It’s actually not even good for them. It’s entirely for the presentation to the humans that buy them. It makes them spoil quicker and is also just a waste of water.
On the upside: They feel pretty good as a human on a hot day.
They also installed sprinkler system for tourists at some tourist attractions in the very hot summer of 2015. Except they also did this at the Auschwitz camp. It was quite the uproar.
Nothing like a shower at Auschwitz.
Make sure to tie your shoelaces together so you can find both your shoes after!
I wonder just how tone deaf you have to be to install water fixtures designed to provide comfort at fucking Auschwitz of all places.
People were upset they added misters to Auswitz for the museum tourists? It’s not like they were spraying them with lethal poison like they used to at that location. Sounds like a moment where it only was weird because people made it weird.
One Jewish visitor said that she had lost many relatives to the Holocaust at Auschwitz and that the water misters looked like the showers are family had had to endure before going to the gas chamber. Many Israeli visitors who have experienced the water misters have criticised them as distasteful.
I never really see them in use anymore.
i still refuse to believe it’s a real thing anywhere at any time
I don’t either, but I am in California and I don’t know if it’s because they also learned it makes shit spoil quicker (literally I learned this from working at a grocery store that had them), or if it’s a legal thing to conserve water.
I’m in the Bay Area and we still have them in high and low end grocery stores. At Safeway they even still play the fun little thunder sounds before it starts.
I hate this thing. Love our local market, but they use these and it’s so annoying to have soggy everything.
Veggies weigh more and thus cost more? Win/win. Oh wait…
This! These things are a big pet peeve for me. Such a waste.
Spritz me harder daddy
The equivalent for a person would be decapitated heads in the shower.
It does feel good.
Source: I am a vegetable.
I’ve been on some patios in the summer that actually do this. It does feel very good.
Peppers and cucumbers are the traumatic forced abortions of the plant world. Broccoli and cauliflower are the amputated sex organs of the plants that were cut from their bodies. Celery, brussel sprouts, and artichokes are severed limbs of plants. This is a literal mass grave of dead and dying vegetation, an alter to the horrific mutilation and abuse perpetrated on an entire kingdom of life by humans. A final act of humiliation before we condemn them to the hell of cooking and consumption. I doubt the spray mist provides much comfort.
Fuck you vegetables, you little delicious motherfuckers. I will eat your dicks and corpses.
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Awesome! I’ma start a death metal band and put celery and brussel sprouts on the album covers.
- Track 1: “I will Eat your Artichoke!”
- Track 2: “Your Chopped Broccoli Falling on the Floor”
- Track 3: “Sliced Cucumber”
- etc
Not metal, but here’s some Vegetable Soul: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IKQjHwVc8b0
You should hang out by the veggie tray at parties.
That’s how I met my partner. We both love dips. We could talk or not talk about dips all day long and then do it again tomorrow.
More meat it is then. Save the vegetables!
I’m not vegetarian because I like animals. I’m vegetarian because I hate plants.
That’s fucking metal
No, THIS is fucking metal!
Guess I’ll just eat rocks then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They’re minerals, Grostleton.
Oh sure. They’ve spend millions of years sedimenting to form or metamorphasizing in the warm molten bosom of Mother Earth, just so you can selfishly stuff your gob with their crunchy goodness. I hope you are happy with yourself.
Scientists have determined that rocks have souls. This revelation came on the heels of the discovery last month that souls definitely exist.
The only ethical move is to starve.
On a more serious note, plants communicate with each other through the plant version of pheromones, and some utilize an underground internet / postal service of sorts made of fungi mycelium called a mycelial network. They can even use this network to pass nutrients to plants that are in need.
There is a religion called Jainism that actually tries to avoid harming even tiny organisms and plants. As such they avoid eating things like root vegetables that require the entire plant to be killed in order to harvest them.
Interestingly they are not necessarily against drinking milk, as milking an animal is viewed similarly to harvesting a fruit. Though its my understanding that they may still object to industrial milk production.
In traditional agriculture, you just feed, house and care for an animal, and when its young stops drinking milk, you keep milking the mother so it doesn’t stop making milk.
I can’t see any suffering in that.
Industrialized milk production is a complete perversion of that. It’s what happens when you take a symbiotic relationship and add Capitalism.
I don’t think you need to be a vegetable to enjoy a nice mist.
Be the vegetable you want to be
OK
I need this and a nugget ice machine stat.
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I don’t think you would feel that much being a vegetable, but since no person has ever come back from the vegetable state you just can’t tell.
I think a coma is distinct from a vegetative state. If I’m remembering correctly, a vegetative state involves some disease or injury that has done permanent damage in a way that the person involved will never “wake up”.
I haven’t seen these for over a decade now, they used to be in most stores but it was pretty obvious it created a lot of issues because of all the “moistness”. Good that they got rid of it, at least here in Sweden.
Still super common in Australia.
I feel like “the moistness” ought to be a shitty B-movie world-ending blight.
“Grandpa was killed by the moistness; he shouldn’t have even been in that valley without his power dryers”
The real moistness was the friends we killed along the way.
It probably feels a lot more like this
Produce was my first job and we used to come in at 5am and clean these occasionally. They get jelly dangly bits hanging from below the veggies that you just spray off and then wash. It was an interesting event.
Contrary to what you may believe, you don’t have to envy these vegetables and can indeed take a shower yourself.
Thats a misting not a shower tho. Also those veggies aint paying for that water.
Yeah but I’ll never feel as good as those vegetables.
You mean cut and dead?
we had these 20 years ago in my country. but these got removed because they create bacteria and lower shelf life by a lot. nothing good about them at all. just extra cost and work.
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what a loss for vegetable welfare
Was wondering why we don’t have this in Europe, and the answer is once again, common fucking sense.
I’ve seen them last year in france at some places unfortunately.
They are still around here where I live but they are kinda needed since its dry here (under 20% mostly). Without them the produce desicates. But in moist places? Why?
It was in a coastal region.
That’s gotta be one hell of a moist machine salesman. It would be like trying to sell me a dehumidifier.
It’s quite warm in the north east of the U.K. at the minute, please do this to me.
Another terrifying british 24°C heat wave?
Yep. I like 12 degrees C with a decent chance of rain.
