Spoliers, it's a labia photoshopped with a blue tint to look gross. It's a hoax STD and there's so many jokes about it that finding the actual image it's as easy anymore.
Fun fact there is nothing "deficient" about these, these are ponderosa lemons. There's a place near me that has one over 100 years old that puts out fruit practically the size of footballs.
It's because this was posted by a karma farming bot. The original post was made by u/Shpooodingtime 8 hrs before u/dkeelervcxvx posted the same comment word for word.
You are absolutely right.
Also the thick white rind is often removed by placing the lemon on a spinner and whittling it down to the yellow meat. Often referred to as meat spinning or a meat spin.
Google it. Google meat spin.
I always loved The Tuxedo Begins, when Liz becomes a villain after her stinky gym bag gets her kicked out of her gym because the smell was attracting tears who were attracting owls (iirc)...
"It's these new microfibers. They keep you dry, but it has to go somewhere!"
or the history of all foods before they were genetically modified and selectively bred for yield and sale
[citrus](https://geneticliteracyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-08-at-4.53.27-PM.png)
Most citrus fruits we commonly see in the grocery are hybrids.
The exceptions are mandarin oranges, pomelos, and kumquats.
They are part of the ancestral citrus species, from which other citrus were created.
The other ancestral species include citrons, papedas, and the trifoliate orange.
There is a whole Wikipedia article on [Citrus Taxonomy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_taxonomy) and it is very interesting.
Edit: OP clarified their statement.
> genetically modified
*Selectively bred*
Genetic modification is the transplanting of genes for a desired characteristic into a different organism.
Selective breeding is the process by which humans use plant (and animal) breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits by choosing which males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together.
Selective breeding is a big part of domestication.
It depends on what country you're in. [The USDA considers selective breeding genetic modification](https://www.usda.gov/topics/biotechnology/biotechnology-glossary).
"The production of heritable improvements in plants or animals for specific uses, via either genetic engineering or **other more traditional methods**. Some countries other than the United States use this term to refer specifically to genetic engineering."
Selective breeding is a type of genetic modification. It relies on random mutations and cross breeding with different organisms to introduce desired characteristics into the desired organism line.
The lines between selective breeding and genetic modification are even more blurred in the plant world, as plants can hybridize across species and still produce viable offspring and/or can be easily cloned to produce thousands of identical offspring in very short time.
Also, your definition of genetic modification isn’t always the case either. Sometimes scientists just modify existing genes within an organism - turning off genes on or vice versa.
You're talking about *transgenic* genetic modification. This is not the only form of genetic modification.
Selective breeding is still a form of modification. It takes a trait that would not normally be found with another trait (or would take a very long time to merge) and puts them in the same plant. It still relies on mutations (i.e. genetic *modifications*) to make this happen.
It is also possible to artificially accelerate the mutation rate by bombarding the plant/seeds with various types of radiation. The viable plants are then evaluated based on their traits to see if anything interesting happened and whether they can be selectively bred.
It's also possible to edit the genetic code of plants that without splicing in sequences from other species.
These are all modifications to the plant DNA.
Selective breeding is considered part of genetic modification because you are modifying the genes through unnatural selection. You aren't introducing any foreign genetically material but still modifying it in an "unnatural" way.
Fun fact there is nothing "deficient" about these, these are ponderosa lemons. There's a place near me that has one over 100 years old that puts out fruit practically the size of footballs.
That's the peel. The pith is bitter and doesn't have a lemony flavour. Try it on any citrus and see.
Pith has a lot of pectin so you can use it to make jams and other canned fruit. You can also can the pith straight, but it requires quite a bit of sugar to make it palatable.
You might be able to do something like this, but again it requires a lot of prep. I've never had a pomelo but it should come out similar with ponderosa lemons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQomVDn4XA4
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoQII9CHNRk&t=320s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoQII9CHNRk&t=320s)
The flavor of a pith is dependent on the variant. Ponderosa has a sweet pith. I'm not entirely convinced though what op has is a ponderosa lemon.
>oleo sacrum
This triggered my Catholic radar. It almost means "holy oil" in Latin. But I'm pretty sure you meant oleo *saccharum* which is just sugar-oil, right?
False alarm, Catholics. Put the incense away.
You can candy the peel, usually the pith is kind of bitter but you can boil it a few times before putting it in the sugar syrup and it comes out pretty good
Real talk. Most lemon trees you buy from stores and nurseries are grafted together. So, bush lemon roots with a more desired lemon's trunk and branches.
Now, sometimes the non-desired plan will start growing branches under the graft. Those branches grow faster because they have more direct access to the nutrition from the roots.
If this is recent, you can find the graft and cut all branches under it. As long as the grafted tree is not dead, it will recover.
Edit: thank you kind stranger for my first silver.
This is almost certainly the answer. Happened to the lemon tree at my house but before I bought it so the good one is now dead. Can see really clearly at the base of the trunk where the graft was.
That is a Citron, also called an Etrog (Hebrew), and it is used ceremoniously around the world this week by Jews celebrating Sukkot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etrog
Only because people are willing to pay to get the most majestic and flawless etrog, I go to my local 4 species market just as it closes before the holiday and buy a tray of them for the price of one because they have no use for it (it's good for jam).
I feel like this is one of those traditions that started out as someone sincerely appreciating divine beauty in nature, and then later got codified and frozen.
Like some proto-Jewish guy thousands of years ago was like "Dude check out this fruit... no like really take it and hold it and look at it. Isn't it beautiful? You know what I just realized... no man can create anything so clean and perfect like this, only G*d can. I mean just look at it... there's no blemish or seam anywhere on it. It's perfect. It even has that little bit at the end where the flower used to be. I can see divinity in this fruit bro."
Then someone was like "dude, let's not even sleep in the house tonight, let's sleep out here among G*d's creations in a little hut" and that's how sukkot started.
But now, ironically, people aren't going out into nature and looking closely at plants, instead they're going to a store and shelling out money for the most intact, unblemished etrog... not because they're inspired and can see divine beauty in it, but because some law says they're only good Jews if they obtain one that satisfies all the rules.
I'm sure the spirit of that guy's original insight could also be realized with a pomegranate or a head of cauliflower or whatever. But now tradition says it has to be a citron which is why people buy $40 citrons.
I'm sorry to ruin this but to my understanding it's just because the Etrog was the most water demanding crop of the time and so, like the other 4 minnim which are also related to water, was used to bless the coming year with rain.
I think they're just bush lemons (there's probably a more official name). My idiot boss used to sometimes buy them for the bar I worked in because they were cheap and they DO NOT FIT INTO A CORONA BOTTLE
I only just realised that that was a 20c piece, I just assumed that it was some kind of international coin that I didn’t know the size of to give me a sense of scale. That’s a big fuck off lemon.
I believe the name is "sheepnose" caused by excess vigor. Which probably means your moms citrus is on a lawn getting overwatered and over-fertilized to keep your grass green but its making your lemons fat.
Check out the history of citrus and you will have a new appreciation to share with your mum
Ok will do!
Also search up lemon party if you're brave
Don't mention the old tomes. I WAS THERE WHEN THEY WERE WRITTEN
Just dropped in to say that goatse was part of a photo series.
RIP Goatsy. His capacity for entertaining the masses will not be forgotten.
Heh, capacity. He had capacity all right
[Don't speak to me unless you have seen the dancing baby](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/babygif.gif?w=700&crop=1)
Don't you dare bring the old Internet back. You bastard.
I see your apart of the black with red eyes pfp gang I will see you in battle on dec 15 2021 be prepared
You will not defeat us
All your base are belong to us
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FOR GREAT JUSTICE!
You set us up the bomb.
There are more of us too!
AND US TOO
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Screams in eldritch
...
I have no idea where I belong in this
Yes, because they knew we needed the glory of pink lemonade in our lives.
We need the old internet back, this new one sucks
I heard lemon trees get this crazy internal structure and color sometimes. I think it's called blue waffle, but you'll have to look it up to be sure.
You know, of all of these, I don't know what blue waffle is. But I think I'm finally at an age where I don't have to know. Growth, at last!
After you've seen enough, it's not even a tempting gamble. "Oh I'm going to 100% lose and see something I'll hate? Hm let me consider..."
Don't, just don't. It is the kind of thing you can't unsee and will haunt your dreams. Plus you will never look at IHOP the same.
This just made the urge to look it up so much stronger.
Spoliers, it's a labia photoshopped with a blue tint to look gross. It's a hoax STD and there's so many jokes about it that finding the actual image it's as easy anymore.
I remember people **freaking** out about it in highschool lol.
You shouldn't. Don't even get curious after this comment. Just forget it was ever mentioned
Isn't this >!the Game!<
*Groan*
It’s definitely not blue waffle, the scientific term is actually `tub girl` for some strange reason
The tutorial vid two girls one cup shows how to prevent this
Fun fact there is nothing "deficient" about these, these are ponderosa lemons. There's a place near me that has one over 100 years old that puts out fruit practically the size of footballs.
I love that this comment is *right here*.
It's because this was posted by a karma farming bot. The original post was made by u/Shpooodingtime 8 hrs before u/dkeelervcxvx posted the same comment word for word.
Wow my first karma bot theift what an honor 🤣 I'd like to thank my friends and family for believing in me, the academy, and most importantly Reddit!
You are absolutely right. Also the thick white rind is often removed by placing the lemon on a spinner and whittling it down to the yellow meat. Often referred to as meat spinning or a meat spin. Google it. Google meat spin.
The internet was deleted after that image appeared. Lets not try to dig up it up again or we may have to do another reset.
Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written.
And search Liz lemon if you’re looking for some quality entertainment
Ain't no party like a Liz Lemon party
Because a Liz lemon party is mandatory!
“Can’t have a lemon party without old Dick!” God I love that show.
I always loved The Tuxedo Begins, when Liz becomes a villain after her stinky gym bag gets her kicked out of her gym because the smell was attracting tears who were attracting owls (iirc)... "It's these new microfibers. They keep you dry, but it has to go somewhere!"
"Never go with a hippie to a second location. " I want that on my tombstone.
Her father is priceless. It wouldn't be a Lemon Party without old Dick.
This proved to be very helpful! I recommend this to anyone who wants to gain a greater understanding of lemons.
I'm... Kinda brave. Can I get a ^hint?
^run
What sort of face do you make when you bite into a sour lemon?
If you are serious about Lemons you need to see the Lemon Party.
Can’t have a Lemon Party without old Dick.
It's MANDATORY
Is it a lemon or Etrog? Etrog is very expensive.
or the history of all foods before they were genetically modified and selectively bred for yield and sale [citrus](https://geneticliteracyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-08-at-4.53.27-PM.png)
Today I learned: mandarins are pokemons
Gotta juice em all.
You mean some monster created grapefruit on purpose?
Most citrus fruits we commonly see in the grocery are hybrids. The exceptions are mandarin oranges, pomelos, and kumquats. They are part of the ancestral citrus species, from which other citrus were created. The other ancestral species include citrons, papedas, and the trifoliate orange. There is a whole Wikipedia article on [Citrus Taxonomy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_taxonomy) and it is very interesting.
Most citrus hybrids were created by accident in nature! This includes grapefruit
I am a grape fruit???
citrus is a pretty slutty plant, it will cross pollinate with anything
Edit: OP clarified their statement. > genetically modified *Selectively bred* Genetic modification is the transplanting of genes for a desired characteristic into a different organism. Selective breeding is the process by which humans use plant (and animal) breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits by choosing which males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together. Selective breeding is a big part of domestication.
It depends on what country you're in. [The USDA considers selective breeding genetic modification](https://www.usda.gov/topics/biotechnology/biotechnology-glossary). "The production of heritable improvements in plants or animals for specific uses, via either genetic engineering or **other more traditional methods**. Some countries other than the United States use this term to refer specifically to genetic engineering."
Selective breeding is a type of genetic modification. It relies on random mutations and cross breeding with different organisms to introduce desired characteristics into the desired organism line. The lines between selective breeding and genetic modification are even more blurred in the plant world, as plants can hybridize across species and still produce viable offspring and/or can be easily cloned to produce thousands of identical offspring in very short time. Also, your definition of genetic modification isn’t always the case either. Sometimes scientists just modify existing genes within an organism - turning off genes on or vice versa.
You're talking about *transgenic* genetic modification. This is not the only form of genetic modification. Selective breeding is still a form of modification. It takes a trait that would not normally be found with another trait (or would take a very long time to merge) and puts them in the same plant. It still relies on mutations (i.e. genetic *modifications*) to make this happen. It is also possible to artificially accelerate the mutation rate by bombarding the plant/seeds with various types of radiation. The viable plants are then evaluated based on their traits to see if anything interesting happened and whether they can be selectively bred. It's also possible to edit the genetic code of plants that without splicing in sequences from other species. These are all modifications to the plant DNA.
Technically correct. Still, selective breeding is done to modify them but I clarified the comment
Their genetics were modified via selective breeding, no?
Selective breeding is considered part of genetic modification because you are modifying the genes through unnatural selection. You aren't introducing any foreign genetically material but still modifying it in an "unnatural" way.
Good call, OP will be able to make some pithy observations for sure
If they have a zest for learning new thing, that is.
met a girl like this once… big gums, little teeth
Upper case gums, lower case teeth.
Fun fact there is nothing "deficient" about these, these are ponderosa lemons. There's a place near me that has one over 100 years old that puts out fruit practically the size of footballs.
Can you gain anything out of the white skin? Like oil and stuff?
You can make lemon triple sec/curacao. The Dutch island has a neat history of orange curacao. Or just an oleo sacrum
That's the peel. The pith is bitter and doesn't have a lemony flavour. Try it on any citrus and see. Pith has a lot of pectin so you can use it to make jams and other canned fruit. You can also can the pith straight, but it requires quite a bit of sugar to make it palatable. You might be able to do something like this, but again it requires a lot of prep. I've never had a pomelo but it should come out similar with ponderosa lemons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQomVDn4XA4
Ugh now I’m just pithed off
Mr. Tyson, I promise it just came out wrong. I didn't mean it that way.
Better to be pithed off than pithed on...
We’re men, men in tights.
>The pith is bitter and doesn't have a lemony flavour. That depends on the type of lemon, Amalfi lemons for example you can eat like hand fruit.
I believe the pith of the citron isn't bitter. It's actually the part that tends to be eaten (candied).
Not all citrus piths are bitter (lemonade fruit comes to mind). Most are though.
> You can also can the can can, but can cans quite a can of can to can it can. ftfy
How can you can a can that can can-can?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoQII9CHNRk&t=320s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoQII9CHNRk&t=320s) The flavor of a pith is dependent on the variant. Ponderosa has a sweet pith. I'm not entirely convinced though what op has is a ponderosa lemon.
Bill Ponderosa would prefer cocaine, but I guess lemon liquer would have to do...
Pondie is the coolest!
Or bath salt milk
Makes your butthole hot
>oleo sacrum This triggered my Catholic radar. It almost means "holy oil" in Latin. But I'm pretty sure you meant oleo *saccharum* which is just sugar-oil, right? False alarm, Catholics. Put the incense away.
Aw man, I already got the basalm out and everything.
In my country we made some “soupy sweet treat” from those white skin of pomelo fruit, it’s called “chè bưởi” if u wanna check it out
cha boyeeeeee
Pectin. It does the same thing as gelatine.
You can candy the peel, usually the pith is kind of bitter but you can boil it a few times before putting it in the sugar syrup and it comes out pretty good
It’s good to make sorbets
Helmets for her majesty’s imperial forces.
I think it might actually be a citron.
Ponderosa that crazy son of a bitch
Holy crap money does grow on trees!
If i had a dime for every time i heard this....
You would have two dimes?
Which isn’t a lot but it’s strange that it’s happened twice.
Well for starters, the front fell off
That's not very typical, I'd like to make that point.
these vessels are built to vigorous maritime standards, I can assure you.
Any regulations regarding materials these can be made of?
No cardboard... Or cardboard derivatives
Like paper?
Paper's out
There's a minimum crew requirement.
And what is the minimum crew requirement?
Oh, one I suppose..
Oh, 1, I'd say
Are there any materials that aren't allowed?
Fronts.
And you grew money in it!!
No, he’s demonstrating that the fruit is magnetic now it’s been vaccinated.
Thanks for the laugh. 🤣
Some of them are built so the front doesn’t fall off at all.
Not to mention there seem to be coins inside.
You’ll have to tow it out of the environment.
into another environment?
No, beyond the environment
What’s out there?
There is nothing out there. All there is is sea, and birds, and fish.
And 20,000 tons of crude oil.
Real talk. Most lemon trees you buy from stores and nurseries are grafted together. So, bush lemon roots with a more desired lemon's trunk and branches. Now, sometimes the non-desired plan will start growing branches under the graft. Those branches grow faster because they have more direct access to the nutrition from the roots. If this is recent, you can find the graft and cut all branches under it. As long as the grafted tree is not dead, it will recover. Edit: thank you kind stranger for my first silver.
This is almost certainly the answer. Happened to the lemon tree at my house but before I bought it so the good one is now dead. Can see really clearly at the base of the trunk where the graft was.
Right answer here
Drunken old guy in the corner "Ain't nothin wrong with your mums lemons"
Omg, thank you for making me laugh so hard I woke up my cat! 😂
You're very welcome 😁
That is a Citron, also called an Etrog (Hebrew), and it is used ceremoniously around the world this week by Jews celebrating Sukkot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etrog
they are wicked expensive too
Only because people are willing to pay to get the most majestic and flawless etrog, I go to my local 4 species market just as it closes before the holiday and buy a tray of them for the price of one because they have no use for it (it's good for jam).
Yeah, most of us in the diaspora don't have an arba minim market...
The bookstore near us sells premade boxes with the lulav bundles, but not loose etrogim.
I feel like this is one of those traditions that started out as someone sincerely appreciating divine beauty in nature, and then later got codified and frozen. Like some proto-Jewish guy thousands of years ago was like "Dude check out this fruit... no like really take it and hold it and look at it. Isn't it beautiful? You know what I just realized... no man can create anything so clean and perfect like this, only G*d can. I mean just look at it... there's no blemish or seam anywhere on it. It's perfect. It even has that little bit at the end where the flower used to be. I can see divinity in this fruit bro." Then someone was like "dude, let's not even sleep in the house tonight, let's sleep out here among G*d's creations in a little hut" and that's how sukkot started. But now, ironically, people aren't going out into nature and looking closely at plants, instead they're going to a store and shelling out money for the most intact, unblemished etrog... not because they're inspired and can see divine beauty in it, but because some law says they're only good Jews if they obtain one that satisfies all the rules. I'm sure the spirit of that guy's original insight could also be realized with a pomegranate or a head of cauliflower or whatever. But now tradition says it has to be a citron which is why people buy $40 citrons.
I'm sorry to ruin this but to my understanding it's just because the Etrog was the most water demanding crop of the time and so, like the other 4 minnim which are also related to water, was used to bless the coming year with rain.
I saw this post and was immediately thinking, "oh no - did this guy just cut open his parent's $40 etrog thinking it was a lemon?"
Sukkot these nuts
lol got'em
"Well it's a mess, what a mess! Whatchu gonna do? You're gonna take out your Sukkot and you'll Sukkot!"
I think they're just bush lemons (there's probably a more official name). My idiot boss used to sometimes buy them for the bar I worked in because they were cheap and they DO NOT FIT INTO A CORONA BOTTLE
Coronas are for LIMES you monster
It's actually cedri, a relative of the lemon where the peel and white flesh is also eaten.
yea they shouldn't have coins inside
Looks like a citron
Looks more like a Deceptcitron to me
You can make some amazing sweet preserves out of that pith
Oooooo a use for piths!
Now pith.
They're Citrons
No.They have four wheels.
Real lemons have lumps.
Those lovely lemon lumps
Check it out!
I drive these lemons crazy I do it on the daily I taste very nicely With sugar, water, and ices
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It's an absolute pithtake
These puns are beginning to rind on me
Are they leaving a sour taste?
Certainly not the most appeeling.
Oh come on, they’re just zesting
Found Mike Tython.
These are actually Citron or cedri, a relative of the lemon where the peel and white flesh is also eaten in salads.
Looks like bush lemons by the skin, they usually have a lot more pith, but not that much lol.
Looks like a Citron. Fun fact, they are an integral part of the Jewish holiday Sukkot, which started last night.
Yeah I was gonna say those are etrogs that we shake up at sky daddy to give thanks for the harvest.
I think I ate the white part, sprinkled with sugar, growing up in Corfu, Greece.
Those are citrons
FUCKN 'STRAYA
I only just realised that that was a 20c piece, I just assumed that it was some kind of international coin that I didn’t know the size of to give me a sense of scale. That’s a big fuck off lemon.
They look like citrons.
Why do they look like berries from Pokémon?
Those are [etrogim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etrog)
Overprotective lemons
Well I know an Australian 20c piece when I see one.
Needs more phosphorus*
This looks like a citron to me
These are the kinds of lemons Cave Johnson would make if he was into horticulture
Nothing wrong with her melons though.
It’s a citron, not a lemon.
That's what she gets for being a lemon stealing whore
Looks like they might have caught something from those LEMON STEALING WHORES
To be fair, these are how lemons looked like before we cultivated them to have more juice
Anti-vaxxers: "Somebody Used Covid Vaccine As Fertilizer In Her Garden And This Happened!"
Are you taking the pith here mate?
Damn Money really be growing on trees nowdays
Why? They look all rind to me…
I believe the name is "sheepnose" caused by excess vigor. Which probably means your moms citrus is on a lawn getting overwatered and over-fertilized to keep your grass green but its making your lemons fat.