When life gives ya lemons.
Submitted 4 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
reev@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
We’re all so fucking sick of our lemons! Yeah they got so sour, please take them away. No it ain’t too much to be wishing for better, cause I’d sooner dry right up than make lemonade from this.
Source: Lemonade - Fox Stevenson
Hackworth@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Where’s the lime?
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
In the coconut.
Hackworth@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Good catch, edited the comment to include limes.
blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Lemon x mexican (key) lime
pyre@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
shout-out to pomelo, fucking og i never even heard of, responsible for two of my favorite fruits
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I always thought pomelo was some kind of over bred accident that was trying to be passed off as gourmet citrus with its two inch thick pith and its disappointing flavor. I suppose it gets a pass as it’s an actual naturally occurring fruit.
JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
As far as I remember, it tastes like a slightly sour lemon.
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 4 weeks ago
rape fruit? 😱
Mexigore@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Did you make this?
Hackworth@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Nah, it’s from wikipedia.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Evolution by artificial selection is still evolution.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Yeah, they should’ve have specified natural evolution.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
It’s not even selection, though.
We grafted those citruses into existence.
They’re delicious Frankenstein style abominations unto nature.
ChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
What even is “natural”? Aren’t humans part of nature? If a wolf kills all white rabbits and rabbits become black thats natural selection, but if a human chooses which animals/plants get to reproduce it isn’t? I say its still natural, as is climate change and any other thing human made. (Which doesn’t mean it is good and we should continue doing it)
flora_explora@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
It is different if it is a passive or active process though. The initial question is, in how far lemons benefit from this evolved trait. The benefits might be very different between passive or active evolution here. If it were passive, lemon plants might benefit by avoiding some disadvantageous animal species feeding on them. As it is active though, the benefit is that they are grown more by humans. The feedback loop between evolution and trait selection is very different if it is active or passive I’d say.
alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I was today years old when I realised that “When life gives you lemons” might be a metaphor for bitter/sour situations you experience but are outaide your own control…
jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
What did you think the expression meant?
Like if life gives you oranges, make orange juice, just because that’s what it’s made with?
vritrahan@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Yes
hex@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Yeah i always just took it for granted too
MTK@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Also, not all animals experience sour taste in the same way. For example rats actually love eating lemons! There are literally guides online on how to stop them!
Tomassci@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Same goes for chilli peppers, which aren’t hot for birds, since their receptors are incompatible
MTK@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Cool Thing about that is that the theory is that it was selected for exactly to ward off non birds so that only birds eat it and the seeds go further!
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
you don’t even need to resort to other animals, lots of humans are fucked and will happily suck on a lemon wedge with 0 indication that it’s remotely sour
like, i enjoy sour stuff, but if i touch my tongue to a raw lemon my entire face inverts
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This just vindicates my long time thought: people make their own problems.
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
When life gives you people
Zwiebel@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
So then why are citrons sour?
lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
I wonder if that isn’t a protection against mould reaching the seeds.
oce@jlai.lu 4 weeks ago
Completing the circle with le citron de Menton, that is mild and sweet enough to be eaten raw with the peel. bbc.com/…/20220328-the-return-of-frances-lost-men…
CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
“LEMONS?!”
🫢 humpf
😮💦🍋 phaaashmanio@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
For the 40k fans: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNEzD5n6SAs
winkly@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
When life gives you sour fruit, make better sour fruits!
anubis119@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
When life gives you lemons, take credit.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 weeks ago
It was the scientists all along!
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Life didn’t give me lemons, my goddamn ancestors did
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My understanding is lemons are a hybrid that arose without human intervention. Their persistence is because of humans intervention.
Etterra@discuss.online 4 weeks ago
This exemplifies everything that’s wrong with our species.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
According to Wikipedia lemons have been around for about 2000 to 3000 years old.
58008@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
WrongOnTheInternet@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
When we give life lemons, what is life meant to do?
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
In a more general way, other creatures don’t experience taste the same way we do.
Bird poop is really nutritious to seeds. It makes sense for those plants to be eaten by birds (with the seed passing through the digestive tract untouched), but avoid other creatures.
Enter capcasin. Mammals find it intolerable (except for one subset of a goofy bipedal species), but birds love that shit.
CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Image
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Looking at that pepper while this musical sting plays
piccolo@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I know someone with a dog that loves jalapenos. So its not just us.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
A friend of mine has a dog who likes to chew on large landscaping rocks. The vet said to put hot sauce on the ones in the yard. Dog was like “OMG, you SEASONED them for ME???” cromch cromch cromch
smeg@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Also birds fly, meaning they tend to disperse the seeds further