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I've been grown up with sour apples, literally During my youth there were plenty of wild fruit trees around, nowadays they are very rare, sadly.. there's an apricot wild tree just on the side of one of my vineyard which gives the best fruit one can ever imagine and I'm trying to have it to survive as much as possible, though the tree's very old and has been attacked by ivy; besides, it also reminds me of my dad, who was truly in love with it (he even wrote a short poem about it few months before he died). I honestly miss the old times of my grandfathers, life was harder but better.
this is a professional one
or people at home use manual stuff like this one
Actually, if you really wonder, there are 3 different levels of quality in olive oil: extra virgin, virgin and pomace. Extra virgin is made with exclusive mechanical extraction of the oil from the pulp and at low temperature (ambient), plus it has to respect some other organoleptic parameters; this is the kind of oil which is sold for direct human consumption, included raw. Virgin oil is similar but does not respect one or more of those parameters (usually there is excessive mechanical extraction or the use of chemical process to extract the oil); this procedure is reserved for olives that won't in any case respect the organoleptic parameters, so they prefer to extract the most of the possible oil from a lower quality olives; this oil is reserved for food preservation (typically tuna, for instance). The pomace is the result of the chemical treatment of the leftover (nuts and exploited pulp) and is used mostly for the production of animal food, or re-mixed with the final leftover, to produce bio-fuel.
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I knew it! Separating the stone from the fruit involves a lot of manual labor in despite of the mechanical devices you have at hand. I always wondered how a machine could place the olives the right way around so that one never sees olives punctured sideways. Perhaps I could have looked for information online, but holding on to the mystery until an actual olive farmer explained it to me was well worth it. And, for the record, I have never seen the home appliance. Quite interesting that you have those.
Thank you so much for taking time to explain that. Up here we pretty much only get the extra virgin oils as imports. I really like virgin olive oil in cooking. I guess it is no use to transport lower-level oils too far away. We use rapeseed oil locally for similar low-end purposes.
I don't have anything similar at home actually; all that we do is to produce home made olive oil for own use
my pleasureThank you so much for taking time to explain that. Up here we pretty much only get the extra virgin oils as imports. I really like virgin olive oil in cooking. I guess it is no use to transport lower-level oils too far away. We use rapeseed oil locally for similar low-end purposes.
and yes, here as well 95% of the cases they are using seed oil (any kind of it) for food conservation; afaik virgin oil is only used with tuna as of today.
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Cause tomorrow is a brand-new day
And tomorrow you'll be on your way
Don't give a damn about what other people say
Because tomorrow is a brand-new day
Curiously, there used to be a club called Virgin Oil where I live. I think they folded recently but before the crisis. It was notable for being in a really nice building. These kinds of ornate, beautiful stone buildings are commonplace in old civilizations like Italy or Germany (or even Sweden to some degree), but rare in Finland which was an undeveloped country until very recently. Usually those buildings do not house clubs but much more important functions. Everything else is steel, glass, or concrete boxes.
Edit: I cannot figure out this picture thing in this forum, so here you go a link to the wikipedia.
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin...874216161).jpg
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Nice tree! Damn it must have been a nightmare putting all those candle-like lights upward I'll post some pictures of our treeS, probably. You don't do the Nativity, do you?
first, on posting pictures
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Honestly, to me it doesn't really look like an old building, the large windows are absolutely a modern trait, early 20th century for sure. I don't doubt that it has a retro style compared to late 20th century, but it's still utterly modern for our standards
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Yeah putting all that candlelike lights on branches full of the sharp needles is a way of self punishment.
No, no Nativity story or theme, i'm not that religious.
Cause tomorrow is a brand-new day
And tomorrow you'll be on your way
Don't give a damn about what other people say
Because tomorrow is a brand-new day
Me neither honestly, but it's still a combo here (tree + nativity), no matter the religion.. lol I even have some Albanian friends who are Muslim but do still make the nativity, they just don't put the holy family in it
ah, the power of mass consumption
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It's the same for me here. It's grown to be more of a cultural thing rather than religious. A Christmas tree needs its nativity scene just like a Belgian needs his beer or a TWC member needs his rep. Your Albanian friends should just put Muhammed inside the crib. (too bad Muslims don't permit any depictions of Muhammed. It could be a huge market I think, especially to troll Christians).
I find it now that one cannot really underline and elaborate the "undeveloped" part enough when speaking to descendants of ancient Romans and other "Europeans" (yes, people here still have a habit of occasionally speaking of Europe and Europeans as if it was something external).
When Helsinki was made the capital by the new Russian rulers in 1812 for political reasons, it only had about 4,000 inhabitants and probably not much in the way of grand buildings. The old capital Turku (or Åbo by its alternative, Swedish name) had been around for a millennium or so and even had a university since 1640, but the city burned down in 1827. The subsequent generations made disastrous decisions to take down surviving old buildings. The old eastern city of Viborg was lost to the Soviet Union in the 2nd World War. There aren't very many old buildings apart from castles and even those are small and unimpressive by European standards.
Thanks for the reminder to manually add the image tags instead of using the UI controls that don't seem to work right.
you know, if I look outside of the window on my small attic I can see roman ruins
http://prolocovallesanta.it/page2-2/archeologia/
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That is so awesome. You really make that place sound enticing. I would be on my way, if I hadn't heard of your latifundia-style agricultural operations and whips and what not.
I swear I won't whip you.. not much at the least
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i will be the whipping boy
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And tomorrow you'll be on your way
Don't give a damn about what other people say
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Drows are always so sexy..
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I 'm wondering if and why they have a gymn in the underworld...
Those muscles are not because of fighting or hard work.^^
Cause tomorrow is a brand-new day
And tomorrow you'll be on your way
Don't give a damn about what other people say
Because tomorrow is a brand-new day
Nice photos, i didn't know, that Straßbourg has an orthodox church.
Cause tomorrow is a brand-new day
And tomorrow you'll be on your way
Don't give a damn about what other people say
Because tomorrow is a brand-new day