When life gives ya lemons.
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orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
reev@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
We’re all so fucking sick of our lemons! Yeah they got so sour, please take them away. No it ain’t too much to be wishing for better, cause I’d sooner dry right up than make lemonade from this.
Source: Lemonade - Fox Stevenson
Hackworth@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Where’s the lime?
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
In the coconut.
blackbrook@mander.xyz 11 hours ago
Lemon x mexican (key) lime
Hackworth@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Good catch, edited the comment to include limes.
pyre@lemmy.world 1 day ago
shout-out to pomelo, fucking og i never even heard of, responsible for two of my favorite fruits
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I always thought pomelo was some kind of over bred accident that was trying to be passed off as gourmet citrus with its two inch thick pith and its disappointing flavor. I suppose it gets a pass as it’s an actual naturally occurring fruit.
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 17 hours ago
rape fruit? 😱
JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
As far as I remember, it tastes like a slightly sour lemon.
Mexigore@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Did you make this?
Hackworth@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Nah, it’s from wikipedia.
alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I was today years old when I realised that “When life gives you lemons” might be a metaphor for bitter/sour situations you experience but are outaide your own control…
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
What did you think the expression meant?
Like if life gives you oranges, make orange juice, just because that’s what it’s made with?
vritrahan@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yes
hex@programming.dev 1 day ago
Yeah i always just took it for granted too
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Evolution by artificial selection is still evolution.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yeah, they should’ve have specified natural evolution.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It’s not even selection, though.
We grafted those citruses into existence.
They’re delicious Frankenstein style abominations unto nature.
ChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
What even is “natural”? Aren’t humans part of nature? If a wolf kills all white rabbits and rabbits become black thats natural selection, but if a human chooses which animals/plants get to reproduce it isn’t? I say its still natural, as is climate change and any other thing human made. (Which doesn’t mean it is good and we should continue doing it)
flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 day ago
It is different if it is a passive or active process though. The initial question is, in how far lemons benefit from this evolved trait. The benefits might be very different between passive or active evolution here. If it were passive, lemon plants might benefit by avoiding some disadvantageous animal species feeding on them. As it is active though, the benefit is that they are grown more by humans. The feedback loop between evolution and trait selection is very different if it is active or passive I’d say.
MTK@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Also, not all animals experience sour taste in the same way. For example rats actually love eating lemons! There are literally guides online on how to stop them!
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 18 hours ago
you don’t even need to resort to other animals, lots of humans are fucked and will happily suck on a lemon wedge with 0 indication that it’s remotely sour
like, i enjoy sour stuff, but if i touch my tongue to a raw lemon my entire face inverts
Tomassci@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Same goes for chilli peppers, which aren’t hot for birds, since their receptors are incompatible
MTK@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Cool Thing about that is that the theory is that it was selected for exactly to ward off non birds so that only birds eat it and the seeds go further!
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This just vindicates my long time thought: people make their own problems.
CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“LEMONS?!”
🫢 humpf
😮💦🍋 phaaaoce@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Completing the circle with le citron de Menton, that is mild and sweet enough to be eaten raw with the peel. bbc.com/…/20220328-the-return-of-frances-lost-men…
shmanio@lemmy.world 1 day ago
For the 40k fans: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNEzD5n6SAs
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Life didn’t give me lemons, my goddamn ancestors did
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 day ago
So then why are citrons sour?
lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 day ago
I wonder if that isn’t a protection against mould reaching the seeds.
winkly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
When life gives you sour fruit, make better sour fruits!
anubis119@lemmy.world 1 day ago
When life gives you lemons, take credit.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 day ago
It was the scientists all along!
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My understanding is lemons are a hybrid that arose without human intervention. Their persistence is because of humans intervention.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
According to Wikipedia lemons have been around for about 2000 to 3000 years old.
58008@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Etterra@discuss.online 1 day ago
This exemplifies everything that’s wrong with our species.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 1 day ago
When we give life lemons, what is life meant to do?
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
In a more general way, other creatures don’t experience taste the same way we do.
Bird poop is really nutritious to seeds. It makes sense for those plants to be eaten by birds (with the seed passing through the digestive tract untouched), but avoid other creatures.
Enter capcasin. Mammals find it intolerable (except for one subset of a goofy bipedal species), but birds love that shit.
CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I know someone with a dog that loves jalapenos. So its not just us.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A friend of mine has a dog who likes to chew on large landscaping rocks. The vet said to put hot sauce on the ones in the yard. Dog was like “OMG, you SEASONED them for ME???” cromch cromch cromch
smeg@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Also birds fly, meaning they tend to disperse the seeds further
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 1 day ago
Tree Shrews also seem to enjoy it. Though they have a genetic mutation that makes them less sensitive to capcasin.