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this spider caught a rolly polly????

Pondering the Orb

update: holy shit

the rolly polly is DEAD and SUCKED DRY. I apologise, spider, i was not aware of your game…

this spider caught a rolly polly????

Pondering the Orb

that very specific detail about the grapes being PEELED should not be the straw that breaks the camel's back but it is. why is it peeled. why are you peeling? would peeling the grape somehow redeem the fact you're about to dunk it in mayo? not only is it a food crime it is also an unfathomably high-effort food crime. it haunts me.

of course. unpeeled grapes is what would make this dish unappealing.

i would like to Unsubscribe from American Midwest-Mountain West cuisine please

that very specific detail about the grapes being PEELED should not be the straw that breaks the camel's back but it is. why is it peeled. why are you peeling? would peeling the grape somehow redeem the fact you're about to dunk it in mayo? not only is it a food crime it is also an unfathomably high-effort food crime. it haunts me.

of course. unpeeled grapes is what would make this dish unappealing.

I take it back i dont think lamingtons are the worst foods any more…

Also, I think its very nice that u honour the potatoes by holding funerals for them.

upon interviewing a local i have discovered that a regional variant includes carrots, walnuts, and shredded coconut, and is served stirred up into a kind of “heavily polluted river” texture. the performances of the ceremony this anthropologist has witnessed tend to feature mini marshmallows alongside the shredded carrots, with the jello served whole and cut into slices. however, in all cases the jello MUST be green, unless the dish is made with canned pineapple, and then it may be orange. and thanks, the potato funeral is especially great when it has cornflakes

I feel like pandora with her box trying frantically to close the lid on the midwestern food atrocities but they keep coming.

I am experiencing horrors beyond my comprehension

I take it back i dont think lamingtons are the worst foods any more…

Also, I think its very nice that u honour the potatoes by holding funerals for them.

Get yourself a brother with his own vodka distillery fuck yeah

Cannot oversell how delicious this flavour is with lemonade (the soft drink kind not the American kind)

points: diesel spotted!!!!!

i was today years old when i found out that china has an alligator and it's one of the two extant gator species, alongside the american alligator. now im kinda obsessed with them. look at that little face, it looks so sly.

sniles so sneetly

tfw you're one of the most endangered crocodilians in the world with only 300 individuals left in the wild. you use to be wildly distributed across the yangtze river but have suffering centuries of habitat loss and human predation and now inbreeding is a huge concern in captive breeding programs, which have only had limited sucess. marco polo wrote about you in his travels* and it is thought that your booming mating calls inspired the myths about dragons summoning thunder.

*i fully believed he was talking about the nile crocodile oops

You're right on everything except the limited success. Limited success in Western (mostly American) zoos, yes. But in China, at the Anhui National Nature Reserve for Chinese Alligator (ANNRCA), there are tens of thousands in managed care (a 2018 facility report noted around 15,000 alligators, and this has been confirmed independently by international crocodilian conservation groups during site visits). There's also a smaller one, the Changxing Chinese Alligator Nature Reserve (CCANR), that has around 5,000. Breeding them in their native range has been wildly successful.

As for the wild population, the most conservative estimate is around 1,600 in the province after reintroductions, plus the couple hundred that exist outside of that core range. The population goes up every year!