Not to be gross, but uh. You don’t uh. Dysentery

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Not to be gross, but uh. You don’t uh. Dysentery doesn’t make you cough. 

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the good news is, i managed to get through all the photos and sort them into what i wanted to look at further, and what was more or less useless. 

the bad news is, there’s still 300 some odd photos to go through and most of them are repetitive and uninteresting. of those, a number will need me to digitally remove reflections, obstacles, or dirt spots from them. 

is it worth it? well, is anything worth anything? 

A teaser, though, of one of the few I’ve edited:

A rare photo of me appearing in the wild! Dude took it on New Year’s Eve. I was trying to get him to take a photo of the husk cherry, which is what’s in my hand. Never saw one in a restaurant in the US but they had them as garnishes on several things in Iceland, in several different places. 

[image description: me, a 40yo white woman with blond hair pulled back, in glasses, smiling, with my chin in one hand and a blurry little peachy-colored fruit in a papery husk, in weirdly pink lighting in a restaurant.]

missbuster replied to your post “photos”

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I really like this photo! Is a husk cherry like a gooseberry?

No, not in the slightest! I am not super familiar with gooseberries but a cursory Google suggests they don’t have husks. Husk cherries are related to tomatillos, and grow inside papery husks just like tomatillos do. 

They don’t really taste like cherries, but they do taste sweet.

thesacredreznor replied to your post “photos”

Oh husk cherries! The farm I briefly worked on grew those and I found them fascinating since I’d never seen one before. Weird lil things.

They’re so odd. They grow them at the farm, in the picking garden because they’re not worth the labor of harvesting, but kids especially love to pick them. The best way to harvest them is actually to wait for them to fall, and then crawl around and pick them up– and that’s just how it works in the picking garden, the kids come twice a week and then Farmkid keeps it tidy in between because she loves picking them up and eating them. 

They’re not a viable commercial crop in the US but I wonder if they’re in more demand in Iceland, whether for climate reasons– they grow there, or can be imported more easily, or whatever– or because culturally they’re more called-for? I don’t know. Most Americans don’t know what they are, and I wouldn’t if it weren’t for the farm’s picking garden.

They were garnishes, rather than a main part of any dish– in one drink, and as a decorative side touch on an appetizer at a different restaurant. I have trouble imagining any restaurant sparing the labor to shuck a lot of them to put in any kind of dish. 

They’re not very strongly flavored, they’re sort of bland I think, but they look super cool.