• @grue
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    549 hours 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.

  • @dance_ninja
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    46 hours 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.

  • @Zachariah
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    128 hours ago

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

  • teft
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    2210 hours 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!

  • @ug01x
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    79 hours ago

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

  • Troy
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    410 hours ago

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