So, This Just Happened To A Friend Of Mine

[PollyannaMom]

...this is one of the strangest threads on the DIS. People talking about serious issues like racism and scientific theories right there with posts about margaritas and cantaloupe.

Ah, but that's the beauty of the DIS! We "multi-chat"

 

[RedAngie]

I'd consider any stranger who offered me food in an elevator to be a complete nutjob.

 

[Pacolovestacos]

I'd consider any stranger who offered me food in an elevator to be a complete nutjob.

Unless it's a white chocolate chip cookie. I'll be forced to eat that.

 

[DopeyDame]

I get what the article is saying. That doesn't necessarily mean that article is 100% correct no more than any the pp could post links to may be 100% correct. It is a stereotype.

BUT, that doesn't mean that everyone who offers someone watermelon is being a racist.

Its a food that is extremely popular in the south especially since so many grow them. The best ones are eaten right out of the field. On any given day from about the 1st of July to the 1st of September, someone is going to bring a bowl of watermelon to the office in almost every office.

I want to work where you work!

 

[luvsJack]

I want to work where you work!

It gets pretty yummy around here in the summer. watermelon and cantaloupe, garden tomatoes and cucumbers, peaches and pears. . . And then in the fall folks bring in pecans!

 

[amberpi]

It gets pretty yummy around here in the summer. watermelon and cantaloupe, garden tomatoes and cucumbers, peaches and pears. . . And then in the fall folks bring in pecans!

We've got a lot of that. Plus in the fall, butternut squash, tons of apple (cooking, not eating), more greens...AND we get so many nuts.

 

[Wishing on a star]

My FAVORITE has to be local homegrown tomatoes!!!!!
OMG!!!!

 

[Wishing on a star]

Unless it's a white chocolate chip cookie. I'll be forced to eat that.

Yes... who can pass up home-made COOKIES!!!!!

 

[rastahomie]

We've got a lot of that. Plus in the fall, butternut squash, tons of apple (cooking, not eating), more greens...AND we get so many nuts.

There isn't much that I miss about having a 9-5 desk job, but the sharing of food at the office is one of those things that I do miss.

I live in a land where people don't grow things. You're not getting anything out of the soil 'round here except trees and grass. My father-in-law, Og love him, has the greenest thumb in southeast Missouri and can coax the most delicious vegetables out of this recalcitrant soil. People line up down the road for his tomatoes each summer.

 

[DopeyDame]

It gets pretty yummy around here in the summer. watermelon and cantaloupe, garden tomatoes and cucumbers, peaches and pears. . . And then in the fall folks bring in pecans!

The most I can hope for is the occasional donut in the kitchenette.

 

[pryncess527]

I'd absolutely take fresh fruit from a stranger in an elevator. Has there been a rash of strangers poisoning people with fresh fruit I should be aware of?

 

[Hikergirl]

I'd absolutely take fresh fruit from a stranger in an elevator. Has there been a rash of strangers poisoning people with fresh fruit I should be aware of?

Nope, just don't take fruit from anyone you meet in the woods.

 

[amberpi]

Nope, just don't take fruit from anyone you meet in the woods.

Lol. Beat me!

 

[DizBelle]

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[rastahomie]

In fact, once you control for factors like poverty and education and nutrition, there really isn't any human quality that's linked to skin colour other than a slightly reduced likelihood of developing melanoma.

And sickle-cell anemia.

 

[Magpie]

And sickle-cell anemia.

"Sickle cell is found more frequently in persons of Middle Eastern, Indian, Mediterranean and African heritage because those geographic regions are most prone to malaria. The gene variant for sickle cell disease is related to malaria, not skin color." http://www.understandingrace.org/humvar/sickle_01.html

So, still not linked to colour!