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  • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlBrits: Salt is a spice
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    1 year ago

    Well in this case the reputation for “warm beer” is true and I’m willing to die on this particular hill.

    Proper cask ale should be served at between 8 and 12C, AKA cellar temperature, cool but not cold. Nothing beats a traditional pint of ‘best bitter’ in an old pub!

    Plenty of people in the UK drink lager and other styles of beer that are more highly carbonated, stronger ABV, and served colder. Personally I’m not a fan but each to their own.

    I live about an hour from London in a rural area with loads of great pubs but I find it difficult to find a nice beer in most parts of London. It’s much easier to keep a keg of carbonated beer under pressure than a cask ale that you have to finish within a few days of tapping, which is why when a certain proportion of a pub’s clientele start drinking other styles it just isn’t worth it for the pub to keep real ale. Hopefully it won’t become a niche thing.










  • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    I don’t think singular “they” is that common except among very young people, and does lead to confusion.

    As an example, my brother once showed me a picture of a person on a dating app and said “they are nice” and I thought he was talking about the person’s breasts…

    Also, “it” is dehumanising, I’d feel uncomfortable calling someone “it” even if they told me it was their preferred pronoun.





  • In know your comment isn’t serious but do you know how wasps pollinate figs?

    It’s pretty cool, the fig is actually a load of flowers pointing in towards the middle of what we think of as the “fruit”. Each variety of fig has a specific species of female wasp that burrows in and then lays its eggs inside. The male larvae hatch first, fertilise the female larvae, burrow out and die. The females then hatch, use the burrows to exit and fly off to find a new fig. The female wasps fertilise the figs in this process. Some wasps end up trapped inside the fig and get partially dissolved by an enzyme…

    Some commercial varieties have been bred to fertilise themselves but in the wild the figs don’t ripen without the wasps.

    https://www.foodunfolded.com/article/figs-wasps-how-plant-and-pollinator-work-together