Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

http://apfoodingredients.com/2014/10/06/fall-regional-ift-event-full-flavors/

This is where I gave up and started hating Terra. This is a blog post by a marketing company. It includes the line "But what caught my attention was how FONA referred to the ingredient as a pharmacy in a fruit."

No sources. No confirmation. No evidence asked or given. Just something made up for a BS supplement site to sell Cupuaçu. And here it is being parroted by apparently "legitimate" food science & marketing companies.

Then I found the only source that had anything resembling a concrete claim: they said Anthony Zimmern called it that on Bizarre Foods. I'm still working on confirming that one, but he sure as fuck ain't from the Amazon.

Still kind of okay. Still kind of not surprising.

Then I found a lengthy "debunking" of the "pharmacy in a fruit" claim that was... sigh... obviously a concealed ad for someone's cupuaçu supplements.

*grumble* Fine. Let's keep going...

I did a verbatim search for "pharmacy in a fruit" and got a few hundred results. Some also claimed this phrase was common in the Amazon. Some of them weaseled right out and said "everybody" or just "experts" used it to describe the cupuaçu.

Still not surprising, really. Health food scammers gonna scam, and they're gonna pull claims out of nowhere. I kept going and found it used for several OTHER fruits...

Well, I noticed that one of the sales sites made the claim that "the people of the Amazon know the cupuaçu as 'a pharmacy in a fruit.'" A bit hyperbolic, but not too implausible. There's a lot of good shit going on in tropical fruit.

But I thought it was a bit odd that indigenous Amazonians would use an urban term like "pharmacy." So me being me, I looked into it.

Like any other classic gumshoe... I really shouldn't have.

(con't)

I had a slightly unsettling Philip K Dick moment yesterday.

So, I was watching the Weird Fruit Explorer video on the cupuaçu fruit, a close relative of cocoa. It sounded delicious, so I search Google for distributors. Unsurprisingly, the main results were from health food distributors. Apparently it's become a coveted smoothie ingredient, Because Antioxidants Or Something.

(con't)

(On second thought, though... this *is* Seattle. There's a non-zero chance there's better espresso right down the street. No good cake in the UD though. :( )

I'm feeling the warmest sort of envy for the patrons of this little Lisbon cafe. https://goo.gl/maps/QT7ipEsDxU22

Good morning, morning!

Good morning, sun!

Good morning, trees!

Good morning, busy buzzy bees!

#fucksobriety

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/animals-intelligence-raccoons-birds-aesops/

=(^)_(^)=

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZh0R6uB5Zc

#moodsnapshot #iamveryfierce

Hey, Masto?

Caffeine is a good drug to drown a depression in, right?

...

*twitch*

*twitchtwitch*

(Seriously, if I get something, ANYTHING accomplished today, I will feel so much better...)

This is pretty much what debating politics with people having a moral panic feels like: https://vimeo.com/7117832

I think I found someone I envy even more than I did that raccoon with the nice digs. https://i.imgur.com/z553t5A.gifv

(actual mood is pretty good, I'm mostly just

*slightly miffed over uspol
*slightly miffed over a pulled shoulder
*slightly miffed that i apparently suck at borderlands now after a 1 yr hiatus :p
*being incredibly lazy this morning and kinda envy the raccoon for going back to bed

#moodsnapshot https://awoo.space/media/Xa9fB2Gy_Dayd2wN8cs

"To help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same."

#gluttony
#sloth
#lust
#vanity
#wrath
probably #gluttony again
more #sloth

*hoards hugs, drags them off to closet in a sack, reverts to natural changeling form, and scarfs them down in shameful joy like so many acceptance-frosted Oreos* ty all 🖤​🖤🖤

I could kind of use a hug this morning.

I'm probably real low on the list of people in line for emergency hugs, since the basics of my life are actually pretty good at the moment.

The usual things are just wearing on me this morning, you know? What I could *really* use isn't even a hug, it's a reminder of what we're fighting for. One of those "why you should bother getting up in the morning" moments, if you have one to offer.