foraging in the kitchen

[lyschan]

I feel like some sort of hunter-gatherer. Minus the hunter part (but it doesn't make as much sense to say just gatherer). I wandered into the kitchen looking for food, and what I came up with were a handful of dried fruit, a couple almonds, a few grapes and strawberries, and a bit of salad. I guess the dried pineapple wasn't something a normal

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[double_dear]

Maybe if the gatherers were in Hawaii, and some big animal or bird or something knocked a pineapple plant down, smashing open at least one of the pineapples (I'm actually not sure how pineapple plants work, come to think of it) so that the fruit was in the sun long enough to dry it out--then they would have had dried pineapple!

It seems to have gotten cold everywhere again! Even here, where the weather has been so contrary to what all our friends around the country would talk about. Oreo's been meowing about stuff like crazy, too. He keeps wanting treats. He sounds very tortured, as well. Punk.

And we totally bookmarked that link! We're gonna use it next time we have to translate someone with a northern dialect!

[lyschan]

*laughs* Awesome! And thus the Michigan accent will pervade manga

[double_dear]

Yup, it was the MangaLife column. I remember you mentioning accents in manga! I wanted to comment on it, but I think it was a manga review collection post, and there was so much else to comment on that it slipped my mind. But my comment was that there's one series (Spiral: Bond of Reasoning) where the author (in this case it's a collaborative work, with one guy doing the story and another guy doing the art) talked about a new character that he introduced, who uses Kansai dialect. The author speaks Kansai dialect himself, so he figured it would be easy, since it would just be writing the dialogue in just the way he talks, but when he actually wrote it out and read it, it seemed fake

Ooh, Hawai'i talk

[umadoshi]

*g* Hawai'i has tons of mammals! (Although yeah, a huge proportion of the plants and animals were imported over the years. Or drifted in from Fiji or something.) Cattle ranching is one of the Big Island's two biggest industries (the other being tourism). There're definitely goats, cattle, horses, sheep, and pigs, off the top of my head.

Also, I think pineapples will randomly fall off trees when they're ripe enough, although I don't know if that'd break the rind enough for them to dry. Husband thinks they grow low to the ground. Don't mind me. Okay, his exact wording is: "More to the point, the primitive hunter-gatherer would split open his/her own damn pineapple and lay it on a hot lava rock in the sun to dry".