notarized for the sale of our condo recently. We checked online and found that most UPS stores have notaries, and called and found one nearby who was in that morning. They charged one dollar per stamp, so the total for everything was $7.00.
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It's the same thing with apples. If you just plant apple seeds, you end up with a really shitty fruit. Apples varieties have been bred and mixed to create something that tastes edible and then they're all re-planted from cuttings of the same plants so that each tree of the same variety is nearly identical.
It's the missed joke that the US folk hero "Johnny Appleseed" isn't responsible for the stuff in the fruit aisle, he's responsible for the stuff in the beer aisle.
Next time you're travelling, check out the produce section and pick up a couple of specimens you're not familiar with. It might be the only chance you get to experience flavors that just don't exist at home.
Last night it was a loud as fuck balcony part in a neighboring building with a bunch of drugged up techbros and russian prostitutes.
I wonder how much louder tomorrow night will be.
Yep. Bananas too. If you've ever wondered why banana-flavored stuff doesn't taste at all like bananas, it's because that flavoring was based on a now-extinct, much more flavorful banana variety that was wiped out by disease. The bananas we have now are all from a monoclonal line that is resistant to disease, but relatively flavorless.
slowpoke.jpg
Someone must have snuck into the field near the park and set off like 200 dollars worth of fireworks all at once.
Some car alarms were going off after.
this is actually blowing my mind
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Here's what it looked like:
The banana peels were much more slippery too.
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The historic watermelons that ND linked to I think were much more "melony" in flavor. But much more seeded. I can't remember where I read that though.
Which seems like some kinda sitcom character.
Also I poured myself too big a glass of mead.
To be fair, "Big Mike" also sounds like a reject from a sitcom table read.
Then I attempted to play Horizon Zero Dawn again. No, this is not the first time. The first time, I got just past the childhood part, but had a weird, persistent feeling the controls were wrong somehow, so I did a test. I pointed focus mode at the palisade gate, paused, held the stick directly upward, and unpaused, and my feeling was proven correct. For some reason, the game interpreted forward as being at a slight angle away from the direction the camera was pointing. With the camera over Aloy's right shoulder, she pulls left, and vice versa. I know it's not my hardware because I tested Bloodborne immediately after, and I have played a whole lot of Prey since and not had problems.
So today I thought well, maybe something will be different this time.
It was the same continuing that save. It was the same on a new playthrough. It was the same after I reinstalled the fucking game.
I wanted to play that game.
I'm gonna
have some ice cream.
Fuck RE7 but Horizon being unplayable makes me want to cry.
e: I don't even know why it bothers me so much. It might be that nobody else in the world seems to have this problem. It might be that makes me feel like I'm mad when I know I'm not - I did that test multiple times, always the same result - my eyes are not lying to me.
I want to find the person who thought up the marketing term "superfood" and beat them to death with a hammer.
I find that awfully generous to the marketing industry.
Only holding a single person responsible...
Don't worry, I've got plenty of hammers.
Would you recommend it to me? I really did not enjoy 6 AT ALL, and am currently replaying 4 again, for somewhere around the 50th or 60th time.
It's a flat out horror game, it has no real resemblance to what I understand were the purely action led 4-6 games. There's some shooting later on but only buy it if you like atmospheric horror games and light puzzle solving.
*it scared me so bad that I played it for like five minutes and then had to take it off and have a cry
75 pounds to get my fingerprints taken
$200 CAD to have said fingerprints digitised and sent to the Canadian government
$60 CAD to have them couriered
A minimumof 100 pounds to have my identity documents stamped by a fucking notary (and I can't have them stamped by anyone reliable such as for instance the policeman who's taking the goddamn fucking fingerprints)
For a single goddamn form.
Awww yiss, #2 is my second favourite in the RE series!
I was looking at a VR RE7 stream, do you see your own disembodied arms when you're actually playing it? Seemed kinda janky
I played on PSVR
the arm thing is weird since sometimes they animate your virtual arms doing things that your physical arms are not (brushing away flies, interacting with objects)
I only played with a gamepad though, not sure if it supports the PS Move controller or if the PC version supports the wand/touch controllers
holy shit
It's even more survival horror focused than 2.
They never wait until the last minute, I think they're lonely.
(Edit: they're in their 70s, and none of my family lives around here anymore so I understand it)
That notary fee is nuts. We needed to have some forms notarized for the sale of our condo recently. We checked online and found that most UPS stores have notaries, and called and found one nearby who was in that morning. They charged one dollar per stamp, so the total for everything was $7.00.