For those who have tried growing the delicious leaves or sprouts from Brassica Oleracea (of which Broccoli, Kale, Savoykale, Pak Choi, Romanesco and many more are variants of the same species) in our gardens or allotments without pesticides have surely noticed that a huge amount of natural pests gladly eat them before we do. Can't blame them of course.

The perceived worst offenders are the different species of cabbage flies and moths whose larvae can decimate an unprotected field if not continuously watched for eggs or protected with a fine meshed net without cracks.

It becomes quite clear just how much pesticides must be used on an industrial agricultural farm to keep cabbage hole-free in the supermarket.

My question is then: How did different cabbage or kales get grown historically? With a focus on the pest-keeping side. I can't seem to find much luck searching the web for such information. So be it the 18:th century, 10:th century or antiquity. I'm glad for any answer or further reading tips. Likewise geographically.

When all the lucky contestants arrived at the factory, Grandpa Joe's vile hot dog water-cabbage-flop sweat smell had just mortified Wonka, who was only used to clean and sweet smelling things. His mood turned. He decided that if someone were to come to his beloved factory and smell like a rotting Arby's dumpster in summer, they will have to pay for their brazen act of insolence. Grandpa Joe must have smelled like rotting deer, which was just to much. Years in the sour, piss soaked bed of lies, Grandpa Joe's had cultivated his scent. It was almost a kombucha.. Poor Charlie has just been conditioned to ignore the smells. His nostrils being burned out and his soul, his spark for life, just gnawed away by the foul, parasitic, rotting old ghoul know as grandpa Joe. It sickens me to this day... Wonka tried to play it cool, but the smell was not of his knowing, lacking the vocabulary to describe it's foulness. It was like pig shit and the scent of an infected sore. Wonka could not tolerate what untold horrors this "man" was bringing into his otherwise pristine and immaculate factory. Wonka's factory had only wanted to produce goodness and happiness. It's aura, it's pureness, was tainted by grandpa Joe's impure foulness.

This one has some dubious Blue-Eyed Viking Master Ra Chefs with Nordic Spirit overtones:

> Time for another lesson in north germanic food supremacy, folks. This, time we'll be talking about why the perfidious english may be proud of figuring out how to mash potatoes, but only THE NORD has discovered the secrets of mashing potatoes the right way.

It's bloody mash with added meat and veg. There are probably dozens of similar dishes, hundreds if you take the meat out.

Bonus wrong pretentious nonsense:

> allspice (this giant of nordic cuisine, the best spice in the world)

From the Wikipedia:

> Allspice, also known as Jamaica pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, or pimento,[a] is the dried unripe berry of Pimenta dioica, a midcanopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, now cultivated in many warm parts of the world

A Nordic cuisine exclusive indeed.

Bonus funny bit - the picture of Colcannon, the Irish cabbage mash, was marked as "containing potentially sensitive content" for me.

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I am a student in biological engineering, planning to do a thesis on intercropping. By reviewing the literature, I was very surprised to find almost zero papers studying the potential of intercropping traditional legumes like cabbage, peas,... with mushrooms like oysters despite marvelous advantages it provides on soils content and the fact that there is no competition for light !

What is your opinion on this subject? Why are these kinds of agricultural associations so understudied?

- Feedback is important

Greetings medievalists!

Let’s do something different this time - let’s talk about feedback. We read your comments/posts and we noticed that Medieval Monday Talk #12 in particular was polarizing.

While the idea of seeds and saplings sounds nice, in some cases, it can be a micromanaging hell - introducing too many mechanics to flows can make things more complex, which in some cases can be cumbersome , and you would have to worry about a couple of more things when it comes to food production now.

We hear you though - So, let us discuss what we did and how, by our accounts, it can improve the gameplay.

The primary reason for this decision is emphasizing the survival feel. The idea to go out in the wilderness and collect saplings and seeds fits perfectly in the harsh medieval period of our game - how far will you go to improve your life and what risks will you take to improve your crops?

While the idea sounds intimidating, the realization of the concept is much more convenient.

For example - all over the map we will introduce wild flax and wild barley. These “wild” versions of familiar plants provide less than expected number of resources, but they should be very easy to find, thus making them a perfect starting point.

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You were worried that the whole process would turn tedious, with unnecessary micromanaging forced upon the existing functional gardening system. We heard your criticism, hence why the whole system received significant rebalancing and simplification.

Now, every crop and tree will drop one seed/sapling when harvested/cut. In theory - if you have 30 cabbages, you will get 30 seeds by their harvesting. The cycle still exists - what you harvest will provide enough resources to start another seeding/planting session, that is - if settlers don’t fail at their jobs.

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Redcurrants, barley, and flax are even more convenient - with each harvest phase, they’ll offer more than one seeding resource, which will call for crop field expansion (if you want that, of course).

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January 25 Juche 111 (2022) “Uriminzokkiri”

The Township Cooperative Farm in Kangdong County, Pyongyang, is scoring successes in the production of greenhouse vegetables. The farm has several blocks of heat storage wall-type, threefold vinyl sheet greenhouses covering an area of over 1 000 square metres, which produce garlic, coriander, bok choy, cucumber, tomato, lettuce, crown daisy, celery and other vegetables by stages every year. It established a food production cycle and manages the manuring and cultivation of vegetables according their vegetative stage as required by the technical regulations, including thinning of seeds and applying of additional fertilizers, thus producing vegetables in all seasons. It applies various growth stimulants in keeping with its actual conditions, and puts selection of species, growing of young plants and management of soil and environment on a scientific and technical footing so as to increase the output per area. It produces over 60 tons of cabbage per hectare, and a head of cabbage weighs 1.8 to 3 kilograms. It introduces triple to quintuple farming through intercropping and double cultivation. The vegetable output in greenhouses is on the increase every year. Last year, the farm produced one thousand and hundreds of tons of various vegetables and supplied them to the Pyongyang citizens.

Everyone will have a different approach to keeping a self-sufficient homestead, and it’s unlikely that any two 1-acre farms will follow the same plan or methods or agree completely on how to homestead. Some people like cows; other people are afraid of them. Some people like goats; other people cannot keep them out of the garden. Some people will not slaughter animals and have to sell their surplus stock off to people who will kill them; others will not sell surplus stock off at all because they know that the animals will be killed; and still others will slaughter their own animals to provide their family with healthy meat.

For myself, on a 1-acre farm of good, well-drained land, I would keep a cow and a goat, a few pigs and maybe a dozen hens. The goat would provide me with milk when the cow was dry. I might keep two or more goats, in fact. I would have the dairy cow (a Jersey) to provide the pigs and me with milk. More importantly, I would keep her to provide heaps and heaps of lovely cow manure to increase my soil fertility, for in order to derive any sort of living from that 1 acre without the application of a lot of artificial fertilizer, it would have to be heavily manured.

Raising a Dairy Cow

Cow or no cow? The pros and cons are many and various for a self-sufficient homestead. In favor of raising a cow is the fact that nothing keeps the health of a family — and a farm — at a high level better than a dairy cow. If you and your children have ample good, fresh, unpasteurized, unadulterated dairy products, you will be well-positioned to be a healthy family. If your pigs and poultry get their share of the milk by-products, especially whey, they likely will be healthy, too. If your garden gets plenty of cow manure, your soil fertility will continuously increase, along with your yields.

On the other hand, the food that you buy in for this family cow will cost you hundreds of dollars each year. Compared with how much money you would spend on dairy products each year, the fresh milk supply from the cow plus the increased value of the eggs, poultry and pig meat that you will get, along with your ever-growing soil fertility, will quickly make a family cow a worthwhile investment. But a serious counter-consideration is that you will have to take on the responsibility of milking a cow. (For different milking plans and estimated savings. Milking a cow doesn’t take very long — perhaps eight minutes — and it’s very plea

Hey everyone,

after 3 years of using and approx. one year of using daily in kinda high amounts (30-60GPD) I finally kicked the sludge. I tried to kick it 2 times prior with little to no withdrawal symptoms but quickly hopped on it again since my brain told me: "Yo, quitting was not that bad so you are not really addicted. Just go slow this time. Max 2 times a week". I guess my love for fairy tails is still strong in me... Yeah it used daily again 3 days after that lol.

After this relapse I used alot again peaking at 60-80 grams for a very short while (maybe 2 weeks) and also felt lost, depressed and motivationless again. At some point I realized how much this bullcrap plantpowder cost me. No libido whatsoever, brainfog, no motivation, heigthended depression and anxiety. I was just sitting around taking kratom for 5 minutes of slight euphoria and then hours of feeling like shit and berating myself for using, rince and repeat, only watching stupid Youtube-videos wasting my f****** life away. I was not motivated to do ANYTHING but sitting around and wasting my time. No training, no meditation, no DJ-ing, no music, no gaming, no reading. Essentially all my hobbies were dead. And man this sucks so much to see your old self falling appaert from a incredible numb and apathetic Point of view. I once was a person embracing change, doing new stuff, working on myself, progressing to beat my depression and BOOM kratom entered the chat and set me back in so many ways.

I changed so much in those 3 years. It is crazy. And only for the worst...

I dont't need to tell you guys how great it is in the beginning. It was a wonder weapon against depression and anxiety but as soon as I started to use higher and higher amounts to get high it morphed from a crutch into a hurdle. It started to controll my life. Most days I would only eat one meal so the food would not lessen the kratom high. And the crazy thing about this is I DID NOT realize I was addicted to this shit. When I think back I am just baffeled about my stupidity and the power of my brain to rationlize my behaviour. Opioids ARE sneaky. I know this for a fact now.

With peak consumption also my depression and anxiety peaked. I have problems with those things anyway but I am pretty sure kratom made it way way worse. Never in my past I had to be six week on sick leave because I cant handle everyday life...

After giving myself alot of time to think about all that slowly but surely I relized all that I wrote abov

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On the other side of the bar, Sir Broderick was stewing in his seat, boozy hiccups coloring his breath crimson. He stared out the window, looking with scornful eyes upon the oppressive film of condensation doubtlessly imparted by Wayword Woods.

Oh, how he detested the Wayword Woods, and with hood reason. The Wayword Woods were indeed so humid that what was oft remarked upon as ‘morning’ dew covered the Wayword Woods’ every fern and tree and bush and decaying animal corpse at all times of the day.

Yes, surely even at that very moment the Wayword Woods were coated in dew, even though it was well into the evening. About half passed-gas, as they said in Caldonia.

Yes, Sir Broderick considered, it was half passed-gas and there the Wayword Woods sat, right outside the foggy window of the Belligerent Bar-D, and misty morning dew had been calmly copulating with everything containing chlorophyll, and also anything decomposing, since it cut the cheese.

‘It cut the cheese,’ of course, referred to when the sun rose every morning. It used to be called ‘the cutting of the cheese’ until all the hip kids replaced their parents at the CCC (caucus on common colloquialisms) and decided that ‘the cutting of the cheese’ was just a little too formal for something that sounded so stupid, and therefore not as enjoyable to say.

Their parents and grandparents, in a state of what was known in Caldonia as disgrosst, argued instead that it sounded far stupider to formalize ‘the cutting of the cheese’ and that said added stupidity equaled added enjoyment to saying the saying.

There were a silent few that argued in the dark that this was all bread and circuses to distract from the fact that ‘sunrise’ had far fewer syllables than ‘it cut the cheese,’ which itself had even less syllables than ‘the cutting of the cheese,’ but good, honest people didn’t talk about those folks.

“Shitface! Stop staring at nothing and get over here you blathering baboon!”

Sir Broderick’s eyes flitted to a focus as he cringed inwardly as a man best described as tall and dense stormed up to him, pulled him from his comfortable, sullen table and embraced him in a beer-tinged embrace.

“Oi there Thurmy. Chips and fish and—” Sir Broderick let forth a bile-fil

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

My anxiety and depression (and disordered thoughts) have been at an all time high since Thanksgiving. My grandma pushed me back into my thoughts by bringing up the weightloss of my uncle who visited over the holiday. His body has been a topic of discussion since he visited. Its been an enite week and its still being talked abt. Its driving me insane and my thoughts have been non-stop about lessening my food intake. Like i get naturally less hungry when depressed, but its becoming pointed now, and for some reason i started thinking abt how my sister and I share food restriction traits and how its a miracle we didnt end up as purgers. My family encouraged and cultivated purging in us by forcing us to do salt water cleanses in the 2010s, the first time i remember using a diarrhetic was in 2nd or 3rd grade (wouldve been 07-08) when my sister and I complained abt being a bit constipated. We were babies but our dad gave us adult dosages and the effects lasted into the next day and we had to be taken home from school because of it I'm so angry at them for doing that to us, for making us the way we are now, for letting us watch the biggest loser, for making us go to bariatric meetings with them. For feeding us that cabbage soup. For all of it. I'm just so so angry

What is a culinary ethnography?

In my travels, I have interacted with many cultures, and have documented my findings. This is by no means a rule book, as if I am some sort of dictator of what is, and isn’t proper for a member of a race to do in the kitchen. Rather, it is a collection of observances in regards to commonalities and trends among members of the same Race. While my own experience is obviously limited, and there are plenty of individuals I have yet to dine with and learn about, I would like to offer up what I have learned in my travels.

-Adelbert Boffin, Halfling Culinarian

Dwarves

Many races use food for celebration; and what race more so than the Dwarves? Anyone who has been in a bustling tavern in a cosmopolitan city has probably seen some Dwarven revelers drinking friend and foe alike under the table. A penchant for alcohol, however, is not all that this folk has. Let us examine their diet as a whole.

Dwarven foodstuff is primarily separated into two groups: “that from above” and “that from below”. “That from above” includes everything grown above ground or outside of the mountain or hill that the Dwarves call home. These include most grazing animals and any fruits, vegetables, or grains that the Dwarves might cultivate. “That from below,” meanwhile, includes all treats cultivated below the earth’s surface. These include hardier root vegetables, certain lichens and moss, many types of fungus, and a variety of subterranean creatures that some Dwarven clans cultivate, such as spiders or lizards. We will begin with an in-depth look at the above before moving onto the below.

That from above:

While adventurers often picture Dwarves as stalwart denizens of the mountain that never leave the crags and spires they call home, many Dwarven clans spend a fair amount of time in the sunlight. This time is often spent allowing livestock to graze among whatever greenery is available on the hills and mountain sides. Cattle, goats, and sheep are very commonly seen as grazing animals. However, unlike other races that rely on grazing animals, these animals never venture too far from home. Most are let out in the mornings and corralled back inside by night fall. Additionally, instead of solely relying on grazing, some clans also raise pen animals on feed. These include the aforementioned cattle, goats, and sheep, along with pigs and fowl.

Dwarves also use their stronghold fields for agriculture, primarily vegetables and grains. Roots of

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It's all about them crops

Greetings medievalists!

We mentioned previously that the crops system will receive a major overhaul. Let’s talk about what we meant by that.

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To plant cabbages, carrots, beets, herbs, and flax, you will need their seeds. Yeah, seeds will be parts of the crops now. You will be able to buy them from merchants, but some, like redcurrants, you’ll be able to find in nature.

Also, the phase at which you perform the harvest will affect what type of resources you will get. For this to work, the harvesting phase has to have more control - you will be able to adjust when harvesting occurs. Will you go for the ripe phase, or when it’s flowering?

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Let’s take cabbage, as an example - if you want to harvest your regular cabbage piles, wait for the Ripe phase. If you want to harvest seeds from cabbages, you will have to wait for cabbage to go past the Mature phase. Other crops like apples, however, have different rules.

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We’re working on apple trees, but also maple, pine, and oak trees. To plant those trees you’ll need saplings, which you’ll get from cutting down young trees. With their resources, you will be able to produce things like pies, ciders, etc.

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Harvesting and cultivation are expanding, folks - More resources, more control! You could say that it will be a…

fruitful update, once it goes live.

While you wait, we invite you to join our Discord server (if you haven’t done so already!), and share your settlements, game experiences, tips and tricks, partake in photo challenges, show off your heraldry and give feedback on the existing feature, or even suggest a new one. Once in a while, we also offer you a chance to take part in the namin

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

THE THREE FEELINGS RULE OF XIANXIA NOVELS

After reading hundreds of novels I reached the conclusion that (for a male at least) the perfect xianxia novel needs THREE ingredients to engage the reader without boring him on the long term:

1 - STRENGTH : Constant MC drive to Increase his power/strength via cultivation or other means. The greater the obstacles he overcomes, the hardship he endures and the explosion of his power after he strengthened himself, the greater is the psychological reward. Even if the MC is not necessarily power-hungry, he should be forced to react when witnessing the cruelty of strong vicious people against the weak. Xianxia cultivation is the greatest narrative formula ever invented to satisfy the huge human psychological craving toward power, allowing the MC to become an immortal god. But to be exciting cultivation must be challenging, so you should avoid skills like Devour (to absorb enemy cultivation), Soul Scrying or Copy Eyes (to instant learn enemy's techniques or skills) because, like all cheats, those are tension-killers. Also, cultivation degrees must be meaningful and abundant, with many realms each one more awe-inspiring that the last. Dull and shallow cultivation realms, like the nameless 5 tiers of Versatile Mage for example, are a sure recipe for a boring novel. The true voyage of an MC in a xianxia novel is through the realms of the cultivation ladder, so each of those realms must be a marvel. To paraphrase GoT, "Only the ladder is real, the climb is all there is." And this is also why experience based cultivation systems, as in the LitRPG genre novels, are trash compared to xianxia. EXAMPLES: I Shall Seal The Heavens, Against The Gods, Martial God Asura, God of Slaughter, The Desolate Era, Martial World, A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality.

2 - BEAUTY : An unending series of beauties in distress, with saving them as the main motivation to go on with the story. The MC should not be necessary a righteous person, but he should have a soft spot for damsels in distress. The beauties must not necessarily become part of the MC harem, they just need to be grateful to him. Of course the greatest psychological reward is for them to fall in love and have sex with the MC, but it should always require some additional work to conquer a girl's heart and earn a reward from her. Unless you are writing a comedy, 'yandere' girls are tiresome and uninteresting. Also ecchi scenes (involuntary

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Put it on my bill

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

Do your worst!