Mutant stem rust may cause a wheat supply crisis

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2008-04-11 09:13pm

They're eating butter and dirt cookies in Haiti right now due to high food costs; butter, salt, and mud is a recipe I doubt that will be making the SDN Recipe Thread anytime soon.

Yet another reason I feel ill when I waste food.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2008-04-11 09:15pm

I guess it's time to switch to Ahriman.

don't worry the grain is tasty, resistant to fungus, and it turns out that the Aztecs were wrong, it doesn't require human sacrifice to grow it.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2008-04-11 09:37pm

The Yosemite Bear wrote:I guess it's time to switch to Ahriman.

don't worry the grain is tasty, resistant to fungus, and it turns out that the Aztecs were wrong, it doesn't require human sacrifice to grow it.

Do you mean amaranth?

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2008-04-11 09:38pm

yes, my brain's a bit fucked up.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2008-04-11 09:48pm

The Yosemite Bear wrote:yes, my brain's a bit fucked up.

So's mine; it presents as megalomania, though.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2008-04-11 09:52pm

lol, yeah, I can't spell worth shit, and get names of things messed up frequently. Somehow my brain frequently confuses an easily harvestable grain with a middle eastern daemon lord....

theres other fuck ups in my memory system.

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2008-04-12 02:54am

Illuminatus Primus wrote:He was a trustbusting, Jew-hating, Nazi-loving pile of dogshit.

Isn't that a good thing? Or did you mean "union busting"?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2008-04-12 09:17am

On the positive side, maybe we'll see less rampant obesity in our fat-ass first-world western countries. I know people will say that crap food costs less than high-quality food, but you can't hit 300 lbs even on low-quality food unless you gorge yourself on it.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2008-04-12 10:32am

Darth Wong wrote:On the positive side, maybe we'll see less rampant obesity in our fat-ass first-world western countries. I know people will say that crap food costs less than high-quality food, but you can't hit 300 lbs even on low-quality food unless you gorge yourself on it.

Depends on what type of food too, and even then, the US isn't going to starve, not with their economic clout still. The places that do need a better, refined diet, are also, coincidentally, the places that have the most money.