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Postby Kane » Tue May 25, 2021 1:51 pm

Chlorophyll? More like Borophyll!

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Tue May 25, 2021 2:40 pm

This is probably a weird and oddly specific take but, has anyone noticed celery tasting differently as of the past few weeks or so? I snack on celery a lot and it is starting to just taste odd.
In the kangaroo household, we refer to these types of ideas as mom theories. In general, a mom theory is a crackpot idea that is based on some true fact but is unprovable, harmless, and silly. Other examples of mom theories:

-Pringles sends all the packages with crumbly chips to Wal Mart
-My cell phone gets better service when the tablet is not right next to it
-The chinese sent stinkbugs over to america on purpose
-Giant eagle doesnt get "real" islays chipped ham (one of my mom's original mom theories)

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Postby Beveridge » Tue May 25, 2021 3:33 pm

Are all mom theories GOP theories like all squares are rectangles?

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue May 25, 2021 3:44 pm

What is the truth behind the stinkbug thing?

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Postby robbiestoupe » Tue May 25, 2021 4:07 pm

What is the truth behind the stinkbug thing?
Pretty sure they hitched a ride in packaging crates. Could be wrong

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Postby mac5155 » Tue May 25, 2021 4:41 pm

What is the truth behind the stinkbug thing?
Pretty sure they hitched a ride in packaging crates. Could be wrong
A la spotted lanternflies??

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Postby mac5155 » Tue May 25, 2021 4:42 pm

This is probably a weird and oddly specific take but, has anyone noticed celery tasting differently as of the past few weeks or so? I snack on celery a lot and it is starting to just taste odd.
In the kangaroo household, we refer to these types of ideas as mom theories. In general, a mom theory is a crackpot idea that is based on some true fact but is unprovable, harmless, and silly. Other examples of mom theories:

-Pringles sends all the packages with crumbly chips to Wal Mart
-My cell phone gets better service when the tablet is not right next to it
-The chinese sent stinkbugs over to america on purpose
-Giant eagle doesnt get "real" islays chipped ham (one of my mom's original mom theories)
As someone who worked as a grocery stock boy age 15-17 from 2003-05 I can confirm that we got a lot of joy out of shaking the boxes of pringles.

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Postby robbiestoupe » Tue May 25, 2021 5:30 pm

What is the truth behind the stinkbug thing?
Pretty sure they hitched a ride in packaging crates. Could be wrong
A la spotted lanternflies??
A la every bad thing in America, amirite?

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Postby shafnutz05 » Wed May 26, 2021 6:45 am

China has certainly graced us with some awful pests the last decade plus. Them cheap goods though...

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Postby count2infinity » Wed May 26, 2021 6:47 am

What’s different about the taste of celery? Is it a different brand of celery? Perhaps grown in a different location?

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Wed May 26, 2021 10:44 am

I remember reading about a fungus or something that was slowly killing the "normal" variety of bananas that we eat in the Western Hemisphere, and scientists were racing to produce another variety that will be fungus resistant, but it will taste completely different. Not sure where we are on this, but maybe celery is having the same issue?

I always have some at home and haven't noticed any difference.

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Postby count2infinity » Wed May 26, 2021 11:22 am

I remember reading about a fungus or something that was slowly killing the "normal" variety of bananas that we eat in the Western Hemisphere, and scientists were racing to produce another variety that will be fungus resistant, but it will taste completely different. Not sure where we are on this, but maybe celery is having the same issue?

I always have some at home and haven't noticed any difference.
The problem with bananas are that every single cavendish banana tree is genetically identical. The way they "plant" a banana tree is to just take cuttings from a mature tree and "plant" those... I think via some sort of splicing technique. Anyways, the asexual reproduction of bananas means they're identically the same (or at least very very very very similar). When they produce sexually (via seeds) they can mutate and keep up with certain diseases. With them being identical, there's no disease protection.

Celery goes to seed and is planted (in nurseries before being transplanted to fields).

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Postby robbiestoupe » Wed May 26, 2021 12:46 pm

I remember reading about a fungus or something that was slowly killing the "normal" variety of bananas that we eat in the Western Hemisphere, and scientists were racing to produce another variety that will be fungus resistant, but it will taste completely different. Not sure where we are on this, but maybe celery is having the same issue?

I always have some at home and haven't noticed any difference.
The problem with bananas are that every single cavendish banana tree is genetically identical. The way they "plant" a banana tree is to just take cuttings from a mature tree and "plant" those... I think via some sort of splicing technique. Anyways, the asexual reproduction of bananas means they're identically the same (or at least very very very very similar). When they produce sexually (via seeds) they can mutate and keep up with certain diseases. With them being identical, there's no disease protection.

Celery goes to seed and is planted (in nurseries before being transplanted to fields).
Isn't that how apple orchards are maintained as well - from saplings rather than seed? Seem to remember reading a bulletin board at our local orchard that explained the process.

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Postby count2infinity » Wed May 26, 2021 1:01 pm

Yup... if an orchard orders 100 honeycrisp trees, they don't get seeds... they get sticks that are just cuttings from a honeycrisp tree that they splice to the root system of something else.

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Postby tifosi77 » Wed May 26, 2021 1:03 pm

We have an apple tree in our backyard that is grafted, and produces what looks to be two different varieties of apple at different times of the year.

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Postby Shyster » Wed May 26, 2021 5:11 pm

I can remember my grandfather doing tree grafting when I was a child. I forget what trees he was doing it on. I think he was maybe grafting nut trees. I want to say he actually once won some sort of "farm show" type award for his walnut trees, or something like that.

Apples are different in that there is a ton of varieties and genetic variability, and new types of apples are being constantly developed. Bananas are all screwed if there's a major disease outbreak, and IIRC we got the Cavendish variety to begin with because a fungus devastated whatever variety of banana was being farmed before.

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Postby Kane » Wed May 26, 2021 5:13 pm

Bananas are a trash fruit anyway.

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Postby Shyster » Wed May 26, 2021 6:52 pm

Bananas are a trash fruit anyway.

I can confirm they still taste delicious when picked out of the trash, yes.

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Postby mac5155 » Wed May 26, 2021 9:21 pm

What is the truth behind the stinkbug thing?
Pretty sure they hitched a ride in packaging crates. Could be wrong
A la spotted lanternflies??
A la every bad thing in America, amirite?
Covid!

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Postby shafnutz05 » Thu May 27, 2021 6:53 am

Bananas are a trash fruit anyway.
Best post workout fruit, easily.

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Thu May 27, 2021 10:29 am

just went to put some chicken in the crock pot only to discover that the Ziploc bag containing the chicken wasn't fully sealed so there was gross chicken goo in the fridge. luckily ya boy the kangaroo is cool under pressure (unlike certain goaltenders in the 412 area code) and resolved the situation peacefully. still, it is gross, and it is also my girlfriend's fault for not being careful with that grossness when she put the chicken in there earlier this week.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Thu May 27, 2021 12:25 pm

Chicken juice leaking ANYWHERE is never a fun experience.

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Postby Kane » Thu May 27, 2021 12:26 pm

Chicken juice leaking ANYWHERE is never a fun experience.
The hens might disagree.

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Postby blackjack68 » Thu May 27, 2021 2:23 pm

Always flip that Ziploc seal upwards in the fridge. Never tuck under or straight out.

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Postby tifosi77 » Thu May 27, 2021 2:37 pm

Also, invest in some 1/4 sheet trays. Containers for containers.

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