View Single Post
  #15 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
Cindy Hamilton[_2_] Cindy Hamilton[_2_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 14,590
Default Lettuce and water

On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 4:43:01 PM UTC-5, Hank Rogers wrote:
> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> > On 11/26/2018 1:56 PM, wrote:
> >> On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 10:11:06 -0700, graham > wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 2018-11-26 9:21 a.m.,
wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:51:20 GMT, Pamela >
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 18:40 22 Nov 2018,
wrote in
> >>>>> news > >>>>>
> >>>>>> On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 graham wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> A US woman on the CBC this morning pointed out that bottled water is
> >>>>>>> 96% water and 4% plastic. Lettuce is 96% water and 4% cellulose etc.
> >>>>>>> Therefore, not only are square miles of good agricultural land being
> >>>>>>> wasted but also all that fuel used to transport "water" across the
> >>>>>>> country in refrigerated containers.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Do you know what else is 4% water and 4% cellulose... your pinhead.
> >>>>>> Bottled water is bottled very local to where it's marketed, from
> >>>>>> someone's hose bib... not transported more than perhaps fifty miles
> >>>>>> and is NOT refrigersated.
> >>>
> >>> Why don't you try reading my original post when you are sober! Even
> >>> someone with a low, double-digit IQ could see that it was referring to
> >>> the transport of LETTUCE!!!!
> >>
> >> You wrote transport "water"... sober up!
> >>

> > Lettuce is mostly water. Made sense to me in the comparison of bottled
> > water and packaging and the cellulose of lettuce holding 96% water.

>
> The only real water is RO filtered.


I'm going to go home and push my lettuce through an RO filter.

Cindy Hamilton