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The C-Free Diet: If we didn't have California, what would we eat?
Slate ^ | July 10, 2013 | Brian Palmer

Posted on 12/24/2016 12:15:54 PM PST by EveningStar

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To: PIF

“New Jersey is called the Garden State because at one time it had the most vegetable gardens of any state “

There probably used to be gardens in Camden.


161 posted on 12/24/2016 5:33:25 PM PST by Rebelbase (ABC/NBC/CBS/MSNBC/PBS/CNN/FOX are THE LEGACY MEDIA)
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To: Oberon

I think that people need to look at the county-voting map. Eastern California is reliably Republican. They’ve also been screwed over and over by the eco-freaks and Sacramento with regulations and taxes.

I doubt that they’d want to join the new People’s Republican.

So we keep the water. We keep the vast growing areas.

They get three cities and ocean waters that they’ve put off limits for fishing, desalination, and fossil fuel development.

They’re deluding themselves if they think that the state will willingly follow them off the cliff.


162 posted on 12/24/2016 5:51:13 PM PST by Marie (The vulgarians are inside the gate! MAGA!)
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To: Marie

Slogan: “If the US is divisible, then California is divisible.”


163 posted on 12/24/2016 5:54:23 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: stocksthatgoup

“””Vitamin C was responsible for the cure of scurvy and was obtained as an Iroquois decoction from the bark and leaves from this “tree of life”, now commonly referred to as arborvitae. Based on seasonal and diurnal amino acid analyses of candidate “trees of life”, high levels of arginine, proline, and guanidino compounds were also probably present in decoctions prepared in the severe winter. Arbor Vitae””””

Yeah, but try to keep the deer from eating it.


164 posted on 12/24/2016 6:22:38 PM PST by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: EveningStar
Everyone already knows California is truely the land of fruits and nuts.

What most people do not know is that refers to the population, and not its produce.

165 posted on 12/24/2016 6:47:41 PM PST by China Clipper ( Animals? I LOVE animals. See? There's one there, right next to the potatoes!)
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To: StAntKnee

“The state is near bankruptcy already.”

Yeah, but somehow it’s like all the liberal rags that pose as newspapers, somehow it never quite gets to the tipping point. But I continue to have hope that it’s going to go under sooner rather than later.


166 posted on 12/24/2016 7:18:51 PM PST by vette6387
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To: EveningStar

An “independant” California would be reabsorbed by Mexico within five years. Lets give them New Mexico as well as compensation for taking Calexico.


167 posted on 12/24/2016 7:21:28 PM PST by gartrell bibberts ( White privilege...the harder I work, the more privileged I become.)
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To: Bernard

Without all the water appropriated from a distance, they would be back to wrangling longhorn steers as did the Californios.


168 posted on 12/24/2016 7:27:01 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: EveningStar

I think Hollywood would be the seventh, like Berlin or Vatican City.


169 posted on 12/24/2016 7:46:35 PM PST by blackpacific
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To: EveningStar
The C-Free Diet: If we didn't have California, what would we eat?


Cats, its all in the sauce.
170 posted on 12/24/2016 7:52:28 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( Agenda driven news is fake news.)
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To: central_va

Utah, Colorado, Nevada, especially Arizona could utilize the portion of the Colorado River allocated to southern California. California court muscle gained an advantage over Arizona about division of the allocations.


171 posted on 12/24/2016 7:52:40 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: RBStealth

California’s fruits and nuts were donated to us by all of the other states. Until the 60’s we were fine. Y’all sent us your hippy kids, and destroyed things for those of us actually GROWING your food. You you really think that the fruits and nuts are farmers? LOL!! We in the Central Valley are NOT liberals! Because of your donated 60’s jerks, our votes don’t even count anymore.

>:(


172 posted on 12/24/2016 7:59:12 PM PST by bannie
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To: PAR35

And trying to figure out how to move MORE people in to So Cal! They’re looking to those miniature homes. LA CANNOT sustain the people it has, and they want more! Their votes, however, give them the power to siphon off water needed for the farms. LA is sending its human waste to Kern County. Kern citizens fought it, tooth and nail. Guess who won? Please, don’t consider all of California to be your enemy. We were invaded, but we’re still here.


173 posted on 12/24/2016 8:03:55 PM PST by bannie
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To: vikingd00d

God bless you, Viking! They’re all throwing too big a loop!


174 posted on 12/24/2016 8:05:08 PM PST by bannie
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To: Marie

So true...except the part about voting: The commie coast has all of the votes. We’re impotent at the ballot box because of the influx from all of the other states overwhelming us with imported fruits and nuts.


175 posted on 12/24/2016 8:08:19 PM PST by bannie
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To: Ozark Tom

There used to be a huge lake in the center of the San Joaquin Valley—Tulare Lake.

http://www.mylemooreleader.com/125818 — “Tulare Lake was once considered largest body of water west of Mississippi”


176 posted on 12/24/2016 8:10:49 PM PST by bannie
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To: Publius

I like that. Perfect.


177 posted on 12/24/2016 8:11:37 PM PST by Marie (The vulgarians are inside the gate! MAGA!)
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To: bannie

so I throw out a tired California joke(being from Socal) and I get back an impertinent Archie Bunker stlyed rant.

I guess that what happens when you get on your soapbox.


178 posted on 12/24/2016 8:24:09 PM PST by RBStealth
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To: RBStealth

Mine isn’t a soap box! It’s an orange crate! ;) (Merry Christmas, anyway! You’re a Freeper, after all; so you must be perfect!)


179 posted on 12/24/2016 8:42:21 PM PST by bannie
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To: vette6387

Well, it was pointless on my part to argue with such a speculative piece by academics about secession. My point, though, was that, if it were so, California wouldn’t dream of trying to prevent the US from buying its veggies. We’d be at once its most profitable trading partner. I should have kept my keyboard shut.


180 posted on 12/24/2016 8:43:24 PM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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