What a perfect time to be alive 😌
so I maybe teared up a little
I really like the hands holding the skull instead of a shelf. The display feels more poignant that way.
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Watching any movie before 2000 reminds you that people in movies used to be hot but like in a normal way
the Game Changers series really shines because in every non-Heated-Rivalry book Ilya Rozanov shows up like a horrible bisexual Russian Columbo to torment the queer hockey-player leads because he immediately clocks them and he could be kind and understanding but he is god’s perfect gremlin and he chooses violence each time
DO NOT COME TO THE US FOR TOURISM!!!!!!
Dragging myself out of my sick hole to say, don’t come here the next 1,133 days.
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Ok five minute intro culinary botany. So there's a very limited number of organs that plants have. Right? They don't have weird bundles of goo inside them like animals [yuck]. These do not match up to what we call fruits and vegetables in a culinary sense.
There's leaves, stems, roots, flowers, seeds (people mostly know what all of these are) and fruits (people have a very skewed idea of what a fruit is).
We eat all of these as 'vegetables' just often in very odd forms that have been heavily selected upon, and 'vegetable' is just anything not terribly sweet, it can be basically any plant organ.
A carrot is a taproot that stores sugar. Easy 👍 Parsnip, rutabaga, turnip, these are all roots. Spinach, arugula, kale: leaves. Most herbs are aromatic leaves. Celery & rhubarb, leaf stems. Bamboo shoots and sugar cane are stems. Onion, this is where it gets weird, is an underground stem surrounded by a bunch of modified leaves which form a bulb. Potato, not a root, it's a kind of underground storage stem. Ginger & turmeric, also not roots, they're rhizomes, which is a modified, horizontal stem. Most spices (cumin, mace, caraway) are seeds, but there's a lot that aren't. Cinnamon is bark, cloves are dried flower buds. Paprika & chili powder are dried peppers, which of course are a fruit.
Fruits. A fruit is an ovary that develops into a vessel for seeds. The vast majority of fruits in nature are not edible, they are just dry seed pods. Pick a flower—daffodil, iris, poppy, they just have seed pods.
Behold, several fruits:
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ALTIt's also VERY common for fruits to be highly modified or reduced. In grains (wheat, corn, rice, barley, oats), what would develop into a fruit is just an extra layer of tissue around the seed, the pericarp:
ALTWe associate fruits with being animal-dispersed because we are animals, but they can also be modified to be wind-dispersed, like the 'wings' of a maple samara:
ALTAnyway if it has seeds inside of it (pumpkin, tomato, cucumber, avocado, chili pepper, okra) it's a fruit, botanically speaking.
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Cumin “seed” is botanically speaking… a fruit too.
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