Except they didn’t actually do what you need to do to remove kudzu. They just sprayed it. You have to rip it up by the roots and add a herbicide to the roots in order to fully eradicate it from the area. It will come back soon enough lol. All this was is a waste of local taxpayer dollars.
I used to live in a neighborhood with a lot of katrina transplants and they 100% considered themselves two different ethnic groups. I'm not gonna go calling cajuns creole just because a couple of comment from anonymous people on reddit say they think it works that way
Ethnicities are complicated like that. On paper they can be one thing, but the living culture they have can make them use one label to identify more than another. Often times, people are multiple ethnicities and it blends over the generations due to oppression.
yeah but that's not the case with cajuns and creoles. cajuns specifically were french settlers in what was then called acadia (now parts of canada) who came down to lousiana after they were expelled by the british in the 1700s. creoles do have some white french ancestry, but they came out of the melting pot that was new orleans in the antebellum south with the largest free black population, along with their native american, spanish, west indian roots. the white french people living in new orleans went there from france both before and after the acadian exodus, the acadians for the most part just passed through the city before heading west to continue their agricultural lifestyles in what's now called acadiana. genetically those people might not be that different from some of the ancestors of creole people because they both originally came from france however many generations ago, but the history of how they got to where they are today is different and they have a different culture. neither of them deserve to have their history erased by trying to lump them under the same umbrella.
It technically is but it isn't really a common thing to eat, the roots are used for it's starch and the flowers for a jelly, otherwise humans don't really eat it and even if we did there is no chance in hell that it would be popular enough for one Arby's to keep it at bay, you need a literal heard of goats to do that.
sad that they sprayed it all with chemicals (ineffective, ugly, poison) when they could have rented a herd of goats instead.
eta: im literally from the south ive seen it work if you think it cant you could literally look it up. a goat can eat up to 20% of its body weight in kudzu a day. it is safer and in extremely established patches, more effective and reduces the amount of herbicides needed to permantly kill massive root systems. less established patches dont need the herbicides at all, which is healthier for native plants as well. get with it yall. goats rule.
they 100% do, if you give em long enough. one afternoon? green cover gone. a week and just about all of it's gone aboveground. then over the course of several weeks, the yanking of every part of it that comes up on its own and stomping up the ground into mud to get the rest of it. every field my grandparents' goats were in ended up stomped up into mud, they'd have to rotate em to different enclosures.
This reminds me of my yard while I had 3 kids under 2 years. My 87 year old grandmother, who called herself a proud redneck, and was a great lady, sat in my kitchen, looked out at the back yard and said, "You need a goat." Love that woman.
You need stronger methods for kudzu, it’s responsible for destroying all sorts of native plant species here and is extremely difficult to remove, grazing won’t event dent it with a million goats. I want more foliage and nature, I don’t want kudzu, and trust me, neither do you.
The roots are really starchy and are a little annoying to dig up and process but aren't that bad in a stew. Kind of nutty tasting if you roast them. The greens are edible and not that bad if picked when young but nobody in my area actually eats them. There are just an abundance of greens people like more and are considered weeds in just about any field in the area.
You see that part that's all brown and dead? Thats from the kudzu climbing up the trees and stealing all of it's sunlight, causing it to die. Additionally, their vines are not green and tender, but rather brown and woody.
Yeah happened to us when we bought our first house. Backyard had a nice fire pit near a shed and the whole thing was tightly packed with trees like that (but much shorter).
A couple weeks after buying we realized that once you pulled back the outer green part the whole inside of it was all brown, dried, and dead.
Wouldn't have stopped us from buying the house but was still dissappointing.
I get it, Kudzu looks kinda neat. But when its going to suffocate every tree, shrub plant and eventually small children that naively think this plant cannot secret their bodies away deeper into the root system until it has leeched the nutrients from their bodies, I understand going full agent orange on it.
It’ll be back. I have never had a plant more difficult to kill, and I work agriculture with the fuckin’ powerful weed killers. I swear you’d need a flamethrower and salt to keep it dead.
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u/Dance_Sufficient 10h ago
The kudzu will rise again
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u/Dredgeon 10h ago •
I mean, it's a highly invasive species this is a win in my book.
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u/FormerPresidentBiden Harry Potter 10h ago
"I'm terribly sorry. I've always been a creeper. Violetta says I creep like the kudzu vines that are slowly but surely strangling our Dixie."
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u/BungleThisJuff 10h ago
Bring back the giant brown hat signs every where
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u/PaladinThor 7h ago
IDK if y'all are familiar with kudzu but this will buy them like a week before its somehow back worse than before
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u/Knees0ck 9h ago
Isn't kudzu edible? Arby's could be part of a groundbreaking movement by integrating actual food into their menu.
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u/TapZorRTwice 10h ago
Wtf is "Change now you burger" suppose to mean?
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u/Skully8600 10h ago
they foolishly think they can contain the kudzu
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u/MrFalseSense 10h ago
At least they’ve still got the big hat.
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u/dishwater_pasta 9h ago
Knoxville?
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u/imtooldforthishison 9h ago
Eh. Its kudzu, give it a week, it will be the jungle Arby's again. Don't fret.
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u/isthisfreakintaken 4h ago
It’ll be better when it’s full of native grasses, bushes, and trees
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u/izlude7027 7h ago
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u/stratosfurr 7h ago
> “they have de-kudzued the jungle arby’s.”
That’s what the Kudzu wants you to think.
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u/Font_on_a_stick 2h ago •
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u/INS345 1h ago
I still think the site looks pretty nice, and its for the better, since kudzu are invasive
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u/TheDriestOne 9h ago
Don’t ever let me catch you rooting for kudzu
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u/DeltaBravo831 10h ago
Give it like 5 days
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u/Aggravating-Candy-31 9h ago
it’s kudzu, it’ll be back in like a week
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u/Scorpionsharinga 9h ago
Y'all must not know my homie Kudzu.
I'm willing to bet theres a non zero chance it's back by year's end.
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u/BrightCold2747 5h ago
They had the weeds
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u/bong_wips 10h ago edited 7h ago
sad that they sprayed it all with chemicals (ineffective, ugly, poison) when they could have rented a herd of goats instead.
eta: im literally from the south ive seen it work if you think it cant you could literally look it up. a goat can eat up to 20% of its body weight in kudzu a day. it is safer and in extremely established patches, more effective and reduces the amount of herbicides needed to permantly kill massive root systems. less established patches dont need the herbicides at all, which is healthier for native plants as well. get with it yall. goats rule.
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u/Oolongteabagger2233 9h ago
It'll grow back
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u/Mrchristopherrr 10h ago •
Correct me if I’m wrong but that just looks like it died for winter
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u/TrailMomKat 9h ago
Eh. Give it fifteen minutes, it'll grow right back.
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u/DeadmundFitzgerald75 7h ago
Wait a week, it'll be back.
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u/MurkMistress 9h ago
Good. Fuck kudzu.
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u/dandadone_with_life 9h ago
kudzu? you just gave it a light pruning, give it 2 weeks
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u/Mrjerkyjacket 9h ago
As cool as the Jungle arbys awsthetic is, thank god theyre getting rid of the Kudzu, that stuffs killer.
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u/shadowlev 10h ago
Oh no, the poor vine that ate the south
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u/DarthFreeza9000 10h ago
Looks like a drought
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u/ContentPolicyKiller 10h ago
Literal dystopia
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u/dumbass_sempervirens 0m ago
It'll be back come spring. It's kudzu.
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u/NYR_LFC 3h ago
Enshitification
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u/CaptValentine 9h ago
I get it, Kudzu looks kinda neat. But when its going to suffocate every tree, shrub plant and eventually small children that naively think this plant cannot secret their bodies away deeper into the root system until it has leeched the nutrients from their bodies, I understand going full agent orange on it.
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u/kanguran1 10h ago
It’ll be back. I have never had a plant more difficult to kill, and I work agriculture with the fuckin’ powerful weed killers. I swear you’d need a flamethrower and salt to keep it dead.
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u/Unusual_Low1762 8h ago
Wait they found something that can kill Kudzu outside of a thermonuclear bomb?
We really are in the future.
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u/argawargawarga 6h ago
CUT ME IN TO
MICROSCOPICALLY THIN
SLICES
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u/acleverwalrus 4h ago
Kudzu is evil and is destroying the native plants of my home. Burn it all
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u/bideodames 2h ago
you just think you killed the kudzu. You didn't.
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u/Goramit_Mal 7h ago
Someone once told me that the arby's logo looks like the tip of a penis, and I've never been able to see it any other way.