#lang_en — Public Fediverse posts

I wonder if Penny knows she’s a stalker. #lang_en

@asokel yeah, no

the main edible product from those is their seeds, which sometimes have the effect of distorting your sense of taste for several weeks afterwards. I don’t know if there’s any female pines around you and what their current stage of the seed production cycle is (pines don’t flower but they do everything else that a flowering plant does, including the male cones releasing pollen that has to land in a female cone)

i believe the sap can be edible in some cases but it has a very particular flavor, liked by some people mainly in the case of wine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retsina (i will quote the incipit of the article since I know the WWW browsers on those computers are broken : )

Retsina (Greek: ρετσίνα) is a Greek white (or rosé or very rarely red) resinated wine, which has been made for at least 2,000 years. Its unique flavor is said to have originated from the practice of sealing wine vessels, particularly amphorae, with Aleppo pine resin in ancient times. Before the invention of impermeable glass bottles, oxygen caused many wines to spoil within a year. Pine resin helped keep air out, while infusing the wine with resin aroma. The Romans began to use barrels in the 3rd century AD, removing any oenological necessity for resin, but the flavor itself was so popular that the style is still widespread.

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@asokel What are the leaves like on those trees? If they are needle like, the tree probably won’t give sugary sap; in the case of a pine or a spruce, the sap, which is a sort of resin, is mainly used in some specialized applications. Birches and maples, however, which have much bigger leaves (maples are quite recognizable, if you’ve ever seen the flag of Canada since 1965; the leaf there is a stylized maple) and are aptly called broadleaved, will give a thin sap that can be drunk for hydration, fermented to a very weak and dangerous alcoholic drink, or boiled down for syrup (in birch’s case, not very sweet; in maple’s case, quite sweet indeed) #lang_en

@GroupNebula563 That is where resin is tapped, not syrup #lang_en

@BathysphereHat What food are you planning? #lang_en

Can an Italian ever love Germanic food? #lang_en

@asokel the soap is scented so you know you’ve used it - it’s for people with a bit of OCD going on who panic and go back to wash their hands again thinking they forgot when, for no clear reason, they sniff their hands #lang_en

@GroupNebula563 @kirakira @kwayk42 @falken good enough. #lang_en

@GroupNebula563 @falken @kwayk42 @kirakira are you british #lang_en

@GroupNebula563 I did see it! #lang_en

@GroupNebula563 I… well oops to them i guess for quaffing from the slop spring. #lang_en