Poll: Flowers

[vakkotaur]

I haven't felt the best (Details not forthcoming. You're welcome.) for a little while, so even the polls took a break. Hopefully I'll have some real content to post about in while.

[Poll #1370752]

Comments

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

That, I must admit, is complete coincidence. The blue rose is simply the only flower icon I have. I was running out of flower-related questions and remembered that play. I read it a long time ago and found it rather depressing and disappointing. I wanted to see more about the effects of gamma rays, myself.

So now I am curious: What play?

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

I think I read that once. All I can recall now is a bit about Public Speaking and Radio Engineering. The icon is not a coincidence this time.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

I tend not to think of Paul Zindel as being much like Tennessee Williams except that they both wrote about crazy women a lot.

The specific reference is to the fact that Laura (the lead in Glass Menagerie) once had pleurosis and one of the boys in school (Laura's "gentleman caller", Jim) could only get it out of his mouth as "blue roses".

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

I once appeared in a production of Zindel's . . . And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little, which included what many theatre directors consider the WORST audition monologue EVER. In it my character described in vivid detail his reasons for not using the bathroom in his own home. Other directors give this "grand prize" to a speech from Wallace Shawn's Marie and Bruce, in which a man describes in even more vivid detail what it is like to experience a particularly bad hemorrhoid flareup.

[ginafae.livejournal.com]

I am absolutely surprised. Usually when I read or contribute to one of your polls, I have nothing to add.

For once, my immediate response wasn't an option!

I submit:
Dandelions - Food.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

I actually did consider that, but went for the either-or duality.

However, since dandelions will soon be growing and I don't bother with lawn chemicals: Which parts are edible? When should they be picked/harvested? And how are they best prepared?

[ginafae.livejournal.com]

The leaves are edible. They should be harvested before the flower emerges to minimize the amount of ambient chemicals from the environment are stored in the Dandelion. You often find dandelion leaves in "spring green" mixes for salads. I wouldn't keep them alone in a salad, but with some spinach and arugula, quite tasty.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

The stems are also edible and are used to make Dandelion Wine (yet another play).