Posted on 11/21/2012 3:16:45 PM PST by PJ-Comix
You know I love that organic cooking
I always ask for more
And they call me Mr Natural
On down to the health food store
I only eat good sea salt
White sugar don’t touch my lips
And my friends is always begging me
To take them on macrobiotic trips
Yes, they are
Oh, but at night I stake out my strong box
That I keep under lock and key
And I take it off to my closet
Where nobody else can see
I open that door so slowly
Take a peek up north and south
Then I pull out a Hostess Twinkie
And I pop it in my mouth
Yeah, in the daytime I’m Mr Natural
Just as healthy as I can be
But at night I’m a junk food junkie
Good lord have pity on me
Well, at lunchtime you can always find me
At the Whole Earth Vitamin Bar
Just sucking on my plain white yogurt
From my hand thrown pottery jar
And sippin’ a little hand pressed cider
With a carrot stick for dessert
And wiping my face in a natural way
On the sleeve of my peasant shirt
Oh, yeah
Ah, but when that clock strikes midnight
And I’m all by myself
I work that combination on my secret hideaway shelf
And I pull out some Fritos corn chips
Dr Pepper and an ole Moon Pie
Then I sit back in glorious expectation
Of a genuine junk food high
Oh yeah, in the daytime I’m Mr Natural
Just as healthy as I can be
Oh, but at night I’m a junk food junkie
Good lord have pity on me
My friends down at the commune
They think I’m pretty neat
Oh, I don’t know nothing about arts and crafts
But I give ‘em all something to eat
I’m a friend to old Euell Gibbons
And I only eat home grown spice
I got a John Keats autographed Grecian urn
Filled up with my brown rice
Yes, I do
Oh, folks but lately I hae been spotted
With a Big Mac on my breath
Stumbling into a Colonel Sanders
With a face as white as death
I’m afraid someday they’ll find me
Just stretched out on my bed
With a handful of Pringles potato chips
And a Ding Dong by my head
In the daytime I’m Mr Natural
Just as healthy as I can be
But at night I’m a junk food junkie
Good lord have pity on me
“Reminds me of wild hickory nuts...”
“scuse me, cute poetry, but a flat lie. Got integrity? Seen it at a distance lately?
I planted a small patch of asparagus and it takes about 5 years to get a good eating asparagus. One year I decide to mulch it because of the weeds. Don’t ever do that, it killed all the plants, but one of my neighbors on the farm used to ride the back roads when it went to seed and would dig it up...When they go to seed, they are about 3-4 foot tall and are easily spotted along the sides of the road and you dig up a mature plant....If you have ever seen the house plant asparagus fern it looks just like that with some red berries on it....only a lot bigger...and tasty..It will keep bearing fruit as long as you cut it off at the base....it goes to seed if not cut.
Good to know about the mulch. I have a small patch in the garden. Not big enough to do much with yet but next year for sure. Usually, I pick a piece and munch on it when I’m out there.
*cough* Those are the lyrics from “Junk Food Junkie”, a cute little song from the 1970’s, obviously performed for laughs.
In my back yard I have a patch of wild asparague. I do the same thing when cutting the grass. That silly patch sits in the middle of that part of my yard. Was there when I moved in. You’ll find (in case you didn’t know) the hotter the weather the faster it grows. The farm had an old, large patch of it. I use to like to cut it at about 6-8 inches. Some days I’d cut in the morning and take to work for an asparagus lover and if it was a hot summer day, I could cut again in the evening. Weather cools, its growth slows down a bit. The farm was 100 years old so I don’t know how old the plants were.
From Wikipedia:
Pine nuts produced in Europe mostly come from the Stone Pine (Pinus pinea), which has been cultivated for its nuts for over 6,000 years, and harvested from wild trees for far longer. The Swiss Pine (Pinus cembra) is also used to a very small extent.
In North America, the main species are three of the pinyon pines, Colorado Pinyon (Pinus edulis), Single-leaf Pinyon (Pinus monophylla), and Mexican Pinyon (Pinus cembroides). The other eight pinyon species are used to a small extent, as are Gray Pine (Pinus sabineana), Coulter Pine (Pinus coulteri), Torrey Pine (Pinus torreyana), Sugar Pine (Pinus lambertiana) and Parry Pinyon (Pinus quadrifolia).
In the United States, pine nuts are mainly harvested by Native Americans, particularly the Uto-Aztecan: Shoshone, Paiute and Hopi, and Washoe tribes.[4] Certain treaties negotiated by tribes and laws in Nevada guarantee Native Americans’ right to harvest pine nuts.[5]
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