21 Apr 11 Taste of Paradise
Nipped into Asda today to get a few basics, like bread, butter and lunch meat. Picked up some hummous, and some pita bread too, which is a great snack in my opinion.
I quite often buy juice, although I tend to look for the ‘not from concentrate’ stuff. It might be more expensive but it tastes a whole lot better.
Anyway, I grabbed a litre bottle of Asda’s own brand ‘Pineapple, Orange and Coconut Juice’. When I got home, I didn’t want to wait until I’d drunk the OJ I have in the refrigerator already. Nope. My mum used to make me do that when I was a kid (quite rightly really, I know), and now I’m a big boy, I’ll do as a damn well please thank you.
Anyway, it’s really yummy. Very morish. How morish? I drunk it all.
A whole litre of it in one go. It’s only five hundred calories. Anyway, it’s gotta be a better five hundred than junk food.
A Taste of paradise indeed. Fiji comes to Hounslow. Well, perhaps not, but you get the idea. I’ll have to get me some more real soon. Perhaps I should go to Fiji too.
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15 Jan 08 Spanish Moss
It’s not Spanish and it’s not moss; it is uniquely American. It’s related to the pineapple. It can be found anywhere from North Carolina to South America.
It’s not a parasite, or poisonous like some folks imagine. It’s actually an epiphyte, which is a type of plant that has no roots but leaves off the moisture in the air. Small scales trap rain for easier absorbtion and keep the internal moisture in
Nourish comes from the mineral rich cells from the host tree, and for this reason Spanish Moss is often found in abundance on dead or decaying trees where the mineral rich cells are shedding faster.
It doesn’t bear fruit like a pineapple does, but sometimes produces small yellow flowers. It can grow up to twenty five feet long. It is sometimes used as packing material and upholstery stuffing.
Tags: absorbtion, abundance, bear fruit, cells, epiphyte, five feet, host tree, leaves, north carolina, packing material, parasite, pineapple, rain, roots, scales, south america, spanish moss, trees, upholstery, yellow flowers
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