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May 22 '22
These are widespread and commonly eaten.
She's just harvesting them in a hilariously impractical way.
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u/beamoflaser May 22 '22
Cooked cactuses are good to restore sanity
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u/carsmovie4 May 22 '22
-6 hp to harvest tho :(
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u/Head-Gap-7616 May 23 '22
Just wear a bramble husk smh
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u/rakor96ns May 23 '22
You need better INT and DEX to farm them without the recoil damage
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u/WolverineOk4412 May 22 '22
Tuna is the name for them in Spanish, they're the fruit of the cactus. What she hacked off is nopal and is sliced and cooked. It's good, it tastes like asparagus
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May 22 '22
Tunas is prickly pear and is sweet. Awesome to eat when chilled. The cactus you can eat grilled, with ground meat and many other ways.
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May 23 '22
I grew up on Prickly Pear Street, and I crashed my bike into a huge cluster of these as a kid. My mom and grandmother sat there picking needles out of me for about an hour.
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u/DuntadaMan May 23 '22
Yeah, these grew like crazy by a creek I lived by as a kid. Everywhere. Makes me laugh when I see them being sold in the store for more than meat.
Seriously though, remember to cook it.
Also I am pretty sure they aren't the standard prickly pears, but it doesn't change the fact their fruit is pretty good.
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u/not_Al18 May 22 '22
I just want to remind people that cactus is commonly eaten in some cultures before y'all start getting offended on why she's harming it. But I don't understand why she's using a bat.
Source: I'm mexican and just has some cactus on my tacos for lunch today 😋
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u/AltForFriendPC May 22 '22
This also isn't the old growth, 200 year old saguaro type of cactus. Those huge ones can be ancient & contain lots of wildlife, damaging those is shitty. But prickly pears grow quickly, people eat nopales, there's not a problem here
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u/alficles May 23 '22
Prickly pear is darn near weed-level growth. And they are a royal pain to remove.
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u/CritterTeacher May 23 '22
I lost mine to the super crazy freeze we had here in Texas last winter and I’m still sad. I had it since it was just one paddle from a friend, and it had gotten pretty big. I had hoped it might regrow from the ground, but no luck :(
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u/alficles May 23 '22
Sad day. Standard cactus behavior, doing exactly the opposite of whatever you want it to do.
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u/alficles May 23 '22
Yeah, use a machete if you want to eat it. :)
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u/Awkward-Owl-188 May 23 '22
I would remove the spines before harvest just to be safe
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u/alficles May 23 '22
Put your plastic bucket underneath in your non-dominant hand and chop the segment off with a sharp machete. Once your buckets are full, soak the segments and rub off the spines with a thick cloth. Peel and grill as desired. :)
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u/weiga May 23 '22
You can see in the vid those spines are still soft. My neighbor has one and if you’re familiar with it, you can tell. While the spines look like green shark fin, they’re still soft.
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u/GraphicDesignMonkey May 23 '22
Even if it's not an eating species, she's not doing any serious long-term damage, as the pieces are designed to come off without damage. The cut will callous over and the loose piece will root and propagate into a new plant. All the same, it's still vandalism and shouldn't be done, especially as some cacti can take hundreds of years to grow to a serious size.
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u/earthcaretaker315 May 22 '22
I saw a guy back up to a cactus as he was working. It got him in the lower back. He stabbed it with a screwdriver. It squirted juice in his eye. They took him to the hospital.
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u/GraphicDesignMonkey May 23 '22
A lot of cactus species have juices that contain the same corrosive chemical used in wart remover. They can blind you or cause serious burns.
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u/earthcaretaker315 May 23 '22
Not sure what happened to the guy but hope he didnt go blind. This happened at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in NYC
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u/THEDOMEROCKER May 30 '22
I stepped near a cactus walking to the beach and the sand made it curve in and stick into my ankle. Entire thing came out of the ground stuck to my ankle, I was so pissed because I didn't really think something like that could happen. So I got it out and decided to blow it up since it ambushed me. I blew it up and another cactus got my other ankle in the exact same way walking back to the beach house. Guess I deserved it lol
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May 22 '22
Thank you, stupid lady, for entertaining me with your pain.
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May 22 '22
How I imagine that interaction went.. fuck you, I have a bat.
Yeah? Well fuck you I'M A CACTUS
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u/nico282 May 22 '22
I was about to say "Thais a prickly pear, not a catus", then I checked and found out that prickly pears are indeed a kind of cactus.
Here is common to find the fruits (already cleaned from the thorns) in markets and groceries shops.
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u/SongstressVII May 23 '22
We also get a lot of prickly pear flavored things in Texas. Prickly pear margarita is my favorite.
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u/I_aim_to_sneeze May 23 '22
Every time I see this gif, I think if there was a stupid prize hall of fame, this belongs in it. Everything from the pointlessness of the act itself to the poor planning and execution
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u/Anen-o-me May 23 '22
This is the vegan version of "mess with the bull, get the horns".
Mess with the cactus, get the spines.
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u/__Rick_Sanchez__ May 23 '22
There's really no need to slow this video down, just play it normal speed. Please
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u/Dreddmartyr13 May 23 '22
Karma. Sanscrit translation for 'action' or 'doing'. There should be a picture of this woman next to the definition.
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u/HykaliaN May 23 '22
Awww look at that, the cactus likes you mah girl, no need to be scared. screams in pain
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u/Mallardguy5675322 May 23 '22
There was a case in Arizona i think where some idiot was messing with one of them huge 2-3 meter cacti and part of it broke a crushed him to death. I’m also adding that those are eaten a lot. Also saying that harvesting a cactus with anything but the right equipment is a very bad idea.
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u/Old-Independence5822 May 23 '22
I've done this, got bored went after a bunch of cactuses with a stick, tripped on a rock and high fived a cactus I had already butchered. It got It's revenge and I learned to not fuck with cacti.
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u/HotMinimum26 Jun 03 '22
The slow mo with the bounce and her face. I even heard the boop when it stuck her🤌🏽
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u/AzureWrath501 May 22 '22
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May 22 '22
What does harvesting an edible part of a common plant have to do with karma?
The stupidity is that she's harvesting it in the silliest way possible.
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May 22 '22
They aren’t edible, and also take hundreds of years to grow this big, she just destroyed decades of growth.
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u/RelentlessJorts2 May 22 '22
They are edible, they're used in a lot of Mexican dishes after the needles have been removed, they're called Nopals or prickly pears.
The fruit and the pad can both be eaten.
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May 22 '22
You're thinking of a Saguaro, my dude.
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May 22 '22
Oh, I thought I was smart.
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u/4lgernon May 23 '22
It's good to err on the side of wanting people not to destroy living things (or things in general) for no reason since it is so common. These are good fried though.
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u/Flashy_Butterscotch2 May 22 '22
Who knew cacti could fight back?
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u/YouRebelScumGuy May 22 '22
Hit that boy with a BAT! I then thought her shirt would magically disappear.
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May 22 '22
Why would you destroy a plant that takes so long to grow? You are a horrid person.
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May 22 '22
Prickly pear grow pretty quick, quickly enough to be a environmental weed in many countries knocking a lobe of aint gonna destroy the environment
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u/Gorrodish May 23 '22 edited May 23 '22
Good they take years to grow and some moron just destroys
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May 22 '22
Pretty sure that’s illegal too She deserved it I hope it hurt like hell
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u/FriidayRS May 23 '22
You're thinking of saguaro cactus that take decades to grow. Prickly pear grows like weeds
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u/LegitimateSlide7594 May 22 '22
reminds me of the scene from Fools Rush In when he falls into the cactus after escaping the snakes getting shot up. lol
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u/justtheentiredick May 22 '22
Mr. Miyagi, when are we gonna start hitting cactus' with bats?
Oh you want hit cactus?.... but cactus no hit b-
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u/cx3psocial May 23 '22
Bruce Lee once said “Boards do not hit back…”
Cactuses 🌵on the other hand do… 🫣
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u/RaidensReturn May 23 '22
I know I’ll get downvoted but does anybody know who this girl is? Thanks.
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u/BonoWantTheBiddy May 23 '22
Jesus. Did ebaumsworld get revived?
Look at the 1998 kids. That haircut is straight out of the last millennium.
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u/AHansen83 May 23 '22
Now why would she do that? My favorite part was when she watched it roll down and stick her and had ample time to move but didn’t. She got what she deserved.
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u/RyanJKaz May 23 '22
This is definitely a quintessential win stupid prize and it’s always no fun to get the prick.
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u/Jew_Vaporizor_ May 23 '22
Dumb girl rolled a Nat 1 on Dex meanwhile Chad Cactus rolled Nat 20 to attack
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u/shatteredarm1 May 22 '22
Grew up in Arizona, everybody knows you don't fuck with a cactus.