# Mods, take some time off. This thread’s for hijackin’ **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 16, 2022, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057 "2022-11-16T23:48:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057/127 "2022-11-20T21:08:30Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Is the meddlar that fruit with the bletting? The very same. j ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057/128 "2022-11-20T21:08:50Z")
Added to my list! Thanks! ETA: Only one “d”, sure. Still proud that I remembered the word bletting 😀 ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057/129 "2022-11-20T22:18:41Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > > [@thorny\_locust](#): > > > > Some lettuce has flavor that isn’t bitterness! > > Care to expand? I’m not good at describing flavors. I grow a batch of different lettuces; leaf, romaine, bibb, summer crisp. No iceberg – that’s hard to grow well here, and I don’t like it much anyway; it usually really is flavorless. The ones I grow do have flavor, though it’s often subtle. Sunset in particular is a really good tasting lettuce – it’s a red leaf lettuce – but you almost certainly can’t find it, though you could try a good farmers’ market. It’s hard even to find seed for, though; I’m saving my own on that variety. > [@Treppenwitz](#): > > if anyone else is willing to reveal how many apples they’ve eaten this year, I’m all ears. More than zero but less than six would be interesting. I won’t be very interesting then. I don’t know how many, but it’s certainly more than six, and will be increasing; apples store better than most fruit, and I eat more of them in late fall and winter, after the softer fruits have gone by. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057/130 "2022-11-20T23:10:50Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > … > By the way, if anyone else is willing to reveal how many apples they’ve eaten this year, I’m all ears. More than zero but less than six would be interesting. I don’t have a written record of my apple count, but it’s about 2. Definitely more than zero and definitely less than 6. I enjoy the taste & crunch of a good one. But since I became diabetic, they’re mostly too much concentrated sweet for my blood. And even a small ordinary apple is far larger than I can withstand as a single serving. A couple of years ago for awhile the groc store sold bags of mini apples as healthy lunchbox stuffers for little kids. Maybe 20% bigger than a plum. I had high hopes, but they’d also been bred to be stupid sweet & still tore me up. So I don’t buy apples at the groc store and therefore don’t have them to eat at home. Apples eaten out in public are also very rare for me, since I don’t eat anything that remotely resembles a dessert. For the same damned reason. Once in a great while when I’m traveling I simply need to eat something and an apple is the least dangerous thing on sale at the only open convenience store within miles. So I’ll buy one, eat a couple bites and pitch the rest. That’s where my annual total of “about 2” comes from. If I had a magic diabetes erasing wand I’d probably eat a golden delicious every couple of days. Not anymore. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057/131 "2022-11-20T23:18:08Z")
While I do eat apple slices, I rarely eat whole apples. When I was growing up we had apple trees and peach trees in the yard. I would eat peaches from the peach tree but not the apples from the apple tree. The apple tree was second base for the front yard baseball games. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057/132 "2022-11-20T23:29:50Z")
I’m considering planting a persimmon tree. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057/133 "2022-11-20T23:40:52Z")
You have my permission. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057/134 "2022-11-20T23:47:16Z")
The landscapers are putting in a dwarf lime and a dwarf pomegranate this Spring. The fruit is a bonus. The scent in the Spring will be magnificent! ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057/135 "2022-11-20T23:59:21Z")
You people, with all your fertile dirt showing off. Here, we aspire to reaching [the level of Moe’s dirt](https://www.google.com/search?q=moe+is+lower+than+dirt&rlz=1C1ONGR_enUS998US998&oq=moe+is+lower+than+dirt&aqs=chrome..69i57.2864j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:cee78902,vid:bZ1QOoWn764), much less all that fancy store bought stuff… As for apples, it’s really seasonal for me. I do agree that store apples generally run from the cheap, nearly flavorless red delicious / granny smith, to the oversweet (but at least flavorful) honeycrisp, making it a hard choice. My wife will eat a few dozen of the latter a year, sliced, and I’ll steal maybe 1-2 slices of hers. But my vice is baked apples, which I blame on growing up in the North East part of the country. [This](https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/baked_apples/) is the closest to what I do online, but I drop the raisins, add some dark rum (Old Plantation normally) and top with a homemade butter and rolled oat streusel. Thankfully, I normally only do it once or twice a month Novemberish-February, because that was the season my family made such things. Then it’ll be a few slices off the spouse’s apples for the rest of the year. And I don’t eat whole apples out of hand anymore because I cannot STAND stuff stuck in my teeth which always happens - same way I won’t eat corn on the cob unless I’m home and can immediately floss sinus-deep to alleviate the discomfort! ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057/136 "2022-11-21T00:47:16Z")
I currently have something like 20 apples in my fridge. 7 of them are destined to be in a pie for Thanksgiving - most likely an apple pie 😅 The rest, I’ll eat. In the mean time - do you (generic) prefer a crumb crust or a rolled-out crust for your pie? ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057/137 "2022-11-21T01:20:54Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > do you (generic) prefer a crumb crust or a rolled-out crust for your pie? Rolled, please. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057/138 "2022-11-21T02:16:57Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > Rolled, please. - Ditto! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057/139 "2022-11-21T02:32:27Z")
> [@cincinnatus](#): > > @digs , you came close to getting a Cincinnatus Frown, but you came through at the end. ::phew!:: I’d stayed away in case you’d frowned @me. Thanks for relenting. . PS, I spent way too much time buying a scraper at Home Depot… the line was a mile long, full of people with cartfuls and carts full of Christmas decorations. Geez, people! Pumpkins, _then_ Turkey, _THEN_ Santa! ---
**Author:** ![cincinnatus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cincinnatus/32/7990_2.png) [@cincinnatus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cincinnatus)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057/140 "2022-11-21T03:53:46Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Or who owns a pony I could borrow for some experiments. A big tip o’ th’ hat to annexplary hijacker. 🎩 ---
**Author:** ![cincinnatus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cincinnatus/32/7990_2.png) [@cincinnatus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cincinnatus)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057/141 "2022-11-21T04:07:10Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > If lettuce was still proper you would never have heard of rocket/arugula/eruca. I always thought “arugula” was the sound of and old car horn. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057/142 "2022-11-21T10:51:59Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I don’t have a written record of my apple count, but it’s about 2. Definitely more than zero and definitely less than 6. That’s an impressively low non-zero result. Too bad it’s a health related thing. Me? I don’t like apples. _Except_ Egremont Russets (the apple that doesn’t taste like apple) - and you’ll only see them briefly and in specialist shops/stalls. It’s pretty easy to keep track of how many I eat. As for cooked apples - can’t even stand the smell! Now… Normandy “apple brandy” is called Calvados - that’s fairly well known. Less well known - the Breton equivalent is called Lambig. I have a bottle of each. I’m very fickle about apples. j ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057/143 "2022-11-21T13:20:37Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > The landscapers are putting in a dwarf lime and a dwarf pomegranate this Spring. The fruit is a bonus. The scent in the Spring will be magnificent! Now I’ve got calypso music playing in my head while a large very black man with a shaved head and a gigantic smile is singing > Poot de lime in de pomegranate; dreenk eet all oop! It’s been stuck in my head for a few minutes now while I read the thread. So I thought I’d share. You’re all welcome. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057/144 "2022-11-21T14:05:01Z")
This hijack intentionally left blank ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057/145 "2022-11-21T14:06:27Z")
It doesn’t look blank or even like a hijack. Friggin IBM’re ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057/146 "2022-11-21T14:09:34Z")
It actually looked blank when I originally posted it, enclosed in \<\> symbols. I assumed it was some Discourse markup thing, and I didn’t want to confuse the thread or have my brilliant post be ignored because of it 😅 Note that there is NOT a blank line above this. There is text there. Really. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-take-some-time-off-this-thread-s-for-hijackin/975057.md?page=8)