Cannabis referendum.

[Bonez]

I always thought "tomato" was a code word form dope plants any way....

[Viking01]

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dar.13087

A very recent review paper on the cannabis legalisation challenge. About 8 pages A4. Might be of interest to a few.

Provides a little history, as well as comment on the experience within several overseas jurisdictions.

[jellywrestler]

I always thought "tomato" was a code word form dope plants any way....

is that cause a lot of people called you tomato over the years?

[mashman]

I'm not sure about that.

In pasta sauces, tomato and the acid therein are what combine everything. You'd need to replace them with something else for it to work, and I bet a million dollars that everyone would taste the lemon or whatever else you could use.

Same with salsa and the like.

At the most basic level, tomato is even important in a 'dagwood' sammich.

Fair points. It was a gross generalisation in ways. I've heard people say that they can taste that lemon zing in something, but I've yet to hear anyone wax lyrical about the tripiness of the tomato, unsung hero or not. By the looks of things sugar content has a massive effect of flavour in sauces, hence we buy not "lite" versions of everything, if not out of stock, coz sugar = not yuck. And were sugar fails, the smart boys in the lab have created flavour enhancers. Mother fuckas are putting real tomatoes out of work. Grades of food eh.

[Kickaha]

At the most basic level, tomato is even important in a 'dagwood' sammich.

I've always found tomato to be tasteless slush, I cant eat them

[Bonez]

is that cause a lot of people called you tomato over the years?

Nah. No one has done that. Usually carrot top or ginga which I can live with.

[Laava]

I always thought "tomato" was a code word form dope plants any way....

This kind of does just confirm that you have been taking the wrong drugs.
Be sure to stay away from those "pumpkins!"

[george formby]

Fair points. It was a gross generalisation in ways. I've heard people say that they can taste that lemon zing in something, but I've yet to hear anyone wax lyrical about the tripiness of the tomato, unsung hero or not. By the looks of things sugar content has a massive effect of flavour in sauces, hence we buy not "lite" versions of everything, if not out of stock, coz sugar = not yuck. And were sugar fails, the smart boys in the lab have created flavour enhancers. Mother fuckas are putting real tomatoes out of work. Grades of food eh.

Stuff that is labelled low sugar is usually sweetened with artificials which can be quite nasty. Aspartame Like licking freshly polished aluminium.

Low fat is usually flavoured with sugar to compensate. Chubbers beware.

Tom's are usually quite acidic hence the acid free plum tom varieties. The wee cherry ones are usually very sweet, particularly if they get lots of sun, great for making pizza sauce.

Bog standard tomatoes need honey or sugar to help us get the full flavour. Or dry / slow roast them. Intensify me, Inxs, I think.

Sugar does not change taste it just makes our taste buds more receptive. Same as salt, acid ect.

Amazingly, my tomatoes are pumping!

[Laava]

Strange year alright! We harvested our pineapples and some bananas last weekend.

[george formby]

Strange year alright! We harvested our pineapples and some bananas last weekend.

When did you move to Raro?

[mashman]

Stuff that is labelled low sugar is usually sweetened with artificials which can be quite nasty. Aspartame Like licking freshly polished aluminium.

Low fat is usually flavoured with sugar to compensate. Chubbers beware.

Tom's are usually quite acidic hence the acid free plum tom varieties. The wee cherry ones are usually very sweet, particularly if they get lots of sun, great for making pizza sauce.

Bog standard tomatoes need honey or sugar to help us get the full flavour. Or dry / slow roast them. Intensify me, Inxs, I think.

Amazingly, my tomatoes are pumping!

I've never licked freshly polished aluminium... but I can grasp what ya mean. Had a mate who grew Stevia, but whilst it got close to tasting like sugar, it just missed the same payoff in terms of flavour, ending with a more saccharine taste... you know, cardboard.

Sugar does not change taste it just makes our taste buds more receptive. Same as salt, acid ect.

So when you put a sugar cube in your mouth, you're simply tasting what your mouth tastes like at that time, and not the sugar?

[rastuscat]

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dar.13087

A very recent review paper on the cannabis legalisation challenge. About 8 pages A4. Might be of interest to a few.

Provides a little history, as well as comment on the experience within several overseas jurisdictions.

Facts? Facts? Are you mad? This is KB, facts are of little relevance on here.

[Viking01]

Facts? Facts? Are you mad? This is KB, facts are of little relevance on here.

I didn't make a mistake and say it was factual, did I ? All it had to be was "convincing".

[FlangMasterJ]

More like reeferendum amirite guys?

[george formby]

So when you put a sugar cube in your mouth, you're simply tasting what your mouth tastes like at that time, and not the sugar?

I have students that ask questions like that, annoying wretches.

Describe the taste of the sugar and we will converse.


Foreshore, sugar, salt, acid, umami, bitter, cause a "taste" but they are rarely dominant unless you put in too much, then they overwhelm the other compounds which is when they become apparent. If you sucked a box of sugar cubes the taste would peak, your taste buds are saturated. Same with eating spoonfuls of salt. Don't do it!

When you use seasonings on food it's a bit like a Russian doll, the receptiveness off the taste buds can detect layers of compounds, becoming more refined and subtle as you chew. Without seasoning flavour can be flat, you get the initial taste but nothing more. Lion Red is a good example.

I demonstrate this with pumpkin soup. We make a really nice soup, good stock, roast butternut, mirepoix, bay leaf and a touch of cinnamon, smells delicious. Once the soup is ready we taste. It's flat, a slightly pumpkin / cinnamon dominant, nicely textured, ambiguous orangeness. Sad faces all round. Add sugar, vinegar and salt. Boom. Lingering, rich pumpkin and layers of spice, mirepoix, herbs and cream. Woo hoo, happy faces.


More pertinent to the thread.. I was accosted by an arthritis burdened elderly lady today. Haven't seen her for 18 months, before even a hello, she grabbed me and said you must vote yes in the referendum.
I knew she had been self medicating for a couple of years with the help of a green fairy but it turns out she is now a home grower. She looked the best and most mobile I have ever seen her, sharp as a tack compared to 18 months ago in a supermarket car park, a bit stoned waiting for her husband to finish the shopping.
She makes edibles and topical salves using the whole plant to help with her pain. Her transformation has turned her friends, her husband and family members into yes voters from an unequivocal anti weed, traditional conservative view.
At the moment she is a criminal. That's not right.