Posted on 01/31/2024 11:21:35 AM PST by Red Badger
I think they needed to use the word “petrified.”
There’s an old story about sardine trading when the sardines disappeared from around Monterey, California. The commodity traders bid them up and the price of a can of sardines soared. Some reporter tracked the price of one specific can. After about five different investors having bought a specific can, the current owner treated himself to an expensive meal and actually opened a can and started eating. He immediately became ill and told the seller the sardines were no good. The seller said, “Oh, You don’t understand. These are not eating sardines, they are investing sardines.”‘
Would the seeds still be viable and able to grow?
What a story someone could write about this one... Italian immigrant Pietro Luigi Franchini finds himself in the countryside of early 18th century England... a stranger in a strange land... when he encounters and falls madly in love with beautiful Shropshire lass Elizabeth Baxter. Nearly penniless but desperate to woo the fair Miss Baxter with a gift, Franchini plucks a lemon from a local tree and carefully inscribes it...
That’s what I would like to know.
They have germinated wheat seeds found in Egyptian tombs after a few thousand years, so why not?..............
While the seeds may not be viable, they may be able to use the DNA to resurrect an old variety. Some amazing things can be done with genetics these days.
Whether they should or not is another issue.
Someone bought Biden?
Excellent. The world could use more romantic visionaries.
Rind-McNally publishers ought to be willing to branch out for that story.
I was going to toss this 2 month old one in my fridge....think I’ll give it to my future offspring
Just toss it into your sock drawer and forget it was ever there.....................
I’ve got some stuff in the back of the fridge they might be interested in.
At $1800.00 the primary thing is to remember to tell the maid what it is.
Not so happy with some of the other things they are doing.
I am very curious as to why it didn’t rot. The name is still visible. What a cool story actually. Very romantic.
Did American Motors make it?
It was probably a gift brought from the West Indies inscribed for a special holiday such as Christmastide and held so dear by the receiver of the gift it was never eaten.
Of course the British Navy consumed limes and drank lime juice daily but they had protected the trade routes and had access to all that exoctic stuff.
“I’ve got some stuff in the back of the fridge they might be interested in.”
Mamma’s frigidaire had vintage condiments and cheese. We would clean it out on the sly bit by bit and some the old stuff in there... we’re talking 10-15 year old tidbits of something in a jar and I think the oldest thing we found was a small hunk hard cheese that was at least 20.
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