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In the 1800s, Jersey Island Was Covered With 12-Foot-Tall Kale
Author : netgusto
Score : 40 points
Date : 2022-01-24 08:40 UTC (1 days ago)
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| smackeyacky wrote:
| My favourite recipe for Kale: 1. Heat up a frying
| pan, warm some olive oil and thinly sliced garlic. 2. Chop
| the kale leaves roughly and add to the pan. 3. Saute
| quickly (1-2 minutes max) 4. Scrape the contents of the pan
| into the rubbish bin.
|
| I don't understand the modern obsession with kale, it's an
| objectively terrible food.
| JadeNB wrote:
| This does not seem to contribute much to an article that is not
| about the "modern obsession" with kale and that indicates, if
| anything, that kale is _not_ a mere modern contrivance (though
| perhaps its use as a human food has become rather faddish--a
| fad which it is fortunately easy to avoid simply by not
| partaking).
| skeptical1 wrote:
| It was a joke. Obviously. Jesus, this place is so humorless.
| xwdv wrote:
| Humor is not allowed here.
| skeptical1 wrote:
| I read your comment profile, and know exactly what you
| mean about the "cancel culture." This is the first
| profile I've had here where I've actually managed to get
| a little positive 'karma' built up and avoid immediately
| getting downmodded into oblivion and run out on a rail.
| My very first account here a couple years ago, as a
| bright eyed noob, was literally shadowbanned within 15
| minutes, which absolutely blew my mind.
|
| The moderation system here is seriously broken, and has
| the effect of creating a toxic echo chamber of humorless
| trigger-happy goons. I've read a lot of complaints about
| it in various articles over the years, by names who no
| longer seem to be around. The response always seems to be
| EWONTFIX.
| macintux wrote:
| Every now and then a truly creative, funny joke is
| upvoted heavily. The rest of the time, if I want shallow
| snark I'll visit Reddit.
| JadeNB wrote:
| Indeed. The issue I had here was not that there was a
| joke in a place of solemnity, but that it was an old and
| low-effort joke that also didn't add to the discussion.
| skeptical1 wrote:
| Well then, I'll be sure to make sure any joke I happen to
| post meets with the censors' unanimous approval, and is
| the funniest thing anyone has ever heard, so they don't
| unperson me. It certainly wouldn't do to have any of
| these Very Serious comment threads squabbling for a
| hundred pages about some minor nitpick of no actual
| importance, which are often found littering the comment
| sections here, derailed by any comment of less than
| stellar quality.
|
| By the way, what was this article about again? Kale?
| Growing on an island, years ago? Interesting. Well, I
| don't know anything about that, but I do know the grass
| in the Great Plains USA was taller than a man on
| horseback when European settlers first arrived. Less than
| 150 years later it had all turned to dust, and blew away
| in the wind. I wonder if there is a lesson here.
|
| By the way, I laughed at the joke even though I have
| nothing against kale; but who am I, who is the original
| commentor, and why is our opinion in any way important or
| valuable?
| RC_ITR wrote:
| Skeptical1 goes into a forum aimed at 'hackers,' is
| surprised when they are pedantic and obsessed with
| understanding rules.
|
| There's a punchline somewhere...
| skeptical1 wrote:
| I've seen enough of this crowd to not be surprised at any
| ridiculous thing that happens here. Like having a 50 page
| Very Serious argument back and forth about some minor,
| irrelevant detail, possibly having nothing at all to do
| with the actual article, but a simple joke gets
| downmodded because ZOMG HOW INAPPROPRIATE. Or lest we
| forget, the various articles about things this crowd
| clearly knows nothing about, like politics or economics,
| but everyone has an opinion about anyhow.
|
| By the way, given the frequent gasps of horror which are
| heard here when people are confronted with the horrifying
| suggestion that Microsoft is an evil corporation and
| people should use Linux or BSD instead, along the lines
| of "but I might have to compile my own wifi drivers tho!
| egads!", or those who are appalled at the idea of system
| startup using shell scripts ("the barbarity!") or the
| frequent snarky remarks that C is a terrible, horrible,
| no-good "unsafe" language that is unsuitable for any use
| (despite virtually everything else in the world depending
| on it), etc, etc, it's quite charitable to describe this
| as being a forum for "Hackers." In many cases, it's more
| like just a bunch of pretenders and wannabes.
|
| Now how's that for humor? hehe...
|
| Lynch mob in 3...2...
| bewaretheirs wrote:
| The article had the more constructive suggestion of using it as
| cattle feed and for packaging.
|
| I don't understand kale culture either -- the only way I've
| found to make it edible involves combining it 1:1 by mass with
| bacon.
| bpodgursky wrote:
| It's a better salad base than lettuce.
| buryat wrote:
| how did it taste? i'd imagine horrible otherwise some pre-
| Sweetgreen would use them up for $15 salads
| wil421 wrote:
| I have some of the seeds from this variety of kale. It's called
| walking stick kale. I've been trying to find a place to plant it.
| Havoc wrote:
| Lived there for years & never knew about this.
| matthewmorgan wrote:
| Where's Jersey Island? Is it anywhere near the island of Jersey
| by any chance?
| JadeNB wrote:
| The actual title is "In the 1800s, This British Isle Was
| Covered in Groves of 12-Foot-Tall Kale"; it's not clear why it
| was edited.
| CoastalCoder wrote:
| The original title sounds a bit click-baity to me, so maybe
| that's why.
| Havoc wrote:
| Yeah that's exactly what they mean here.
| [deleted]
| panzagl wrote:
| I saw an old documentary on this called 'Day of the Triffids'...
| FpUser wrote:
| ROFL. I did read the book.
| 34679 wrote:
| I learned this recently from another post here on HN:
|
| "Brassica oleracea is a plant species that includes many common
| cultivars, such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels
| sprouts, collard greens, Savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan."
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea
| nanomonkey wrote:
| These remind me of the tree collards that I grow in my garden.
| Just pull off leaves from the bottom for dinner.
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