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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jul 26, 2012 0:43:53 GMT -5
Beets thrived for me this year, and I happened to have planted a lot of them, and kept them well weeded, and watered right, and thinned properly. I have had an abundance of beets all season, both for weekly baskets and for the farmer's market. <steps up onto soapbox> While I appreciate knowing how people liked my vegetables, I probably would be fine if I never heard another story about red pee. I don't need details about what time of day it was, and who else was around, or who got called. Each eater might only tell the story once, but the farmer.... <end soapbox>
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Post by Drahkk on Jul 26, 2012 1:01:59 GMT -5
HA! At least asparagus is only in season a few weeks a year. Have you heard what that stuff does? Huh? ;D MB
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Post by oxbowfarm on Jul 26, 2012 5:34:04 GMT -5
Anti-oxidants doin' em good.
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Post by steev on Jul 26, 2012 10:44:51 GMT -5
Golden beets!
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Post by kwilds on Jul 26, 2012 12:02:47 GMT -5
Lol! I remember the first time I fed my babies beets, after an initial panic I realized what it was but wow. We eat beets a lot so are quite used to the effect on elimination! And then there are blueberries . . .
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Post by blueadzuki on Jul 26, 2012 15:04:34 GMT -5
I still remember the day when my stomach was upset and I found myself "riding the porcelian throne". When I was done, and trurned around to flush my heart literally stopped when I saw the bowl was filled with bright red liquid. I was one second away from screaming for my dad to call 911 or take me to the hospital when I remember that the reason my stomach was upset was that I had pigged out on two boxes of little frozen 3 cheese pastry cups......cups that were dyed bright red with a dye that passed through the digestive system unchanged!
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 26, 2012 22:25:15 GMT -5
Ah Blue, shouldn't you be eating things dyed blue?
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Post by steev on Jul 26, 2012 23:05:43 GMT -5
I really don't know any of you well enough to start sharing stories of my adventures in Latin America, not in this vein.
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Post by rowan on Jul 26, 2012 23:28:27 GMT -5
Aw, c'mon
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Post by Drahkk on Jul 26, 2012 23:53:02 GMT -5
And now it's time for a Pointless Trivia Moment! The aforementioned condition is so common it has a medical name: Beeturia!This has been your daily Pointless Trivia Moment. Thanks for reading. My wife often tells me I'm an encyclopaedia of useless knowledge. At least I hope that's what she means by "full of it"... MB
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Post by steev on Jul 31, 2012 1:39:14 GMT -5
Pointless trivia is a relative concept. While I may be Southernesque ethnocentric ( 'K, I'm determinatively so), when one lives in an environment that encourages, even requires, passing time socializing (even with family), without constant external input (as one may be subjected to in modern urban environments), the breadth of one's field of inspiration, the wellspring of one's fount of invention for entertainment, is vital to not only the avoidance of boredom, but to the development of of subtlety of expression and nuance. In short, there is bullshit, and then there is bullshit which is,as it were, a verbal pearl, layered around some bit of factual grit. The trick is to have a multiplicitude of bits of grit on which to build the pearls.
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Post by steev on Jul 31, 2012 21:14:13 GMT -5
Waitaminnit! If it's a medical term, shouldn't it be Betaurea? Are you having us on, sir?!
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