• @grue
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    8613 days ago

    “Normal” lemons are mutants. They’re a hybrid of two different Citrus species, citron and bitter orange, that both look weirder than lemons. In fact, one variety of citron, Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis, is nicknamed “Buddha’s hand” and looks like this:

    So what it appears (to me, at least, as someone who isn’t a biologist or citrus expert) is that that lemon happened to mutate again in such a way that it started partially expressing an ancestral form.

    • @Crackhappy
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      2513 days ago

      How can I unsubscribe from Lemon Facts?

      • @grue
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        4313 days ago

        I don’t know when it’s gonna be and I don’t make any promises, but one day you’ll be browsing Lemmy minding your own business, and – BAM! – lemon fact. There’s nothing you can do about it.

        (…Well, except maybe staying away from topics in which it would be relevant to post facts about lemons. That’d probably work.)

      • Live Your Lives
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        813 days ago

        Can you give more your subscription? I’d like more Lemon Facts.

      • @[email protected]
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        313 days ago

        Could also be a way of calling someone a monkey.

        “Looks like you’re partially expressing an ancestral form!”

    • @[email protected]
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      12 days ago

      I have given you the label “lemon fact guy”. Wear it with pride because I mean it well. Thanks for sharing your lemon knowledge

  • teft
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    2513 days ago

    When life gives you eldritch lemons, don’t make eldritch lemonade. Make life take the eldritch lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn eldritch lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give teft eldritch lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna sacrifice your family! With the eldritch lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible eldritch lemon that burns your house down!

  • @Zachariah
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    2013 days ago

    It’s a keming issue. An o got too close to the l and we ended up with a demon.

  • @ug01x
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    713 days ago

    Much like a rat king this should be known as a lemon king

    • @[email protected]
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      16 days ago

      Don’t stop there.

      Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

  • Troy
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    413 days ago

    Mutant lemon. If it tastes good, you should breed it and create a new product ;)

  • @dance_ninja
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    413 days ago

    Lemon of the Crucible

    Equip to make lemonade.

    A vestige of the crucible of primordial life. Born partially of devolution, it was considered a signifier of the divine in ancient times, but is now increasingly disdained as an impurity as civilization has advanced.