Y’know Lamb’s Quarter? A common weed throughout the continental US, tolerant of a wide variety of soil conditions including the nutrient-poor and compacted soils common in cities, to the point where it thrives in empty lots?
These plants are close relatives, and produce extremely similar seeds. Lamb’s quarter could easily be grown across the US, in people’s backyard and community gardens, as a low-cost and local alternative to quinoa with no sketchy geopolitical impacts. You literally don’t have to nurture it at all, it’s a goddamn weed, it’ll be fine. Put it where your lawn was, it’ll probably grow better than the grass did. AND you can eat the leaves – they taste almost exactly like spinach.
This just… drives home, again, that a huge part of the appeal of “superfoods” is the sense of the exotic. For whatever nutritional benefits quinoa does have, the marketing strategy is still driven by an undercurrent of orientalism. You too could eat this food, grown laboriously by farmers in the remote Andes mountains! You too could grow strong on the staple crop that has sustained them for centuries! And, y’know, destroy that stable food system in the process. Or you could eat this near-identical plant you found in your backyard.
I wrote over 2600 words on my thesis today. No i am not joking or kidding. No I am not on any drugs or even caffeine. I just sat down and wrote. This is hands down the most productive day of my life. We will never see it’s like again.
Reblog to give urself the power of productive days. Ignore to still get the power of productive days because you have seen this post it will bless you and your mind anyway. But just know ur a lil shit for not sharing the power of productive days with your pals.
“all star” by smash mouth, but only using the sounds and beats on my synth (and also anthony “ten second songs” vincent on some other instruments) these titles are getting too long
How many people are gonna have this as either their new wallpaper/icon/lockscreen/etc.?
ABSOLUTELY NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON.
hey quick question why must humans experience suffering?
If you have played Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, you may remember Luigi’s stories of his travels in the Waffle Kingdom. Have you ever wished to actually see his adventure unfold, rather than merely read about it? If yes, I have a comic for you.
Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass is a webcomic by Supper Mario Broth that intends to retell the story of Luigi’s voyage to the Waffle Kingdom in comic form. Extreme care is taken to reproduce the visual style of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door as closely as possible, while featuring many well-known, lesser-known and original characters.
While this might not be the usual Supper Mario Broth content, I hope my readers will understand that this project has been in the works for many years and is very important to me. I hope to be able to deliver a comic that will do Luigi’s story justice, and I take all comments and feedback that I receive to heart.
me: “The entrance of my hometown has a shrimp boat sitting in the main street. At Christmas theres a shrimper Santa and alligators pulling him instead of reindeer.”
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