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*looks it up* Apparently, on top of not growing easily elsewhere, olives also have to be cured and fermented or else they're inedibly bitter, which just seems like an obstacle to eating them

and means that exports would almost certainly not have viable seeds, too

-F

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olives seem to be traditionally exclusively used in mediterranean cuisine, do they just not grow outside the mediterranean or did they just never get established elsewhere? -F

Why do you have to say that an astronomer "does astronomy", rather than just saying they astronome?
-F&R

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something went wrong with monsterpit and holly's name is just a massive strawberry now
-F

food 

We're always fascinated by how noodles independently developed in both Italy and China into vastly different styles of cuisine around what is essentially the same base.

-R

Is there a difference between a "cog" and a "gear"?
-R

"And here's our rare books section..."
"Would you happen to have anything medium-well instead?"
-F

food, non-vegetarian 

Barbecue burgers are *good* and it still to this day bugs us that our dad would always tell us that putting barbecue sauce on a hamburger was weird (not to tell us not to do it, he just didn't like the idea for his own food)
-F

the Hearth :ms_agender_flag: boosted

hot take? 

You are not defined by your worst moment. If a person loses their temper and does something bad that isn’t their true self coming to the surface. That’s not what a human is. A human is a system that responds to inputs. Load enough trash into the intake and the motor will kick. The idea that a person is just a bunch of layers of obfuscation on top of a core of darkness is Freudian pseudoscience.

You know what would be really useful in a very few specific situations? A way to open a link in a browser on a different computer. Sometimes we find something on our laptop that has a download we'd like to use on our desktop.
-F

the Hearth :ms_agender_flag: boosted

I absolutely adore this aptophilia customizable sofa idea (Or perhaps ai AptoLutely adore it...)

furaffinity.net/view/14024097/
Go check out the artist here for loads of cool centaur stuff.

We seem to have quite a headsache for some reason.
-R

The world needs more multi-limbed folk.
-F

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