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What's wild to me is that apparently there's only one place on this continent that grows lettuce. It seems like a bit of an all-your-eggs-in-one-basket thing t

What's wild to me is that apparently there's only one place on this continent that grows lettuce. It seems like a bit of an all-your-eggs-in-one-basket thing to have one valley in QLD(I think) that does lettuce for the nation, and they have some bad weather and suddenly we're all sans-lettuce.

10u152 4y ago
Yes....and no. Lettuce likes some pretty specific conditions. If there's one area that's perfectly suited to growing lettuce with the minimum resources (fertiliser/water etc) then grow it there. Better than trying to grow it in the desert or somewhere much too cold. If Australians go without lettuce for a month or so nobody is going to die. Eat rocket, spinach and cabbage instead.
- twicetwice 4y ago
  For Americans (and others?) who are OOTL, rocket == arugula. It has a bunch of other names too, apparently.
  - distances 4y ago
    For continental Europeans: they mean rucola
    - BoiledCabbage 4y ago
      Interesting - arugula and rucola are very similar phonetically.
rootw0rm 4y ago
Get some spinach, arugula, cabbage, or any other leafy green?
- paranoidrobot 4y ago
  > cabbage There was big social media/news thing when KFC announced they were replacing lettuce with cabbage on their burgers. A lot of unhappy campers there - tbh I think if they went further and made it a nice slaw with a sharp/tangy dressing then it'd be a massive improvement to their usual soggy, greasy chicken, and undercooked/limp chips (fries)
dbetteridge 4y ago
WA has plenty of lettuce, not sure where that's coming from though.
- sturadnidge 4y ago
  Same in NSW… no $12 iceberg heads around here!
defrost 4y ago
Many rural areas in Ausralia have small scale local area market gardens, here in W.Australia most everything I eat is sourced within a 15 - 20 km radius be it flour, olive oil, lambs, oranges, etc (even the odd banana and a fw mangos) - but that's a far cry from the dedicated single crop volumes required to supply cities and for export. Worldwide there's an issue with regions being devoted to mainly a single crop intended to supply tens of millions across several cities, often overseas. Good when it works, better have a backup alternative when that fails.
- boffinAudio 4y ago
  >(even the odd banana and a fw mangos) Carnarvon represent!

10u152 4y ago

Yes....and no. Lettuce likes some pretty specific conditions. If there's one area that's perfectly suited to growing lettuce with the minimum resources (fertiliser/water etc) then grow it there. Better than trying to grow it in the desert or somewhere much too cold. If Australians go without lettuce for a month or so nobody is going to die. Eat rocket, spinach and cabbage instead.

twicetwice 4y ago
For Americans (and others?) who are OOTL, rocket == arugula. It has a bunch of other names too, apparently.
- distances 4y ago
  For continental Europeans: they mean rucola
  - BoiledCabbage 4y ago
    Interesting - arugula and rucola are very similar phonetically.

rootw0rm 4y ago

Get some spinach, arugula, cabbage, or any other leafy green?

paranoidrobot 4y ago
> cabbage There was big social media/news thing when KFC announced they were replacing lettuce with cabbage on their burgers. A lot of unhappy campers there - tbh I think if they went further and made it a nice slaw with a sharp/tangy dressing then it'd be a massive improvement to their usual soggy, greasy chicken, and undercooked/limp chips (fries)

dbetteridge 4y ago

WA has plenty of lettuce, not sure where that's coming from though.

sturadnidge 4y ago
Same in NSW… no $12 iceberg heads around here!

defrost 4y ago

Many rural areas in Ausralia have small scale local area market gardens, here in W.Australia most everything I eat is sourced within a 15 - 20 km radius be it flour, olive oil, lambs, oranges, etc (even the odd banana and a fw mangos) - but that's a far cry from the dedicated single crop volumes required to supply cities and for export. Worldwide there's an issue with regions being devoted to mainly a single crop intended to supply tens of millions across several cities, often overseas. Good when it works, better have a backup alternative when that fails.

boffinAudio 4y ago
>(even the odd banana and a fw mangos) Carnarvon represent!