Things that make you go 'hmm'

Blatantly borrowed from jeriendhal

An interesting article on the inter-relationship of electronic distribution and consumer taste.

[Added a quote several hours later in the interest of generating interest.]

Unlimited selection is revealing truths about what consumers want and how they want to get it in service after service, [...]. People are going deep into the catalog, down the long, long list of available titles, far past what's available at Blockbuster Video, Tower Records, and Barnes & Noble. And the more they find, the more they like. As they wander further from the beaten path, they discover their taste is not as mainstream as they thought (or as they had been led to believe by marketing, a lack of alternatives, and a hit-driven culture).

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So now I know what a rosehip tastes like. I can see why the most common recipe for them is jelly, and it's not the taste. The big fruit on this rugosa is about the size of a quarter and most of that space is taken up with seeds and hairy fibers (actually, they remind more more of snips of cotton twine). It would be a major pain in the ass to seed out a few quarts of these things. I'm definitely making jelly and not mucking around with anything that says I have to seed these things. And the gumminess of the one I tried explained well the lack of pectin in the recipes I found, they don't need any more than they have naturally.


And they taste like apples, tart apples. I think that's the megadose of vitamin C the things pack.


I might seed out a few and see if I can get some new rugosas from seed though.