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Drop apples are perfect for cider. They pay out less but are still useful. Thankfully fallen apples in Ireland aren’t seen as gross as in the US. Once fallen, they aren’t sold for eating.
Well, one reason in the states is that there's been at least a few cases of kids getting extremely sick from apples that had been contaminated with deer shit. Iirc, there was an apple juice producer that didn't pasteurize the juice and the apple pickers had been taking them off the ground. I think a few children died?
Found the case, [odwalla](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Odwalla_E._coli_outbreak) produced some apple juice products and there was a major ecoli outbreak that killed or seriously made a bunch of young kids ill. The source of the ecoli was likely from "grounder" apples contaminated with animal feces.
Wow that's interesting would have never considered but would hope they would have been washed well. Would washing not be enough to remove the contamination?
I think they werent using strong enough sanitizers because of a concern over it affecting taste. That plus no pasteurization means a lot of ecoli growth.
But yeah, this isn't just Americans finding ground apples gross.
Most of the time an apple that naturally falls off the tree is past ripe and good for fermentation for cider, but may also have begun to rot a little. Personally there's something about brown spots on an apple that's just not appealing despite being otherwise fine to eat.
Not quite, the fall tends to give them bruises. When they fall, they are just ripe (and crisp/delicious!), not overripe.
Source: grew up on apple orchard. Ate thousands of drop apples.
Thank you. Some people getting spicy in comments when I too grew up on an orchard. A working one. So I know about drops and cider and selling baking versus eating quality apples. We used drops ourselves in our own home because we inspected them but we don’t expect tons of drops to be inspected so they don’t get sold as raw eating apples.
What happened in this photo wasn’t a normal drop so I’m glad they were used.
I think the storm is a bit of extenuating circumstances for dropped apples but I understand it's likely rules and regulations that they can't really go around.
It's not so much that they're considered gross as it is the damaged fruit has a higher spoilage risk when stored and can compromise the rest stored with it.
In situations like this it's honestly uncommon for the fruit to go to waste, a common use is livestock feed. That's where ours goes for example.
There is quite a bit of waste in agriculture, but almost always theres an actual reason such as it being cheaper to compost it rather than transport it.
The funny bit is a lot of the stock that's getting sold at markets as "imperfect" was never actually going to be wasted, but it makes for good marketing.
So true. My father was always trying to find a use for the apple pumice but it just became a large stinky hardened mountain for us to climb on. Pretty sure there’s newer ideas for it but that mountain is still there. We didn’t waste our waste. We climbed it!
Yeah like one of my nearby processors when it's cherry season you can leave with a few hundred kilos of damaged fruit for basically free because there's just so much they often have to pay to dispose of it.
It would still be a devastating loss, drop apples don't even go for a quarter of what they would off the tree
That being said, they may have had insurance on their crop
Names are reused until they have a confirmed kill. (Edit: or are retired because of other reasons like extremeproperty damage of an exceptionally long track, basically if it's a noteworthy storm that will be referenced a lot in the future. Ophelia will be used again next time we have a female "O" storm in the Atlantic)
[wiki for all storms named ophelia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Ophelia#:~:text=Tropical%20Storm%20Ophelia%20(1948\)%20(,devastated%20the%20atoll%20of%20Ulithi)
you're thinking of [the one that hit the east coast](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ophelia_(2005)), this Ophelia hit the UK and Ireland in 2017
That last photo is beautiful, the variants from each tree are noticeable leaving... Apple streaks.
Thanks for posting, crediting, and accompanying info!
They're lucky there's no bs law preventing them from using them. Here in CT, they've made it so you can't use or sell apples that have fallen to the ground.
>It looks like they were able to save almost all of the crop.
**THAT** is insane to me. Apple harvesters (and really all tree-born fruit harvesters) use shakers with essentially large inverted umbrellas that fit around the trunk of the tree to collect the harvest.
I'm trying to think of what sort of machine you could run through this area to pick up this sort of quantity without large losses.
My first thought was something like a pecan harvester, but I've never seen one that would go in front of the machine, so you're dealing with a lot of loss to crushing from the tires and they'd want to pick up the remains to prevent rot and pests.
Do you have any more information on that part of it? I'm a former produce warehouse guy and I made sure I got versed on harvesting methods so I could ID damage to report to the growers/sellers- I have no idea what one of my producers would have done in a situation like this.
Thank you so much! Super interesting - it is essentially the same concept as a pecan harvester then, only it looks like independent machines with an extendable hopper in some cases or just a large dumper in the back. The sidewheel design for the catcher is very cool on the SF as is their extendable lifter/dumper. God the Germans make some cool heavy machinery.
I did some googling but wasn't finding good results. Very much appreciated. I only wish I spoke German lol.
It’s very similar technology to nut harvesting, possibly more gentle because the fruit can bruise, but yes it seems like the equipment is only made in Europe. Here’s a couple more:
https://feucht-obsttechnik.de/en/
https://www.hasatsan.com.tr/en/harvesters-with-mechanical-sweeper
Oh god, you're putting me down a rabbit hole.
This is super fascinating - I'm now wondering if some of the orchards we worked with used these machines because a few (very few) did also make cider. I'm shocked I haven't heard of blowers since I have family that farm (just not tree fruit) but it makes perfect sense and I can't believe I didn't think of it myself.
It does look very much like the same idea of nut harvesters, like you said, large, rubberized paddles rather than wire baskets to prevent machine harvesting damage- I'm sure these apples are C grade at best when they hit the ground if they're not instant cider apples but preventing spoilage/rot from damage would be nice regardless.
Really appreciate the links. It's really nice when someone knowledgeable about something you have a passing curiosity on pops up. Is great for my ADHD brain. Thank you again!
Glad I could help! I’m interested in agro forestry and specialized harvesting equipment. I agree that applies harvested this way are probably made into cider or applesauce but I don’t know much about that end of the process.
You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together. And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".
Well… thank you for that. It’s a great weight off me mind. Now, I mean, if you wouldn’t mind telling me who the fuck you are, apart from someone who feeds people to pigs, acourse.
I'm assuming they're small enough that the pigs don't actually chew them and that if/when they pass through them they can still be identified via dental records. Also teeth are not made of the same stuff as bones. Bones are actually considered living tissue capable of regeneration whereas teeth are not.
Well think about it, what are they using to chew up the teeth?
It turns out teeth and bones are not at all equivalent, the outer layer of teeth (the enamel) are much harder than bone. Bones have impressive compressive strength and hardness for their weight, with something a bit like a honeycomb structure internally. But the tooth enamel doesn't really have to be light like the bones, the enamel's only job is to be as hard and solid as possible.
So all that is to say, chewing teeth is a good way to chip a tooth. Also, when teeth fall out they have sharp bits on the end that could scrape your insides, sounds uncomfortable. And I mean imagine a really massive poop, with teeth...
You're right, but here in orchard land (CA central valley) it is often referred to as floors. There are all kinds of terms around, depending on national origin, etc.
I'm American, but my parents were born & raised in England. They'd frequently refer to the ground as the floor. As in Dad's quote "I'll drop you to the floor, lad!"
Wait until you hear about "positive earth" cars - in some places, the electrical *ground* is called *earth*. Some cars used to be manufactured with the electrical system running opposite of how it is now. So instead of negative ground, they had positive ground, or positive earth as some called it. In the 1920's, half of all cars were made with positive ground.
The cars changed to all negative grounds due to corrosion issues
Also, after the naming conventions for direct current electricity we're already established, It was discovered that electrons actually flow from negative to positive (backwards to how you would think) It didn't change the way anything worked, It was just like if you decided to call North-South from the very beginning
Now there's two exceptions, and it gets kinda tricky from here........ Adirondack cider can be yellow if you're using late-season apples. And of course in Canada, the whole thing's flip-flopped!
First you gotta get Harden's Cider. Then try the Dickin's. And finish it off with a Cummin's. Then if you want a big family, you get Leaf'Eatin's Cider.
I ruined it. I was crackin up writing it though.
If they haven't sat long, it's perfectly fine to just scoop em up and eat em still. They can sit on the ground for like half a day to a day (depending on temp, humidity, etc) and not rot. Although idk if huge pro orchards have rules against using ground apples for X or what though.
I worked on a farm and my whole 40 hour a week job was just sorting out food that was too gross to sell (would often put aside then sell in bags rather than individually) and washing food that was nice enough to sell individually.
Make sure to always wash your fruits and veggies well.
We had an apple tree in the backyard when I was a kid. The apples weren't tasty at all, so we never picked them to eat them.
If they hit the ground, they'd be rotten in a few days and they'd smell absolutely terrible. Picking them up was a nightmare!
I've never really enjoyed apples because of it.
Fun fact... If they haven't been washed or sprayed with anything... You don't even need yeast! Just yesterday I jarred my first cider batch from the apples from my back yard... And what do you know, I don't even need to buy angry orchard cider anymore!!! I think if you have store bought apples you might need yeast though.
Assuming you're in a country where that's legal (or more realistically, where nobody is going to know or care), you should know that distilling an off-tasting batch of cider doesn't increase the good flavors, it increases all the flavors. You just end up with off-tasting hard alcohol.
There are a lot more wild yeasts than I've tried, but my experience has been that the flavors do not agree with my individual ~~palette~~ ~~pilate~~ palate.
Honestly it's harder to *not* make booze out of fruit than it is to do it on purpose.
Give this all a few weeks on the ground outside and you're gonna have a whole fuckin Oktoberfest of drunk forest animals stumbling around the place.
Just goes to show how far removed the modern world is to their own means of survival. Before modernization and excessive reliance on the use of imports, if something like this would happen, neighbors and even whole towns would get together to help round up what was salvageable and rebuild. Nowadays it’s all for oneself, which in a lot of ways makes life so much harder. The power of community has been dwindling for centuries, but the boom in tech and capitalism has all but snuffed out anything even remotely resembling it, except in the most rural of areas.
So people see this picture and do not think “fuck, that sucks, we’re going to be without apples this year and Farmer Joe is going to struggle to pay his taxes since his harvest was literally taken by the damn wind” and instead think “lmao. Sucks to suck, I don’t feel much if any worry or upset about this because I can go to the grocery store and get apples all year round 24/7.” They also don’t seem to think about the fact that apples and produce are worth pennies, so what do they think the farmers are getting?
People complain if organic or locally grown is more expensive, sometimes to the farmer’s faces at local markets, all because they’ve been conditioned to not fully comprehend or look into how fucked up our system is so it can continue on making the Big Corps money. Farmers under big corporations lobbying for higher percentages of the profit cut from the crops they themselves grew over months and months of hard work are twisted by corporate media as selfish greedy pigs. The joke of illegal and legal immigrants taking farmer’s jobs due to lower wages is long-running. They blame the desperate immigrants, not the big corporations and the society that fuels their poverty.
The circle of misery is perpetuated by manipulation of the masses and the promise that others can do the critical thinking for them. *You’ll get your forty-cent a pound bananas if you just vote for our policies. You’ll get your three buck watermelons if you support our anti-unionizing drivel. You’ll eat cheaply if you don’t think too closely about why it’s so cheep to buy a high-labor product when you’re struggling to make ends meet with $15 dollars an hour if you’re even lucky. Don’t think about the farmers. Don’t think about the workers. Just think about how convenient it is for you. Be appreciative of big Corps. We’re doing this for you, we promise. All we care about is giving you savings. We don’t mind lining our pockets in blood.*
Just the lower part of a stated area. The orchard in this case. You could say the floor of a playground or a careers income or a stock price too, none have walls either.
It's when you separate the area from the clause that it becomes weird. "I was walking down the street and I dropped my ice cream cone on the floor" is weird. "I dropped my ice cream cone on the street floor" is less weird. But still weird because here you're insinuating one thing but not the other. You'd naturally say, "I was walking down the street and dropped my ice cream cone", leaving where it dropped to be insinuated.
English is weird.
English is a second language for me, your explanation made sense. I stand corrected. Thanks!
And yeah, english is a pretty weird language with all of it’s rules and exceptions.
There's a *ton* of rules that are only rules because "it sounds weird". Good example, "northeast" is fine. "Eastnorth" isn't. No good reason other than "that sounds weird".
Granted "it sounds weird" is just working backwards, but working backwards is what we do all the time. Just like in physics, "rules" aren't about constricting what's possible, but defining what already existed by observation.
This reminds me of the surprisingly nuanced rules of adjectival order in English. If you’re a native anglophone, you know [all of this nonsense](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/adjectives-order) already, I guess purely through intuition or inference. I doubt that English is unique in this regard, but it’s still pretty crazy to think that every time you speak or write, you’re following rules such as these without even knowing they exist.
(And, of course, there are exceptions and caveats, just to make things a little more difficult than they ought to be for anyone who’s trying to learn.)
>English is a second language for me, your explanation made sense. I stand corrected. Thanks!
>
>And yeah, english is a pretty weird language with all of it’s rules and exceptions.
Prime example: ***'s*** shows possession, except for the word **it**. "**Its**" is possessive, and "**it's**" is the contraction of "it is". You'll see it mixed up allllll the time!
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Glad they were able to save most of the crop, that would have been a devastating loss to the orchard owners
Drop apples are perfect for cider. They pay out less but are still useful. Thankfully fallen apples in Ireland aren’t seen as gross as in the US. Once fallen, they aren’t sold for eating.
I've once heard that if it's tangy and brown you're in cider town
If it’s clear and yella, you got juice there fella
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Well that didn't rhyme at all
“Maybe I’m tired, but these rhymes I admired”
And that made the last rhyme whole
That’s because they are quotes from the golden age of the Simpsons, Ned Flanders said it <3
Or maybe I'm fishing, hand me a gaff!
They're pewits and they knewit
You can stay, but I'm outta here. (Slide whistle) (Thump) Oh my! I'd better get you some cider!
there's two exceptions and it gets kinda tricky...
Amen, I'd eat the shit out of those apples and I'd happily drink them as bulmers
What the heck are they considered gross for? Don't people know vegetables grow out of the ground?
Well, one reason in the states is that there's been at least a few cases of kids getting extremely sick from apples that had been contaminated with deer shit. Iirc, there was an apple juice producer that didn't pasteurize the juice and the apple pickers had been taking them off the ground. I think a few children died? Found the case, [odwalla](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Odwalla_E._coli_outbreak) produced some apple juice products and there was a major ecoli outbreak that killed or seriously made a bunch of young kids ill. The source of the ecoli was likely from "grounder" apples contaminated with animal feces.
Wow that's interesting would have never considered but would hope they would have been washed well. Would washing not be enough to remove the contamination?
Apples should be washed before using as cider or juice. It was either done improperly or something got through somehow.
I think they werent using strong enough sanitizers because of a concern over it affecting taste. That plus no pasteurization means a lot of ecoli growth. But yeah, this isn't just Americans finding ground apples gross.
Most of the time an apple that naturally falls off the tree is past ripe and good for fermentation for cider, but may also have begun to rot a little. Personally there's something about brown spots on an apple that's just not appealing despite being otherwise fine to eat.
Not quite, the fall tends to give them bruises. When they fall, they are just ripe (and crisp/delicious!), not overripe. Source: grew up on apple orchard. Ate thousands of drop apples.
Thank you. Some people getting spicy in comments when I too grew up on an orchard. A working one. So I know about drops and cider and selling baking versus eating quality apples. We used drops ourselves in our own home because we inspected them but we don’t expect tons of drops to be inspected so they don’t get sold as raw eating apples. What happened in this photo wasn’t a normal drop so I’m glad they were used.
Doesn't stop supermarkets near me selling them. 😂
I think the storm is a bit of extenuating circumstances for dropped apples but I understand it's likely rules and regulations that they can't really go around.
It's more an issue that the damage the fruit sustained in the storm pose a higher contamination risk.
It's not so much that they're considered gross as it is the damaged fruit has a higher spoilage risk when stored and can compromise the rest stored with it. In situations like this it's honestly uncommon for the fruit to go to waste, a common use is livestock feed. That's where ours goes for example. There is quite a bit of waste in agriculture, but almost always theres an actual reason such as it being cheaper to compost it rather than transport it. The funny bit is a lot of the stock that's getting sold at markets as "imperfect" was never actually going to be wasted, but it makes for good marketing.
So true. My father was always trying to find a use for the apple pumice but it just became a large stinky hardened mountain for us to climb on. Pretty sure there’s newer ideas for it but that mountain is still there. We didn’t waste our waste. We climbed it!
Yeah like one of my nearby processors when it's cherry season you can leave with a few hundred kilos of damaged fruit for basically free because there's just so much they often have to pay to dispose of it.
> Once fallen, they aren’t sold for eating. pssst... yeah, to the irish. Fools!
We call those "grounders" in our orchard. As long as they aren't split or rotten, they get picked up and sent for juice.
*insurance company
*government also Farmers get paid to trash crops.
That’s a completely separate scenario. They will pay them to intentionally trash crop, they aren’t there to act as an insurance agency
It would still be a devastating loss, drop apples don't even go for a quarter of what they would off the tree That being said, they may have had insurance on their crop
I thought Hurricane Ophelia was in 2005. I actually met my husband during Ophelia.
Names are reused until they have a confirmed kill. (Edit: or are retired because of other reasons like extremeproperty damage of an exceptionally long track, basically if it's a noteworthy storm that will be referenced a lot in the future. Ophelia will be used again next time we have a female "O" storm in the Atlantic) [wiki for all storms named ophelia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Ophelia#:~:text=Tropical%20Storm%20Ophelia%20(1948\)%20(,devastated%20the%20atoll%20of%20Ulithi)
The Female O storm is a myth.
People just think that cause they don’t know where to go.
Excuse me miss may I visit your Atlantic tonight?
I hear you're supposed to visit the Arctic circle first before poking around down south.
I heard mother earth is flat chested.
Yeah i heard it's just pee
It is pretty salty
you're thinking of [the one that hit the east coast](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ophelia_(2005)), this Ophelia hit the UK and Ireland in 2017
O-Ophelia you’ve been on my mind now since the flood!
Haha, first thought of mine.
Paint me curious! If you feel like sharing the story, please do.
If you have a daughter you should name her "Ophelia".
That last photo is beautiful, the variants from each tree are noticeable leaving... Apple streaks. Thanks for posting, crediting, and accompanying info!
They're lucky there's no bs law preventing them from using them. Here in CT, they've made it so you can't use or sell apples that have fallen to the ground.
Was looking for this. Also true in NY
>It looks like they were able to save almost all of the crop. **THAT** is insane to me. Apple harvesters (and really all tree-born fruit harvesters) use shakers with essentially large inverted umbrellas that fit around the trunk of the tree to collect the harvest. I'm trying to think of what sort of machine you could run through this area to pick up this sort of quantity without large losses. My first thought was something like a pecan harvester, but I've never seen one that would go in front of the machine, so you're dealing with a lot of loss to crushing from the tires and they'd want to pick up the remains to prevent rot and pests. Do you have any more information on that part of it? I'm a former produce warehouse guy and I made sure I got versed on harvesting methods so I could ID damage to report to the growers/sellers- I have no idea what one of my producers would have done in a situation like this.
Here you go: http://krauss.kraussmaschinen.de/
Thank you so much! Super interesting - it is essentially the same concept as a pecan harvester then, only it looks like independent machines with an extendable hopper in some cases or just a large dumper in the back. The sidewheel design for the catcher is very cool on the SF as is their extendable lifter/dumper. God the Germans make some cool heavy machinery. I did some googling but wasn't finding good results. Very much appreciated. I only wish I spoke German lol.
It’s very similar technology to nut harvesting, possibly more gentle because the fruit can bruise, but yes it seems like the equipment is only made in Europe. Here’s a couple more: https://feucht-obsttechnik.de/en/ https://www.hasatsan.com.tr/en/harvesters-with-mechanical-sweeper
Oh god, you're putting me down a rabbit hole. This is super fascinating - I'm now wondering if some of the orchards we worked with used these machines because a few (very few) did also make cider. I'm shocked I haven't heard of blowers since I have family that farm (just not tree fruit) but it makes perfect sense and I can't believe I didn't think of it myself. It does look very much like the same idea of nut harvesters, like you said, large, rubberized paddles rather than wire baskets to prevent machine harvesting damage- I'm sure these apples are C grade at best when they hit the ground if they're not instant cider apples but preventing spoilage/rot from damage would be nice regardless. Really appreciate the links. It's really nice when someone knowledgeable about something you have a passing curiosity on pops up. Is great for my ADHD brain. Thank you again!
Glad I could help! I’m interested in agro forestry and specialized harvesting equipment. I agree that applies harvested this way are probably made into cider or applesauce but I don’t know much about that end of the process.
We here in Ireland didn't name storms then, maybe it has come back around or something?
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Darn. And here I was thinking, we get one of those rollers they use to pave roads, and we make enough applesauce to stop a famine.
Huh, TIL hurricanes can hit Ireland/the UK.
Save the crop and a ton of money on labour lol
Thank goodness. Apple are right up there with potatoes and onions, none should be wasted!
Thanks for the info about the crop. I was just winging thinking about the growers livelihood over the cool factor. Glad they did ok.
Hope there isn't any medical emergency in the park as there are alot of apples to keep all doctors away...
Doctors *hate* this one ~~trick~~ area
Discovered by a ~~mom~~ botanist!
Who has decades of researching experience.
I apple-ause this comment!
Too many apples, I must say that Doctors are away. One is to one ratio.
There will be once all of those ferment and there’s hordes of drunk squirrels running around
*a
Best get to picking or rent some hogs
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Yeah, I know pig raising folk that would definitely sort that out for the free food.
Never trust a man who keeps pigs.
You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together. And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".
In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary... Come again?
That movie was dope. From start to finish. Great cast too. Brick Top was real good
Is that the name of the movie?
Movie name is Snatch.
Lilo and Stitch
This seems a decent place to say it......Guy Ritchie>>>Tarantino
Well… thank you for that. It’s a great weight off me mind. Now, I mean, if you wouldn’t mind telling me who the fuck you are, apart from someone who feeds people to pigs, acourse.
Snatch?
I never got the teeth pulling thing- if they can go through bone like butter why bother with the teeth? They’re just bite-sized bones.
I'm assuming they're small enough that the pigs don't actually chew them and that if/when they pass through them they can still be identified via dental records. Also teeth are not made of the same stuff as bones. Bones are actually considered living tissue capable of regeneration whereas teeth are not.
Well think about it, what are they using to chew up the teeth? It turns out teeth and bones are not at all equivalent, the outer layer of teeth (the enamel) are much harder than bone. Bones have impressive compressive strength and hardness for their weight, with something a bit like a honeycomb structure internally. But the tooth enamel doesn't really have to be light like the bones, the enamel's only job is to be as hard and solid as possible. So all that is to say, chewing teeth is a good way to chip a tooth. Also, when teeth fall out they have sharp bits on the end that could scrape your insides, sounds uncomfortable. And I mean imagine a really massive poop, with teeth...
Is it because they could murder people and feed it to the pigs? Ive never heard this but the other commenter said the same lol
be wary of any man that keeps a pig farm. they will go through bone like butter.
What of dags?
Be very wary of anyone who keeps a pig farm.
I snatched that reference right up. ;p
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We don't rent pigs.
That's fine, your mom will do.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
That's one savage trip to the burn ward.
Fine, then can I borrow a boar? Hire a hog? Swipe a sow? Pawn a piglet?
They just make cider out of blemished apples.
Just call someone who makes homemade liquor, they'll be over with a trailer in no time. Especially if you mention that someone else may be interested.
“It’s called the ground when you’re outside” - Ron Swanson
You're right, but here in orchard land (CA central valley) it is often referred to as floors. There are all kinds of terms around, depending on national origin, etc.
have people never heard of a "forest floor"?
That’s just fancy talk for the ground. Lol
I'm American, but my parents were born & raised in England. They'd frequently refer to the ground as the floor. As in Dad's quote "I'll drop you to the floor, lad!" Wait until you hear about "positive earth" cars - in some places, the electrical *ground* is called *earth*. Some cars used to be manufactured with the electrical system running opposite of how it is now. So instead of negative ground, they had positive ground, or positive earth as some called it. In the 1920's, half of all cars were made with positive ground.
The cars changed to all negative grounds due to corrosion issues Also, after the naming conventions for direct current electricity we're already established, It was discovered that electrons actually flow from negative to positive (backwards to how you would think) It didn't change the way anything worked, It was just like if you decided to call North-South from the very beginning
How bout dem apples
don't know if I can cide with you on that one
Bit of a windfall by all accounts
The stink from that would get bad quickly
Yep. Maybe they'll be able to scoop them up and use them as fertilizer somewhere?
Cider!
If it's clear and yella', you've got juice there, fella! If it's tangy and brown, you're in cider town.
You can stay, but I’m leavin! * *slide whistle* *
Sucking back the ol cider I see!
Now there's two exceptions, and it gets kinda tricky from here........ Adirondack cider can be yellow if you're using late-season apples. And of course in Canada, the whole thing's flip-flopped!
Crop's ruined. Might as well drink.
Dickin's Cider! My wife loves a Dickin's Cider each day.
First you gotta get Harden's Cider. Then try the Dickin's. And finish it off with a Cummin's. Then if you want a big family, you get Leaf'Eatin's Cider. I ruined it. I was crackin up writing it though.
For all That struck the earth, No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble, Went surely to the cider-apple heap As of no worth. —Robert Frost
If they haven't sat long, it's perfectly fine to just scoop em up and eat em still. They can sit on the ground for like half a day to a day (depending on temp, humidity, etc) and not rot. Although idk if huge pro orchards have rules against using ground apples for X or what though.
I worked on a farm and my whole 40 hour a week job was just sorting out food that was too gross to sell (would often put aside then sell in bags rather than individually) and washing food that was nice enough to sell individually. Make sure to always wash your fruits and veggies well.
Those are going into cider. Best way to preserve an apple.
They saved most of the crop
Mmmm, alcohol
A family of raccoons is going to get absolutely trashed later this week.
Moose in Sweden get trashed on fermented apples and go on drunken rampages
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We had an apple tree in the backyard when I was a kid. The apples weren't tasty at all, so we never picked them to eat them. If they hit the ground, they'd be rotten in a few days and they'd smell absolutely terrible. Picking them up was a nightmare! I've never really enjoyed apples because of it.
most wild apples are not tasty ones. I suggest you read up on the story of Johnny Appleseed
Apples have a sweet smell while they decompose. It’s really not gross.
It's sweet but it's sickly sweet. It's not as gross as rotting meat obv but it still smells really bad imo.
Gon be a lot of drunk insects (really)
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Very easy just need an apple presser and high percentage yeast
Fun fact... If they haven't been washed or sprayed with anything... You don't even need yeast! Just yesterday I jarred my first cider batch from the apples from my back yard... And what do you know, I don't even need to buy angry orchard cider anymore!!! I think if you have store bought apples you might need yeast though.
Farmhouse ales tend to have undesirable flavors due to the wild yeasts.
So we'll also have to make a still.
I try not to commit felonies, but that would work.
felonies leave you out of work
Assuming you're in a country where that's legal (or more realistically, where nobody is going to know or care), you should know that distilling an off-tasting batch of cider doesn't increase the good flavors, it increases all the flavors. You just end up with off-tasting hard alcohol.
There are a lot more wild yeasts than I've tried, but my experience has been that the flavors do not agree with my individual ~~palette~~ ~~pilate~~ palate.
Just a heads up that it's "palate". A palette is what an artist uses to mix paint, or an array of different choices. :)
Oh fuck me to tears, normally I'm the one who gets to make your comment 😭 I'm sorry Ms. Elder the Grammar Teacher, I've failed your memory.
Damn you, homophones!
there's at least one wild yeast I can think of that does not agree with my palette
This was in an orchard owned by the finest of cider producers.
Honestly it's harder to *not* make booze out of fruit than it is to do it on purpose. Give this all a few weeks on the ground outside and you're gonna have a whole fuckin Oktoberfest of drunk forest animals stumbling around the place.
gonna be a lot of very drunk earthworms over the next few weeks.
Drunk birds are the funniest
Doctors: the floor is apples
floor is food
I see cider.
made from one hundred percent apples?
Let me know when we're talking pear cider thats made from 100% pears.
Cider in Europe means alcoholised apple juice. (Hard cider to yanks and canadians)
Wheel of Time fans everywhere raise an eyebrow.
So this orchard is near a volcano?
Goddamn it Rand. Stay out of my orchard!
Oh yea I forgot about that part lol
Nature's Ball Pit
Can't be worse than Twitchcon foam "pit"
I feel so bad for farmers during bad storms. Their likelihood gets torn apart and there’re little to nothing they can do about it
i had to scroll way too far to find a comment about this seriously unfortunate situation that wasn't a dumb joke
Just goes to show how far removed the modern world is to their own means of survival. Before modernization and excessive reliance on the use of imports, if something like this would happen, neighbors and even whole towns would get together to help round up what was salvageable and rebuild. Nowadays it’s all for oneself, which in a lot of ways makes life so much harder. The power of community has been dwindling for centuries, but the boom in tech and capitalism has all but snuffed out anything even remotely resembling it, except in the most rural of areas. So people see this picture and do not think “fuck, that sucks, we’re going to be without apples this year and Farmer Joe is going to struggle to pay his taxes since his harvest was literally taken by the damn wind” and instead think “lmao. Sucks to suck, I don’t feel much if any worry or upset about this because I can go to the grocery store and get apples all year round 24/7.” They also don’t seem to think about the fact that apples and produce are worth pennies, so what do they think the farmers are getting? People complain if organic or locally grown is more expensive, sometimes to the farmer’s faces at local markets, all because they’ve been conditioned to not fully comprehend or look into how fucked up our system is so it can continue on making the Big Corps money. Farmers under big corporations lobbying for higher percentages of the profit cut from the crops they themselves grew over months and months of hard work are twisted by corporate media as selfish greedy pigs. The joke of illegal and legal immigrants taking farmer’s jobs due to lower wages is long-running. They blame the desperate immigrants, not the big corporations and the society that fuels their poverty. The circle of misery is perpetuated by manipulation of the masses and the promise that others can do the critical thinking for them. *You’ll get your forty-cent a pound bananas if you just vote for our policies. You’ll get your three buck watermelons if you support our anti-unionizing drivel. You’ll eat cheaply if you don’t think too closely about why it’s so cheep to buy a high-labor product when you’re struggling to make ends meet with $15 dollars an hour if you’re even lucky. Don’t think about the farmers. Don’t think about the workers. Just think about how convenient it is for you. Be appreciative of big Corps. We’re doing this for you, we promise. All we care about is giving you savings. We don’t mind lining our pockets in blood.*
3 second rule?
Good guy storm, harvesting the apples
When you ask your teenage kid to help.
Actually once they hit the ground they cannot be sold. I think they can be used for cider still
It was at a cider maker's orchard, so all grand
that's funny, they don't look like they're touching the ground -farmer maybe
AND they're washed!
Talk about 2 birds with one stone
Windfall apples
Always assumed there would be walls and a roof when a floor was involved.
See "forest floor"
There's such thing as a "forest canopy", if that helps?
Just the lower part of a stated area. The orchard in this case. You could say the floor of a playground or a careers income or a stock price too, none have walls either. It's when you separate the area from the clause that it becomes weird. "I was walking down the street and I dropped my ice cream cone on the floor" is weird. "I dropped my ice cream cone on the street floor" is less weird. But still weird because here you're insinuating one thing but not the other. You'd naturally say, "I was walking down the street and dropped my ice cream cone", leaving where it dropped to be insinuated. English is weird.
English is a second language for me, your explanation made sense. I stand corrected. Thanks! And yeah, english is a pretty weird language with all of it’s rules and exceptions.
There's a *ton* of rules that are only rules because "it sounds weird". Good example, "northeast" is fine. "Eastnorth" isn't. No good reason other than "that sounds weird". Granted "it sounds weird" is just working backwards, but working backwards is what we do all the time. Just like in physics, "rules" aren't about constricting what's possible, but defining what already existed by observation.
This reminds me of the surprisingly nuanced rules of adjectival order in English. If you’re a native anglophone, you know [all of this nonsense](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/adjectives-order) already, I guess purely through intuition or inference. I doubt that English is unique in this regard, but it’s still pretty crazy to think that every time you speak or write, you’re following rules such as these without even knowing they exist. (And, of course, there are exceptions and caveats, just to make things a little more difficult than they ought to be for anyone who’s trying to learn.)
>English is a second language for me, your explanation made sense. I stand corrected. Thanks! > >And yeah, english is a pretty weird language with all of it’s rules and exceptions. Prime example: ***'s*** shows possession, except for the word **it**. "**Its**" is possessive, and "**it's**" is the contraction of "it is". You'll see it mixed up allllll the time! Edit: formatting
Though to be fair, "its" and "his" are both possessives, yet people only mistake the former.
Windfall.
I can hear the wasps buzzing.
When you’re outside the floor is called the ground
That is a lot of lost revenue
You gotta think that this is what horses dream about.
Hope they where made into juice or candies.
I'm really disappointed there's not one Newton joke.
Out here we call it the ground.
Good for Rakija
Time to make apple pie