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I can remember at one point we got tired of my mom burning herself at the base of her thumb/top of her wrist, so we replaced her heat pads with oven mitts. She immediately began burning herself at the base of her wrist, just where the mitts stopped. So we bought her longer oven mitts, and she began burning herself at the top of her forearm right (wait for it) where the mitts ended. So Dad told her to just call him when she had things to take out of the oven. She didn't bake but once or twice after he died, so that was a non-issue, but her forearms like yours are a constant mass of bruises and recent scrapes (her skin is similarly fragile).

An absolute boatload of Elite brand sweets (chocolate bars, cookies, chewing gum, the works) are being recalled for salmonella. Distribution is national. https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/various-elite-brand-products-recalled-due-salmonella?utm_source=r_listserv

This one's very localized, but I'll share it because several of you live in ON. Bulk organic poppyseeds sold at at Healthy Planet in Markham are being recalled for salmonella. https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/certain-organic-poppy-seeds-recalled-due-salmonella

Plastic shopping bags (single-use) are outlawed here as well, but oddly the plastic produce bags are still allowed. I'm not sure why.

I walk over to the portion of the produce section where greens and herbs get misted regularly, moisten my fingers there, and then open the bag.

As someone who visits scores (sometimes hundreds) of websites/day in the line of work, this is an increasing irritation for me. Tone-on-tone text, print that can't be resized (ie enlarged) without breaking the page layout, it's just infuriating. I would be very surprised indeed if there's not a significant legal push to extend the ADA to US-based sites (and eventually similar guidelines to non-US sites). As online life becomes more central to everyone, sites' failings on the accessibility front are increasingly conspicuous.

Would that have been Fleur de Sel in Lunenburg?

That's why I don't wear them, personally. Nor clogs, for that matter, which have a tendency to fly off of my foot like a kicked soccer ball. I like footwear that lashes securely into place.

There's also an update on the poppyseed recall. https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/various-poppy-seeds-recalled-due-salmonella?utm_source=r_listserv

Inari brand organic poppyseeds have been recalled for salmonella. Distribution has been at least BC to Quebec, and they may have been redistributed to the remaining provinces. https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/food-recall-warning-inari-brand-organic-blue-poppy-seeds-recalled-due-salmonella?utm_source=r_listserv

...annnnd, just a couple of hours later, there's a correction. I haven't scrolled through them looking for the discrepancies, but here's the corrected list. https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/certain-kinder-brand-chocolate-products-recalled-due-possible-salmonella-0?utm_source=r_listserv

The Kinder recall has been updated and expanded: https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/certain-kinder-brand-chocolate-products-recalled-due-possible-salmonella-0?utm_source=r_listserv

Once more, for anyone who hasn't seen the figures yet... https://www.thestar.com/business/2022/04/07/profiting-from-inflation-two-new-reports-show-companies-are-making-billions-by-pushing-prices-higher.html

I suppose "artificial" is fair. Salmon is not innately pink, the pigmentation comes - in the wild - from the shells of the crustaceans they eat. Farmed salmon may be fed on similar crustaceans but that's costly and therefore rare, so the same pigment is drawn from other sources and added to their rations (which, again, vary widely depending on the farm's operator). I'm told that pale-fleshed salmon were not uncommon back in the day, when salmon in general were more plentiful and occupied a broader range of habitats. I've heard a tale - probably apocryphal - that one cannery's brilliant (if unscrupulous) manager hit on the notion of assuring customers right on the label that their product was "Guaranteed Not to Turn Pink in Can!" Supposedly this led to a brief spike in sales, until rivals took them to court over it.

I eat the greens of my radishes, and in fact I plant radishes at the beginning of the season because they're my second-earliest "cooking greens" (after dandelions). With bog-standard radishes I just separate them and wash them when I harvest the radishes, but with longer-season radishes (or turnips) I harvest them ongoingly on a cut-and-come-again basis.

When I lived in BC I had friends - with gas - who had never, not once, turned on their exhaust fan. "I hate the damned things, they make too much noise" was the rationale. I wonder how they're doing, these days...

I love 'em and plant them every year. So pretty in a salad or anything else. ...oh, and they taste good as well. Let's not forget that.

Interesting, albeit the "language" part is rather a stretch. Underlying study is linked in the article, so you can read it for yourself if you wish. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/06/fungi-electrical-impulses-human-language-study

Apparently the recall of Kinder Surprise eggs has now reached Canada. https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/certain-kinder-brand-chocolate-products-recalled-due-possible-salmonella?utm_source=r_listserv