GrosMichel [none/use name]

Gros Michel, often translated and known as “Big Mike”, is an export cultivar of banana and was, until the 1950s, the main variety grown. The physical properties of the Gros Michel make it an excellent export produce; its thick peel makes it resilient to bruising…

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  • Was watching Top 10 Video & Arcade episodes on YouTube and this Canadian book was advertised. It’s the fictional sequel to a fiction book about Camp X a real thing and this Goodreads review is saying how sympathetic they found the Nazi prisoners in it.

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/580801.Camp_30

    In this story, you can feel George’s conflict about the WWII German prisoners because he gets to know them, he realizes that they have families and miss them, the same way he misses his father, that they are brave, honourable, and good people, just caught up in an evil war that makes humans turn against each other. The Germans are portrayed as human beings, as normal people like you and I, and it makes you rethink about your feelings towards them.

    You get caught in between wanting the prisoners to escape (if they were Canadian soldiers in a German camp, you’d want them to) and not wanting them to make things worse for the Allies by going back to Germany. And you just can’t decide. That’s how real life is. And eventually, you learn that you have to make a choice, a choice that can have drastic consequences even if it is the one that seems right, and you just have to learn to live with that.

    Takes a Canadian to be like “but what about the captured Nazis though?”




  • Historian Søren Mørch has characterized the Danish cuisine as a “garbage kitchen” of insipid, sweet and unspiced “baby food” where the tastes of milk and sweetness form the key elements. He believes that it arose because the export policy of the Danish food sector was to use the Danish home market as a “gutter” for left-over products, after high-quality bacon and butter had been sold abroad. Skimmed milk, meat scraps only suitable for chopping up, and the replacement product margarine are all products which Søren Mørch describes as residue products.[119]







  • To add to what Frank said, it’s great if you can intrinsically motivate yourself by role-playing your character and stuff. You can just speed through the main quest, I guess, but the game’s best when you use the Unity version and you bumble around doing quests as your character. The character creation system’s pretty robust and varied.

    I had a Redguard spellsword and people were racist against me so I had to wander towns trying to find the non-racist NPCs to tell me where the places I was going to were located and my character was afraid of the dark or something so I slept in inns and camped a lot to make sure I was operating during the days and stuff.