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different clue
Header: couple of apolitical winter projects.
This winter we had a cold “dry” snow like what we used to have in years past. So I got to push some together into staging piles with my Ergo Sleigh brand yooper scooper.
Here is a picture of the Ergo Sleigh.
https://holtbuilderssupply.com/p/yukon-ergo-sleigh-snow-shovel-with-steel-u-handle-wide-poly-blade-055636816655
Here is a video about how to use the Ergo Sleigh.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=sfp&p=you+tube+using+the+ergo+sleigh#id=3&vid=29e4a1ffaf40236556c594128878cc7e&action=click
When the nights were getting sub-zero ( in natural organic Fahrenheit degrees) I poured a bottle of balsamic vinegar into a wide shallow pan and set it out overnight for a couple of nights to see if some of the water would freeze out of it onto a pure ice layer on top, leaving behind the thickened balsamic vinegar part. What happened was, thousands of tiny flat ice flakes formed throughout the balsamac vinegar, turning it into a balsamic slushy. The ice on the top had a little less balsamic in among the ice flakes and there was some thicker nearly iceless balsamic “syrup” on the bottom. So I squeezed what balsamic I could out of the ice mass and washed it with a little water to get a little more balsamic off the ice flakes without remelting them all the way. And then I boiled down the ice flakes separately to get and thicken up the residual balsmic among the ice flakes. And put it back into the rest of the slightly thickened balsamic.
So . . . what did I l learn? It barely works, kinda, but it is not worth the effort and I won’t do it again. Also , boiled-down balsamic vinegar is extremely attractive to fruit flies. I may try attracting all my fruit flies to one spot with some boiled down balsamic vinegar. If I do, I will give a report.
Just yesterday, I trimmed and groomed that little wild raspberry patch that I have been tending. I cut down some canes to open it up, and I shortened the canes left standing to be more approachable and manageable. And cut out all of last year’s dead canes. I will see if the shortened canes left standing bear better and more easily pickable.
different clue
Here is an interesting question raised by a “millenial” (maybe) on the millenials subreddit.
” Which food has declined the most in terms of taste since you first ate it?
Discussion
At this point, everyone knows about shrinkflation in our food. Something else that is just as important, if not more so, is the overall decline in the quality and taste of our food. Which food has declined the most in terms of taste since you first ate it? For me, that would be strawberries. Nowadays, it’s the number 1 fruit with the most pesticides, and its overall taste is just average at best. I mean, I don’t need it to be on par with Japanese strawberries, but in the early 90s, strawberries’ overall taste was just magical. ”
https://www.reddit.com/r/Millennials/comments/1rhdspi/which_food_has_declined_the_most_in_terms_of/
If millenials are noticing this, are genzees noticing it? Or are they too young to have ever known anything different? Even if they are, they can read things like this and wonder what they have lost by never having had.
At what point does awareness of this reach a critical tipping-point massload of people to where there is a vast increase in the amount of personal gardening for a little bit of taste, followed by high-information personal gardening to further increase the taste levels? And if a few tens of millions of high-information gardeners discover and learn what food “can” taste like and “should” taste like, will they begin demanding the same from the “market economy”? Will they be willing to pay the higher prices needed for higher quality food to be grown and delivered? To whatever extent their limited budgets allow?