>Spinach (basically, as I think there may be different varieties)....didn't >know yer could smoke it! (Maybe Pop-Eye actually put it in his pipe!) > >regards Doug
It's not actually spinach Doug, not even a relative. It's leaf beet, or Swiss chard - beetroot optimised for the leaf at the expense of the root, and a very good crop. We don't grow much spinach but we grow a lot of Swiss chard. The disadvantage of spinach is that it has a high oxalic acid content, and IIRC a month or two back we heard that cooking doesn't necessarily detoxify it. Swiss chard doesn't have any such problem, it's a great leaf vegetable, grows well, winter-hardy. (No THC either.) Pop-Eye must have been in the employ of a major spinach producer, IMHO - he ate it out of cans didn't he? I guess you'd need a good gimmick to sell lots of canned spinach. Maybe a dash of olive oyl helped blunten the effect of all that oxalic acid on his liver and kidneys. Best Keith >On Monday 25 September 2006 5:21, D. Mindock wrote: > > Wow, now that is funny. Um, what is Silver Beet? asks this here gringo & > > former toker. > > Thanks, D. Mindock > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Bob Molloy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <biofuel@sustainablelists.org> > > Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 7:00 PM > > Subject: Re: [Biofuel] amazing himalayan salt > > > > > Billy Bob said... > > > Pot'll get you through times of no money better'n money'll get you > > > through times of no pot. > > > > > > I been smoking pot ever' day for thirty years. Never got addicted yet. > > > > > > Old Aunty of mine was addicted to Silver Beet. Ate it every two hours. > > > She was always mad but she died of dementia and left everything to her > > > budgie. How f...d up is that? > > > > > > Hang on a minute. Dropped the pipe. > > > > > > Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah. I used to be real uptight, ambitious, wear > > > a suit. I think I was a rep or something. Now I got a cabin in the bush > > > made out of old 44 gallon drums and stuff. Me and my old lady are gonna > > > get some > > > ferrets and rats. See, you can feed the ferrets on rats till they're big > > > then skin 'em and feed the carcases to the rats. Totally enclosed system. > > > Saw it in one of those Furry Freak Bros books. My old lady is going to > > > make > > > fur coats and we'll sell them in the markets if we can get the Kombi > > > running. > > > > > > Satchmo was ripped to the tits all the time. Never got violent and man > > > could > > > that cat play the saxophone. Or was it the clarinet? > > > Only guy I knew got violent on pot was this mate of mine who took to one > > > of > > > those Ronald MacDonald statues. Rammed a Chicken Salad right between > > > those red lips. Reckoned the dressing was full of sugar. He's a > > > Mayonnaise terrorist. How come Ronald wears lipstick? I wouldn't want him > > > around my kids. > > > Only time pot did me any harm was one Halloween when I got a bong stuck > > > up me nose. We was letting off sticks of jelly and I got too close. Took > > > a lot > > > of explaining down the A & E. > > > > > > Where was I? > > > > > > Regards, > > > Bob. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "bob allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <biofuel@sustainablelists.org> > > > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 8:57 AM > > > Subject: Re: [Biofuel] amazing himalayan salt > > > > > > > > > when it comes to drugs, or herbs, or anything that impacts human > > > physiology, the only reliable of > > > measure of efficacy is reproducible, double blind, placebo controlled > > > testing. Anything else is way > > > to easy to manipulate (follow the money as I am told) _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
