Spyke

Red and green is the way to go. You're great at christmas, you can draw 2/3rds of the bell peppers, and (I presume) you get a discount on baby back, baby back ribs.

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lemm.ee

Um. 2/3 of the bell peppers? There are yellow, orange, purple, and white bell peppers too. Do your bell pepper research. Amateur.

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juliebeanreply
lemm.ee

i'm actually curious what they think the third color is, cause, at least where i am, grocery stores almost always have green, red, yellow, and orange.

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Haha same, because yellow and orange and two of the common ones. I could see not being aware of white and purple because they are pretty niche and rare.

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lemm.ee

Number 6 always felt like a betrayal when you realized it wasn’t black.

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Wait until you realize that number 8 is actually teal blue! Gotcha!

The lesson here is not to peel off the labels.

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Fun fact: if you want something to taste delicious, you go for blue. Blue food doesn't exist in nature, so it is designed to taste delicious.

So #5.

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lemmy.myserv.one

I thought so too, until I saw the truth.

A waxy covering coats some blue-colored fruits — such as blueberries, dark grapes and certain plums. This wax contains a host of tiny structures, each less than a thousandth the thickness of a piece of paper. Such nanostructures scatter blue and ultraviolet (UV) light. To our eyes, that makes these fruits look blue. Birds — which can see UV light — probably see such delicious snacks as bluey-UV.

But if you rub off the outer layer of wax, a blueberry no longer looks blue — or red. Instead, it’s completely dark, Rox Middleton says. Middleton is a physicist who works at the University of Bristol in England and at Dresden University of Technology in Germany. Structures in the fruits’ waxy outer layers create blue hues that are faux, her team now shows.

https://www.snexplores.org/article/why-blueberries-blue-crystal-pigment

Sadly, when you blend blueberries in a smoothie it turns your smoothie purple.

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They're very reputable. Sometimes biased to one side, but most are to one direction or another, at least a bit. Works just fine though.

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los_chillreply
programming.dev

White crayon is a secret weapon when doing watercolor. Lets you mask areas you want to leave without paint. So that's my choice.

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Oh neato! I thought that one was for when you had black paper. I do remember using plain wax crayons on easter eggs though.

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#1 since it's the shortest and the meme clearly says that I'm restricted to one crayon until mine runs out

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lemmy.world

isn't 8 one of those old dock worker crayons from the early 1900s that was toxic? why'd you give your toddler that?

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So that the toddler can enter the workforce and start pulling itself up by the bootstraps as soon as possible. The lithium mines need more bodies.

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takedareply
lemm.ee

Can you provide more detail about it? Or links to articles. I have problem finding details as I don't know what to search for.

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okay looking for stuff to verify this was not only unreasonably difficult, but when I found this I get to thinking I might've been thinking of grease pencils this whole time. Also I did find something about crayons made before 1970 having lead, but what DIDN"T have lead back then?

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Same. Purple is a great color (grape flavored) and it's one of the smallest so I'll be done sooner

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I'd be fine with any of the Crayola ones except #7.

#7 can be used for drawing on Easter eggs before you dye them, but that's a once a year for three minutes kinda deal, definitely not committing to "until it runs out" for that one.

Any crayons that aren't Crayola are straight trash. Miss me with that Rose Art and restaurant kids menu crayon crap.

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moakleyreply
lemmy.world

It's actually a teal blue! Tricky, right? And I believe it's a Crayola.

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My dumb ass was searching for the one that’ll have the longest lifespan and I kept thinking how would he know beforehand.

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