All Their Stupid Ideas Can be Reversed
and We Will Make the Deserts Bloom

A part of me lives for the sustenance of Ms Nickson's weekly auguries.

Hesitate to push back against Ms. Nickson, love the lady. She knows and defines our enemies to a tee, I pray she has a handle on this but man the forces we are fighting are deep.

"Farmers must till deeper and deeper to find live earth to plant. " Remember when tomatoes tasted like tomatoes instead of styrofoam? Remember when you could buy blue crabs that measured a foot across? Remember peaches that didn't taste like cotton batting? I do. The topsoil and oceans have been raped and now we need weird seasonings to make ordinary food taste right. I'm all for farming and beef cattle and meat-eating but I'm old enough to remember real food.

Every Fall for the last 20 years, my Wife and I search high and low for delicious soft and sweet McIntosh Apples from the North West. Other apples out there look nice but are stone hard and bitter compared to the McIntosh! Am retired living in Arizona and biting into the McIntosh brings back lost memories for enjoying a real apple! Great article.

Wiping out the entire garbage dump that is the Biden administration is the critical first step and the un-American Obamas with them, the rest is just simple, common sense logistics. There isn't one decent human being in Washington, just a cabal of weirdos, sexually perverted slimeballs and power-hungry, low IQ misfits. If we have to get violent and bloody, so be it. Our country is at stake.

Great point, #3. Naturally delicious foods have been enhanced, pumped with chemicals and hybrided to death to make them bigger, spotless and more pleasing to the eye at the expense of flavor and natural nutrition. Profit is the motivator but I would rather have a real apple with a wormhole than a big pulpy mass with zero flavor. Pick some wild Blueberries and compare them to the huge frozen things you get in a bag and there is no comparison.

#3, I've discussed this with my children so many times - the food today does not taste the same! My brain still remembers how they SHOULD taste and it is disappointing to bite into so much of what they offer now. Bananas even have become almost bland. And the insane thing about that is that the naturally occurring sweetness of fruit was meant to satisfy our cravings for sweets. Now we're indudated with so much cane sugar tha fruit has a hard time competing, and even more so when they modify them so much that they are just bland and tasteless. It is very sad and disappointing. Also, you mentioned the blue crabs. When I was little, my grandparents lived in La Porte, TX, very close to Galveston. In the summers we would catch crabs (not blues - we mainly got those from over in Louisiana) off the jettys in Galveston and boil them (some for gumbo, some just to eat), and we'd eat the actual crab, not just the meat in the legs, which is really kind of a waste of time in my opinion. LOL That crab was so sweet and delicious. I bought some blue crabs recently to make some gumbo, and they were almost flavorless. And, then there's the shrimp! My aunt lived in Pasadena, TX, not far from Galveston, and her father was a shrimper. He worked out of Matagorda, catching shrimp in the Gulf. He sold it, but he always gave a lot of my aunt, and she would freeze some for us to bring home when we'd go visit. That shrimp was sweet, but not fake sugary-injected sweet. I can't truly adequately describe it, but I do remember it and, what I know for certain is that the shrimp I buy today, even what is caught in the Gulf, does not taste like that shrimp. I feel like I'll never get to taste it again, and it makes me very, very sad.

#4, McIntosh are my favorite! My dad loved them and got me hooked on them. They are the perfect "sweet-tart" blend. But, I have noticed that they are getting harder to find each year, even in the small window they are normally available. Now it seems to be all about the giant Galas and Honeycrisps.

I’ve thought for years that food didn’t taste the way I remembered it tasting in my youth. I always blamed it on aging taste buds and did an experiment two years ago. When my kids were small I raised huge gardens and canned enough vegetables to last until the next years crop. I loved it, it was a fun thing to do not a necessity. I’m a green bean freak and the green beans I grew were a variety I got from Henry Fields called Tendergreen. I found those seeds from a heritage site and planted two short rows and I promise you, they tasted nothing like I remembered from years ago. Really disappointing. But also a learning experience. Things just do not taste the way they used to, at least for me. But I do agree completely that most vegetables have been hybridized to the point their flavor is gone. I’ve noticed it most in potatoes. Flavorless monstrosities that need mountains of butter and salt and pepper to even taste. Or is it just my ancient taste buds again?