Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 26, 2012
February 25, 2012
February 27, 2012
Transcript:
Girl: What's that thing Frazz: It's a kiwi fruit Girl: It looks like a big, hairy goose egg. Frazz; Good eye. It was called a chinese gooseberry until 1953. Girl: No wonder! Frazz: Oh, that's nothing compared to what marketers did with fish. Would you want to eat a slimehead? Or a patagonian toothfish? Neither did anybody elsem until they started calling them orange roughy and chilean sea bass. Now they're so popular they're at risk of being overfished. Girl: I mean no wonder it's all green inside. Frazz: No, no. They renamed the whole species.
Dr. Midnight: Correct. It was called rape because the way it would take over a wheat field. Then they discovered a use for it more valuable than wheat. “A weed is a plant for which we have yet to find a use.” “A weed is any plant where you don’t want it. A rose bush is a weed in a wheat field and wheat is a weed in a rose garden.”