IJBM: Organic food ads
PETTY GRIEVANCE TIME: I fucking hate how organic food is advertised. organic food itself i don't really care about, but god damn the scaremongering fucking garbage they sell themselves on gets to me.
like obviously it's based on fear. obviously it's based on ignorance. obviously it sells itself based on oh a kid says it, i don't want to hurt my fucking kid!
but beyond that. beyond that, what does a person swayed by this ad fucking eat? Jimmy, I don't want you eating any weird foods like monosodium glutamate, or tikka masala, or fettucine alfredo. they might have been made by guidos, or worse, engineers! stick with something natural like fish sticks.
and this, i mean, it's basically what they all mean. freaky foods. don't want anything freaky, weird, unknown. god forbid anyone actually learn what something is so they can evaluate what it is for themselves. that's not how we operate here in american stereotype kitchen. get your information only from god given sources like your grandma and infowars.
i really fucking hate this one, actually, because I'm sure I said exactly the same thing to my parents at some point. I was probably like, mom, I don't want to eat this weird meat juice, and she was like what the gravy? And I was like yeah and I don't know how to spell gravy. And she was like ok great, I'll also take ice cream off the menu since I don't know that's made, and also dark rooms and large slides since you're a goddamn six year old, now eat your fucking food
because that's what you do as a parent, yeah? You recalibrate your kid's sense of what's scary and what's normal since we live in a complex world and as it happens it's not immediately obvious what kinds of mushrooms in the brush are tasty and which ones kill you. You teach them! And if you don't know the answer you try to figure out enough of one to make a decision! Fuck! Maybe you say "I don't know what that is, I'll stick with what I know is safe", fine, but you don't drive this fucking fear of the unknown into your goddamn family because you don't have the time to learn about the history of maize cultivation
Fuck
like obviously it's based on fear. obviously it's based on ignorance. obviously it sells itself based on oh a kid says it, i don't want to hurt my fucking kid!
but beyond that. beyond that, what does a person swayed by this ad fucking eat? Jimmy, I don't want you eating any weird foods like monosodium glutamate, or tikka masala, or fettucine alfredo. they might have been made by guidos, or worse, engineers! stick with something natural like fish sticks.
and this, i mean, it's basically what they all mean. freaky foods. don't want anything freaky, weird, unknown. god forbid anyone actually learn what something is so they can evaluate what it is for themselves. that's not how we operate here in american stereotype kitchen. get your information only from god given sources like your grandma and infowars.
i really fucking hate this one, actually, because I'm sure I said exactly the same thing to my parents at some point. I was probably like, mom, I don't want to eat this weird meat juice, and she was like what the gravy? And I was like yeah and I don't know how to spell gravy. And she was like ok great, I'll also take ice cream off the menu since I don't know that's made, and also dark rooms and large slides since you're a goddamn six year old, now eat your fucking food
because that's what you do as a parent, yeah? You recalibrate your kid's sense of what's scary and what's normal since we live in a complex world and as it happens it's not immediately obvious what kinds of mushrooms in the brush are tasty and which ones kill you. You teach them! And if you don't know the answer you try to figure out enough of one to make a decision! Fuck! Maybe you say "I don't know what that is, I'll stick with what I know is safe", fine, but you don't drive this fucking fear of the unknown into your goddamn family because you don't have the time to learn about the history of maize cultivation
Fuck
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this is a serious problem with human perceptions about "natural"-ness in first-world countries these days
I am so mad this isn't whipped cream.
as someone with a modicum of chemistry knowledge i want to smack EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO PERPETUATES THIS BULLSHIT
give me a few minutes and i could make listening to me talk about the rohingya genocide sound as appealing as your dad complaining about asian drivers
like i know the basics of maize history but: i don't knwo what a cultivar is
the orange is actually the result of cross-breeding everything with everything over thousands of years
so the orange tree's scientific name is Citrus x sinensis
cabbage and broccoli are cultivars of the same species, brassica oleracea
The orange (specifically, the sweet orange) is the fruit of the citrus species Citrus × sinensis in the family Rutaceae.[1]
The fruit of the Citrus × sinensis is considered a sweet orange, whereas the fruit of the Citrus × aurantium is considered a bitter orange. The sweet orange reproduces asexually (apomixis through nucellar embryony); varieties of sweet orange arise through mutations.[2]
The orange is a hybrid, between pomelo (Citrus maxima) and mandarin (Citrus reticulata). It has genes that are ~25% pomelo and ~75% mandarin;[2][3] however, it is not a simple backcrossed BC1 hybrid, but hybridized over multiple generations.[4] The chloroplast genes, and therefore the maternal line, seem to be pomelo.[2] The sweet orange has had its full genome sequenced.[2] Earlier estimates of the percentage of pomelo genes varying from ~50% to 6% have been reported.[3]
All citrus trees belong to the single genus Citrus and remain almost entirely interfertile. This means that there is only one superspecies that includes grapefruits, lemons, limes, oranges, and various other types and hybrids.[9] As the interfertility of oranges and other citrus has produced numerous hybrids and cultivars, and bud mutations have also been selected, their taxonomy is fairly controversial, confusing or inconsistent.[7][10]
Citrus taxonomy is complex.[1][2]
Cultivated citrus are derived from various forms of old citrus species
found in the wild. Some are only selections of the original wild types,
while others are hybrids
between two or more ancestors. Citrus plants hybridize easily between
species with completely different morphologies, and similar-looking
citrus fruits may have quite different ancestries.[3][4][5]
Most hybrids express different ancestral traits when planted from seeds (F2 hybrids) and can continue a stable lineage only through vegetative propagation. Others do reproduce true to type via nucellar seeds in a process called apomixis.[5] Many different-looking varieties are nearly genetically identical, and differ only by a bud mutation. Some differ only in disease resistance.[6]
Interbreeding seems possible between all citrus plants, and between
citrus plants and some plants which may or may not be categorized as
citrus. The ability of citrus hybrids to self-pollinate and to reproduce sexually also helps create new varieties.
The four core ancestral citrus taxa are citron (C. medica), pummelo (C. maxima), mandarine (C. reticulata), and papeda (C. micrantha).[8]
These taxa all interbreed freely, despite being quite genetically distinct. They probably arose through allopatric speciation, with citrons evolving in northern Indochina, pummelos in the Malay Archipelago, and mandarines in Vietnam, southern China, and Japan.[8]
different "species" of citrus-fruit-bearing plants crossbreed with each other and humans have liberally taken advantage of this to create something that is delicious but has a horribly messy genetic lineage
Citrus × sinensis
that's the multiplication symbol, NOT a lowercase x
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
i mean this is basically what i don't like about monsanto
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead