Noted. Here in Australia, Spinach & Silver Beet are considered the same. Like my US fellow listers, I need to remember this is an international list. I should have said In Australia....
I wonder if Swiss chard is available in Australia? Does it have an Asian name? We eat many Asian vegetables now, due to the Chinese that have been here since the 1850s, & more recently, most Asian cultures are represented. regards Doug On Tuesday 26 September 2006 2:11, Keith Addison wrote: > >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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
