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> More specifically, it was about why the carrot is orange.

> That's not why virtually all carrots sold in grocery stores and farmer's markets are orange.

> The orange traveled west and was called the narang in Persia.

> The fruit is responsible for naming the color, but we're still not to the reason virtually all carrots are orange.

> When a man named William the Silent from Nassau inherited the rule in Orange in 1544, he became William of Orange.

> "You could get their carrots in white or yellow or purple. Then in the 17th century a breed of carrot was developed that had a lot of beta-Carotene and was orange. And the Dutch started growing this in great abundance in tribute to William of Orange to such a degree that almost all other forms of carrot had gone out of mass agricultural production...in this very roundabout way our carrots are orange because our oranges are orange, and they've been that way for political reasons."

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Ive read 100 posts online and I don't believe for a second that enemies are spawning in to my fenced field, eating all of my turnips, not touching a single onion or carrot and then de-spawning.

This is the third time now that I have to go wander around looking for turnip seeds and I'm frankly pissed.

Where are my turnips going. This has got to be a bug.

What exactly is a culinary ethnography?

Food is many things, to many people. What exactly that thing is, says a lot about that group of people as a whole. What we eat is a huge part of who we are, who we’ve been, and what we experience as we encounter the new. In my 90 years, I have done my best to experience first hand the many, many ways that each denizen of the Forgotten Realms decides to break bread.

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 so far.

-Adelbert Boffin, Halfling Culinarian

First things first, as a disclaimer of all Culinary Ethnography entries, let’s set some caveats. Who are Elves? Am I including Half-Elves? Drow? All those of Elven lineage? All those of Elven parentage back to the Fae themselves? While I would like to eventually include more varied looks at the similarities and differences between all of these groups, for the purposes of this analysis, I will be looking at those Elves that live in, or near the Faewild in particular. As always, this is a look at some of the major trends I have seen occur. It is not a rulebook that one must follow to be a “proper Elf” in the kitchen. Food is as much culture as it is history, geography, necessity, community, and personal freedom. With that out of the way, let’s give this culture a respectful look.

Living off the Land

To truly understand the cuisine of the Elves, it is important to first understand where their sustenance is derived from. While this maxim is true of all races, it holds even greater weight with Elves. Food culture is derived from the culmination of necessity and environment and the environment that most Elves live in is one of true bounty, allowing for a more “particular” palate. After all, it is much easier to only eat things that taste good, when starvation is not on the line. Not many races can claim the same abundance, leading to a rather unique culinary culture.

The first subject of note is that Elves do not take part in animal husbandry. From Dwarves, to Humans, to Orcs, you can see some sort of animal that is a mainstay in their diet in some form or another. As always, this is co

Hello IMAM! I’m super happy to be back with yet another doozy of rambling scent reviews. u/JoshuaCobalt (Josh) from Nui Cobalt was generous enough to reach out to me and asked if I’d be interested in receiving some of their products in exchange for reviews, and the answer was, of course, a resounding YES (we are not talking about the excited squeal I let out that probably sounded like a dying pig). He was kind enough to let me pick out exactly which products I wanted to try, so below are some thoughts on varying scents from their Astrology and Yule collections, as well as one of their GC scents.

I’ve got pictures on my IG here, if anyone was interested in seeing those!

Before we get to those, in case you might be unfamiliar with NCD perfumes, I thought I’d say a word about my experiences with them so far. Starting with their website, they definitely have one of the more easier to explore sites compared to some other indie brands; I really appreciate how they have both a master scent list and a tab that lets you navigate their different collections. Their scent descriptions, while poetic, are not overtly lengthy or hard to parse and it’s very easy to look up fragrances by searching up notes. They offer 1 mL sample sizes of all of their scents, as well as 5 mL bottles. I really appreciate their lack of FOMO as well; they release returning collections every month or so, and new scents get added to these collections every year while the oldest scents of the collection get retired, though that doesn’t happen until a while so you really can take your time to test out what scents you like. Their TAT is lightning fast, my packages usually ship within a day or so, and their packaging, while minimal, is always secure and they include a handwritten thank you note with each order. Each order also comes with a random free sample, which is always nice to get. They have always been super professional and courteous whenever I reach out to them through their customer service email. In terms of their scents, I have a very high hit rate with them, something about the way they do perfumes just really tends to work for me. I honestly think out of my entire collection, I have the most scents from this company, which is saying something considering the absurd amount of samples I am amassing. I think they really excel at well-blended and soothing scents, and I especially love their perfumes that have church type incense, cashmere/wool

It’s that time of year again. In fact, most Jehovah’s Witnesses have been busily cringing for a couple of months now. You can call us grinches or whatever, but the fact of the matter is that every time we go to the store, turn on the radio, or drive down the street... we’re pelted into submission until it’s all we can do to shut our eyes, stuff our ears, and hum song number 23 or whatever. It’s frick’n Christmas again and most of us Witnesses can’t bloody stand it. Good thing it’s almost over, right? I wouldn’t be surprised if others shared the sentiment, but I bet not all care for the same reasons. This thought leads down an interesting road.

Why do we steer so far clear of it we fail to even realize that our problem with Christmas isn’t Christmas itself... It’s us? I know that doesn’t make a lick of sense, but hear me out. We say, “Christmas is a pagan holiday, and so we’ll have nothing to do with it.” but we conveniently forget that everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, is a pagan something. People in the know say, “Well, we have to have a balanced life, and so we can’t avoid EVERYTHING.”

Why not, I ask? If we are to be no part of the world, and everything in this world has pagan origins, why not avoid it all? Is ignorance of the law excuse for breaking it?

So then… We ignore the things that are inconvenient because they make our lives easier. We’ll buy a Starbucks knowing full well the symbolism behind that company’s logo, or a drink Monster energy drink knowing that the Hebrew form of 666 is pasted right on the can. We’ll make excuses and allowances for the things that matter to us, because they matter to us and no one else cares. Why should they? God doesn’t care about a number on a can or a mythical creature, does he? What about all the other things? Chocolate for one: first domesticated and cultivated by man as part of a worship ceremony to false gods, employed by the same people that ripped beating hearts out of still living victims. They even used the Chocolate seeds as currency for sex in that culture. The wedding cake stems from a worship ritual of a Greek goddess. Until today, you probably never knew that building snowmen was once a pagan ritual used to bring pleasant weather from sky nymphs in Russia or used to scare away Christians by the barbarians of sax-age Germany. No one looks at a friendly snowman with his scarf and his carrot saying, “God’s not gonna be happy about this”. Why not? Surely he knows what we used them for in the past. He

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.

I read a crappy business book citing the House of Orange as "branding" carrots. Don't ask, it was a terrible book. After doing a bit of googling, it seems there's a widespread understanding of a connection between the orangification of carrots and the House of Orange, but not a lot of hard evidence.

So why, exactly, did orange carrots catch on to such an extent? Surely someone outside of Holland wanted to continue growing purple carrots?

- 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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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

It's a new year, and my replay has also caught up to a new year: 2017. We begin the new year with three games from existing franchises which all represent a sort of fresh start for their respective IPs.

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Resident Evil VII: Biohazard (2017)

When RE6 was generally considered a low point for the series, Capcom turned to the PT craze for inspiration on how to reinvigorate the Resident Evil franchise. Featuring first-person gameplay for the first time and return to a more classic pacing compared to 6, RE7 does everything it can to feel like a fresh start.

Let's start with the setting. Down in the swamps of Louisiana, you find yourself invading a creepy and seemingly abandoned home, which in true RE tradition is in truly disgusting condition. Everything about the place gives off overt vibes to just GTFO from moment one, setting a wonderful tone of what's to come. Once things really get going, you're moved to the family's proper manor and property, which is designed particularly well to feel more grandiose as you discover more areas. The franchise's signature elaborate keys and puzzles serve as benchmarks which add to the player's transforming understanding of what kind of a rabbit hole they've fallen into. I found the game paced exceptionally well to allow the level design and general ambiance a subconscious role in making the player feel as sense of progression even while falling deeper into quicksand.

Now let's talk characters. The Baker family all are terrifying in their own ways, even as they often are referencing scenes of tropes of horror movies (particularly, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre). Whether it's the undying slasher menace of the father, the controlling parasite mother, or the immensely unsettling stillness of the grandmother, everyone in the family does their part to give you a variety of ways to clinch your butt. Even Zoey immediately feels like a carrot being dangled to lure you into a trap. Ethan and Mia of course have to be noted as well. I think the game is overall fairly sloppy when it comes to these two. First off, let's just address the weird decision to have Ethan's hand chopped off and stapled back on again without that truly affecting him in any way whatsoever. You'd be forgiven if you forgot that it even happened at all. Then there's Mia. While it's interesting to exp

It’s been a hot minute since I’ve done a dedicated review post, and I’m back again with Nui Cobalt reviews. This review post is exclusively on samples I received as press release from Nui Cobalt. However, I have a large Nui Cobalt collection, the majority of which was purchased with my own money, and all of my opinions in this post (and my previous PR reviews) are my own, honest opinions.

Unfortunately, I fell behind and so a bunch of these perfumes are not currently available for purchase as the collections came down. However, once of the beautiful things about Nui Cobalt is that they frequently bring back popular perfumes, and their collections are available for a long period of time. So if you see something you are interested in and it’s gone, it’s probably not gone forever! The Autumn 2021 collection remains up until sometime in February I believe, so there's still time for perfumes from that category. :)

My Experience with Nui Cobalt and Perfume Preferences

I've talked about this previously, but I heard about Nui Cobalt through IMAM and my first purchase was from the 2020 Bees Collection when I fell in love with Liquid Luck. From there on, Nui Cobalt has become one of my favourite perfume houses. I appreciate the creativity behind the collections, how Forest sets intentions for each perfume, the lack of FOMO, excellent customer service, and speedy shipping.

In terms of my perfume preferences, I prefer high longevity (i.e., a work day at minimum) and sillage is less important to me. I'm generally open to different notes and trying new ones, but I primarily gravitate towards florals (particularly white florals), forest scents, and certain gourmands. I personally enjoy powder notes in a perfume. I find that I amp smoke, oudh, and motor oil / grease.

My experience with Nui Cobalt perfumes is that they typically have low-medium sillage (though some have higher sillage) with good wafting but not overpowering. Longevity is also usually a full work day.

Fae Folk and Otherworldly Beings 2021

Huldra (Notes: An ode to the woodland seductress of Scandinavian legend whose name translates to "The Hidden." Slender white birch limbs, lily of the valley, pale angelica glistening with dew, cloud berry, and icy moonlit waters)

• Bottle (🧪): Opens with a soapy scent, may be the birch
• Wet (💧): Soapy, with a hint of fruit (cloud berry?)
• Dry (🌵): The lily of the valley notes come through as the perfume dries
• Performance (📈): Low sillage and lo

Do your worst!

Hey all,

[TL/DR] Guide rails set at 1m above ground 1.5 m apart have sped up my sowing and harvesting of carrot crops by about 12% at about a 5% cost in crop density over my initial practice.

I have just started taming boars to build up a supply of food and leather that allows me to focus on activity other than subsistence hunting. The boars themselves weren't that challenging to gather, I just got their agro, blocked with a tower shield, and lead them back to the pen I had built. I am aware that there are "boar machine" systems that make boar farming much easier, but for the moment I have them in a typical 314 sq m paddock.

What turned out to be a real drag was planting carrots to feed said boars. I found that I was getting bogged down in spacing, and since over a 314 sq m paddock I might be planting 750+ seeds, and sometimes they would need more room, blah blah. Likewise, harvesting was a drag, nearly 1000 keypresses to clear the plot.

Of course, there are a lot of timedrags, but I did some notepad math and discovered that my greatest time savings would probably emerge from improving my per seed sow/harvest time. So I decided to get a "human factors" engineering bug up my ass and try and trim some ticks off of each plant/harvest action. So I tinkered with guide rail designs to try and make straight lines I could simply run along while spamming seeds into the ground.

The first guide rails I did were low to the ground and at 2m width apart. This worked, but there was a lot of wasted space in between rows, the rows could have been much closer together. More math showed me that I would lose so much crop density at the 2m interval that I'd basically have to build a second 314 farm plot to keep up with projected boar hunger.

The second guide rails I attempted were at 1m interval. These failed, simply because my character could not fit between the rails to run down them spamming seeds.

The third guide rails I attempted were at 1.5 m interval. People have already told me "You must be modding" but actually getting the 1.5 m interval was a little subtle but not that hard. Basically, I put a 1m and 2m beam on each other across my desired path, aim the beam I am trying to place ALONG my path at the joint between the 1 and 2m beam, and wait for it to snap away as I move my crosshairs into the 2m beam. When it finally snaps away from the joint, the point you are aiming at the the beam is the 1.5 m mark on the 3m length. Stick your rail right there and you h

They were cooked in Greece.

1x1 to 2x2 to 3x3. Also an easy way for the game to communicate proper spacing. If the grid is to strong at least let us upgrade to 3 in a row. I know it could be modded, but since it's early access I'd love to have it added. It would make farming much less tedious, especially for multi player servers.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

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!!!"

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!

(A/N): sorry for the delete/repost not very good at posting from mobile. Posted title with no body. Anyway, thinking about my post about flexibility made me think about something else I recently had my eyes opened to, and was sickened by.

FULL DISCLOSURE: I had a lot to say, so this post is three pages long. I assure you it's worth the read, but just wanna say that now for those who, for whatever reason, don't like short story-length posts. I will respectfully ask you all to read this though. It's not any more or less important than any other post on here, and I don't mean to make myself special, because I'm not, I just...really need to be heard. I don't know why, I just need to tell this story. So please. I don't wanna beg, but...well anyway...

Also, it's about bartending/serving, so if there's another subs I can post this about what it's like to work in service/the night life/gastronomy/etc. I'll happily cross post.

I recently left a job at a bar in Europe (no I won't say which one, don't ask). I personally left on cordial, professional terms, but I'm not talking about me, I'm talking about one of my coworkers that was ran so ragged, her hair started falling out at 21, due to work stress. And the more I thought about her, the more I realized that she wasn't the first girl to be worked into the ground like this, and that my boss literally has a system for how to cultivate, hire, employ, and discard these young women. NOTE: I don't think I specify this later but just so we're clear, boss is a woman in her mid-thirties.

Befriend a girl who drinks at your bar. They're what you'd expect: cute, bubbly, friendly, 18-21 years old, hard working, smart...but also, because they're so young and therefore ignorant, they don't know how to set boundaries, don't know how to say no, far too trusting and want to please everybody. Let me also state that ignorance itself isn't bad – we are all ignorant of something, if we weren't, we'd know everything – so I'm not calling these girls stupid, because they're not, just...well hell, how many of us had stuff figured out as teenagers?

Hire them. Instantly they become “the mascot”, the “baby”, they get fawned over and adored. They become super popular with the customers and the staff alike. Everyone knows and likes them. They start making truly impressive money in tips, faithfully, consistently, every night they work. Boss can now say things like “see how I take care of you? I told you you'd make so much money if you worked

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

Day 216 (or something) I find out you can plant carrots (and other things) to get new seeds. Before this I went for carrot seed run's in the Black Forest whenever I needed carrots for foods, wait for them to grow, make foods, eat them, rinse and repeat.

A whole new world has opened for me!

^(I'll ignore the fact I was to stupid to well, just read.)