• Miles O'Brien
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    81 month ago

    My two least favorite things individually, yet essential to so many delicious things.

    I would immediately use them to make some food and bring it over.

    • Cethin
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      11 month ago

      You dislike tomatoes? They aren’t the best thing plain, but they’re fine. A little salt and they’re pretty good plain.

      I understand not liking onions alone, but I enjoy them. I can’t just eat a whole onion raw on its own, but I do enjoy eating some.

    • @[email protected]
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      121 month ago

      Fry the oinions with some garlic (salt it), cube the tomatoes and let it simmer for an hour or two and you got the worlds best pasta sauce.

      • A Wild Mimic appears!
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        31 month ago

        Pro Tip: if you have some red wine left over (or one that isn’t good for drinking), keep pouring some wine in when the liquid dries up, repeat until the wine is gone. tastes fucking great!

  • @[email protected]
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    71 month ago

    those look like some amazing vegetables, I don’t know much about growing vegetables but I imagine getting them grown like this must take some effort or skill/knowledge

    • Bob Robertson IX
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      71 month ago

      The hardest thing I’ve found with gardening is being able to actually eat everything that gets produced. Either I don’t get to it in time, or too much gets produced, or my life just gets so busy that I don’t have time to cook sometime. The actual growing kinda just takes care of itself in my garden.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month ago

        Fucking zucchinis. I went from building a fence to protect them from the groundhogs to stacking them like firewood in front of the groundhog’s den.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 month ago

          My mother would leave ‘gifts’ of zucchinis on the neighbors doorsteps when it got bad enough XD

    • Cethin
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      31 month ago

      Tomatoes don’t really. Once you get them growing, which is trivial, the largest issue is you get far too many. I’ve never seen anyone grow onions though, so that might be harder. I don’t know.

  • @[email protected]
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    121 month ago

    Mine gave me eggs from her chickens. This is the moment you realize you’ve won the lottery.

    There are some sweet people in the world.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 month ago

    I wonder what dating is like when you have so much money that you already have a garden. When I met my partner we both lived in shared houses.

    • Droechai
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      61 month ago

      You can grow a really nice garden on a balcony or in windows. Tomatoes, cucumber and chili’s are great to start with and then just experiment

    • @[email protected]
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      61 month ago

      People who are actually rich don’t have food gardens, they have flower gardens at best. A roommate of mine had a (very bad) garden when I lived with him, and my now-wife had a small herb garden in an apartment. You can definitely have food gardens in shared houses

      • @[email protected]
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        51 month ago

        I briefly stayed at a multi-millionaire’s place. They did have a herb garden. Nice planters and automated watering systems. All provided and maintained by the groundskeeping company, of course. I sincerely doubt they ever planted anything, they just grabbed herbs when they needed them and instructed people what herbs they wanted.

        I imagine richer people might similarly have food gardens maintained by waitstaff. Maybe not around their primary residence, but what if the desire to cosplay as or claim to be a farmer or plantation owner strikes them?

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      Just walk up to a girl and give her a nice rock you found on the beach. Magic might happen

      • @[email protected]
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        101 month ago

        Can confirm. When i first met my fiance, i gave her a tea box that i filled with pretty rocks, shells, pinecones etc. that i had found and enjoyed. We spent basically every day together for a month, but i already had a move planned and after i moved we drifted apart. Saw eachother maybe once every couple years as friends, and we both had other relationships. Then 6 years later we both got out of long relationships at the same time, ended up reconnecting, and basically immediately moved in together. She still had the box. Now we’ve lived together for 5 years and are getting married soon. Girls like pretty things that you find on the ground, and they like it even more when those pretty things make you think of her.