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[Berzerker]

so kimchi is a member of the cabbage family

[Dinner]

seems to be life's design, filling niches comes natural until the good times are followed by a collapse from too much success or a chunk of rock hitting the Earth or a massive eruption or both

just saw a documentary on Kimchi, studies show eating fermented foods diversifies the gut's bacterial population causing all sorts of benefits. Never tried it but I will, I have been eating yogurt lately.

I love the various types of kimchis and eat it regularly (mostly the common cabbage kimchi but also reddish and other vegetable kimchis). My wife likes to cook basmati rice so kimchi goes well with it. I usually have it once or twice per week. Various Indian pickle mixes work well too like Punjabi mango pickle.

[BeBMan]

Goldfish has only fake-gold

[Berzerker]

seems to be life's design, filling niches comes natural until the good times are followed by a collapse from too much success or a chunk of rock hitting the Earth or a massive eruption or both

just saw a documentary on Kimchi, studies show eating fermented foods diversifies the gut's bacterial population causing all sorts of benefits. Never tried it but I will, I have been eating yogurt lately.

[Berzerker]

that is one ugly fish

[BlackCat]

It is a carp species from Asia. Some of the Asian carp species have devastating impact on native wildlife in North America.

https://youtu.be/rPeg1tbBt0A

The human species originate in africa and have had a devastating impact on nature and wildlife whereever it has entered.

[Dinner]

It is a carp species from Asia. Some of the Asian carp species have devastating impact on native wildlife in North America.

https://youtu.be/rPeg1tbBt0A

[BlackCat]

What do you even do with such a goldfish? Kill it and turn it into fertilizer? It is to boney to eat and I wouldn't want to release an invasive species.

Well, the goldfish might be an invasive species, but compared to humans and cockroaches they doesn't have a great impact.

[Dinner]

What do you even do with such a goldfish? Kill it and turn it into fertilizer? It is to boney to eat and I wouldn't want to release an invasive species.

[Broken_Erika]

Kidderminster man catches giant goldfish


Now here's something you don't see at the fair - a man using two hands to lift a goldfish nearly as big as he is.

Worcestershire angler Andy Hackett landed the orange beast while on a trip to France, in a region worthy of toasting such success - Champagne.

The giant, known as The Carrot, was introduced to Bluewater Lakes there 20 years ago, proving elusive since.

But then came along Mr Hackett and rod; using, you might say, a Carrot and stick approach.

The fish, he explained, was a hybrid of a leather carp and a koi carp and after a 25-minute battle, it was all over. The goldfish that had been a white whale to many was in Mr Hackett's net.

"You're gonna need a bigger bowl," was everyone's first thought, quickly followed by whether there were scales large enough to weigh scaly Carrot.

But a weigh-in was achieved, with this beauty's vital statistic being a whopping 30kg (67 pounds).

And yet there was no need for a mountain of potatoes for chips - The Carrot was released back from whence he came to leave another angler with a chance of a fishy tale.

The goldfish commonly kept as pets do not achieve more than a few inches in length, but they are part of the carp family which can reach impressive proportions, with colourful koi sometimes fetching small fortunes from hobbyists.

Mr Hackett's run-in with the special breed came during a visit to a fishery on one of his many French trips, and he said while The Carrot was often seen due to his striking hue, he was harder to land.

"With normal fish," Mr Hackett explained, "you struggle to see them if they're just under the surface, but The Carrot is obviously bright orange so you can't miss it.

"[But] it's a much sought-after fish, not many people have caught it, it's quite elusive."

Anglers, however, always have a chance.

"Just like a general big fish, they're heavy, they're slow, they plod around," Mr Hackett said.

Yet anyone fancying a crack themselves may face disappointment - the fishery has a waiting list of at least five years.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-63707394

[pchang]

Don't Cry For Me, Argentina!

[Berzerker]

Insider interviewed a cartel cook explaining 'rainbow fentanyl', he said they make it that way because some dealers in the US were cutting cocaine and heroin with fentanyl so they artificially colored it

[Proteus_MST]

Of course every fundamentalist christian who believes in the truth of the bible (so around half of the Americans AFAIK) (as well as, I guess, every "true believing" muslim) knows that this cannot bee true, as the earth is only 6k years old and humans already used fire to cook dinosaurs (which ultimately led to their extinction)

[BeBMan]

Human beings used fire to cook food hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previously thought, an Israeli-led group of researchers have suggested.

They found evidence in the 780,000-year-old remains of a huge carp-like fish discovered in northern Israel.

The scientists noted "the transition from eating raw food to eating cooked food had dramatic implications for human development and behaviour".

The previous earliest evidence of cooking dated from about 170,000 BC.

The remains of the two-metre (6.5ft) fish were found at the Gesher Benot Yaaqob archaeological site which spans the River Jordan about 14km (8.5 miles) north of the Sea of Galilee .

Researchers studied crystals from the enamel of the fish's teeth, which were found in large quantities at the site. The way the crystals had expanded was a sign that they had not been exposed to direct fire, but cooked at a lower temperature.


"Gaining the skill required to cook food marks a significant evolutionary advance, as it provided an additional means for making optimal use of available food resources," said Professor Naama Goren-Inbar from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who directed the excavation.

"It is even possible that cooking was not limited to fish, but also included various types of animals and plants."

(...)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63596141

I'm glad humans had it first

Imagine wild lions, sharks and whatnot had dev'ed cooking before humans.

Nah, but the 780,000-year figure surprised me, thought it to be a much later thing.

[Broken_Erika]

It's like a real life version of that onion article

https://www.theonion.com/new-subway-promotion-to-honor-subtember-11-1819575535