Vegetables
Nutrimato
According to wikipedia:Nutrimato would have been a good name for a robot. Not so much for a juice drink.
Green Bay Press Gazette - Nov 8, 1972
Posted By: Alex - Mon Nov 05, 2018 -
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Category: Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, Vegetables, 1970s
Richard Nixon Eggplants
In May 1973, New York magazine ran a photo of an eggplant that looked like Richard Nixon. In 2017, the magazine's blog remembered it as "Maybe the funniest page New York has ever published."But it turns out that there were quite a few other Nixon-resembling eggplants reported in the news in '73 and '74. For a while it was quite the thing to do. I think there are just a lot of eggplants that look like Nixon.
New York Magazine - May 14, 1973
Philadelphia Inquirer - Sep 6, 1974
Gastonia Gazette - Aug 15, 1973
Hartford Courant - July 24, 1973
Denton Record Chronicle - Dec 10, 1973
Posted By: Alex - Wed Aug 29, 2018 -
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Category: Politics, Vegetables, 1970s
Vegetable Orchestra
They've got a great beet!Their website
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jul 16, 2018 -
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Category: Food, Vegetables, Music
Corn with odd number of rows
Hood County News-Tablet - Mar 17, 1966
Ears of corn almost always have an even number of rows. Foodreference.com explains the science:
When corn ears are found that have an odd number of rows, that's considered weird enough to make news. For instance, cases of odd-rowed corn surfaced in 1930 (found by Everett Kelderhouse of Collins, Iowa), 1941 (found by Ignac Sedlacek of Malmo, Nebraska), and 1949 (found by Alfred Kohnert of Calamus, Iowa).
Lincoln Evening Journal - Oct 24, 1941
Carrol Daily Times - Sep 14, 1949
In popular culture, finding odd-rowed corn was sometimes used to make impossible-to-come-true promises. For instance, slaves might be told that they could have their freedom if they could find an ear of corn with an odd number of rows. But in the example below, recounted in Atheism and Arithemetic, Or, Mathematical Law in Nature (1885), one slave supposedly devised a way to find some odd-rowed corn:
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jul 13, 2016 -
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Category: Food, Vegetables
Vertical Farming; Its A Jersey Thing
A facility being built in New Jersey is going to be the world's largest vertical farming plant. AeroFarms is set to be 3 times bigger than the next largest place of its kind located in Japan. Water usage is much lower while yield is substantially higher than standard farming operations. It looks like something that would be used to grow food in a Mars colony or in an underground bunker after Armageddon. But perhaps we will find that solving world hunger is a Jersey thing.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jun 07, 2016 -
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Category: Agriculture, Food, Vegetables, Horticulture and Gardens, Nature
The Popular Pickle
There is so much to love about this video, from the whimsical music which makes it seem as if the cucumbers are just going on holiday, instead of being wrenched from their happy fields and families, then sliced and seasoned for consumption by monstrous hairless apes, to the very phrase "pickle packer." The one omission, understandable in light of 1950s' reticence, is no mention of the cucumber as sex toy.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 10, 2015 -
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Category: Regionalism, Advertising, Industry, Factories and Manufacturing, Farming, Vegetables, Pickles, 1950s
Peas mean something
In 1904, this young lady was dismissed as "demented." Today she might be recognized as a great performance artist.
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern - Apr 12, 1904
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jan 25, 2015 -
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Category: Food, Vegetables, 1900s
Follies of the Madmen #227
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Yes, our product is number one among insane vegan fashionistas!
From Woman's Day for April 1962.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 18, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, Vegetables, 1960s
Mr. Q. Cumber
Some WU-vie sample this and tell me what it tastes like, please. I myself am scared to try.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 17, 2014 -
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Category: Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, Vegetables
Exploding Artichokes
Police have ruled out any kind of artichoke-themed terrorism, theorizing instead that fertilizers on the vegetable may have caused an explosive chemical reaction.
Strangely, this is just the latest in a series of exploding artichokes that have gone off in Italy. Previous incidents occurred in 2003 and 2008. [theregister.co.uk]
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jan 07, 2014 -
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Category: Food, Vegetables
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