Who sent the memo that even the WORD "HERB" is verboten?

[omega minimo]

Local news story. A suburban apartment manager plants a garden at the complex. Neighbors love it. It becomes a community garden and beautiful gathering spot. It feeds families and builds relationships. It provides healthy, fresh produce...

... as the newscaster says, "plenty of vegetables, fruits and spices".............................. :wow: .................... "SPICES"?!!

As they are -- or were -- commonly known, the herbaceous plants in a garden are called "HERBS."

People's right to grow and use herbs is under assault at the Federal level.

Who sent the memo to local news stations that even the word "HERB" is verboten?

[hedgehog]

1. The newscaster couldn't decide if it was "H"erb or 'erb, so he said spice instead.

[KatyMan]

2. Not "herbal" erbal, erb!

Herb.
:D
(you might have to be of a certain age to get that)

[pansypoo53219]

9. hen why is there an H???

i insist on saying HERB!

[omega minimo]

3. That hexplains it!

:think: :spray:

[kestrel91316]

4. The news reader obviously studied "communications" in college, but

has never been in a working kitchen, or read a cookbook, or done any gardening, or whatever.

One more reason I rarely watch TV. The news readers are way beyond STOOPID.

[tridim]

5. It probably has something to do with this herb..

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. I can smell that from here!!

[LanternWaste]

7. The purveyors of good fashion sense, I imagine...

The purveyors of good fashion sense, I imagine...

[omega minimo]

10. LOL

ow :rofl: :yourock:

[trotsky]

8. ZOMG! IT'S TEH CONSPIRACEEE!!!

:eyes:

[omega minimo]

11. yeah I knew someone had to say that with the eyes even. NOBODY who gardens says "SPICES"

:hi:

[trotsky]

12. Because obviously rather than the mundane explanation...

of a TV reporter who doesn't garden and was perhaps told by someone that herbs = spices, this is OBVIOUSLY PROOF OF A MASSIVE GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY TO MAKE HERBS ILLEGAL!

You deserve the eyes, trust me.

[omega minimo]

13. enjoy your black and white world, trotsky.

with your strawmen:
"OBVIOUSLY PROOF OF A MASSIVE GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY TO MAKE HERBS ILLEGAL!"



when have you EVER heard someone call herbs, "spices"?

that's NOT "mundane."

:eyes:

[Raskolnik]

17. "when have you EVER heard someone call herbs, 'spices'?"

I read about a local news story that was doing just that.

Seriously, if you think a podunk local news outlet using sloppy terminology is evidence that there is some conspiracy to remove the word "herb" from common language, you may need to take a step back and get some fresh air for a while.

[omega minimo]

18. why is it Either/Or with you naysayers?

That's just stupid.

You're citing ANOTHER case of local news doing that (AS IN WHO SENT THE MEMO?) underscoring the POSSIBILITY that word went out not to use "herb/s."

Yes, they may be dumb but they think we is dumber.

Here's another fucking strawman, unconscious, Black and White thinking:

"Seriously, if you think a podunk local news outlet using sloppy terminology is evidence that there is some conspiracy to remove the word "herb" from common language, you may need to take a step back and get some fresh air for a while."

If you're in that much denial, maybe you need to step off. :hi:

[Raskolnik]

20. YOU are the one that frames this as being a conspiracy, not I.

You can't have your cake and eat it too; either you think this is a conspiracy to remove a word from the vernacular or you don't.

And I wasn't citing another local news story, I was referring to your own.

[omega minimo]

21. You are stuck in the frame of Either/Or thinking. aka NOT thinking, considering

what's before you with a mind open to possibilities..... there's more than TWO!

:think:

[Raskolnik]

22. Um, I have no idea what you are trying to say. n/t

[omega minimo]

23. Strawman

"eriously, if you think a podunk local news outlet using sloppy terminology is evidence that there is some conspiracy to remove the word "herb" from common language, you may need to take a step back and get some fresh air for a while."





Wake up and smell the spices.

[Raskolnik]

24. No, that's your own OP.

If you don't stand by it, that's your choice.

[omega minimo]

25. Strawman

"If you don't stand by it, that's your choice."

[Raskolnik]

27. I can't believe I got sucked into this silly of a discussion about this silly of an OP

that you apparently take seriously.

I have no one to blame but myself.

Good luck.

[omega minimo]

31. I can't believe the limited thinking some people have and the compulsion to

shoot down something they don't know or care about.

:think:

It's silly yet "you apparently take seriously" the OP question and are unable to consider the facts and possibilities.

You're right, You "have no one to blame but yourself."

[trotsky]

30. If it weren't for projection, you'd have no rhetorical tools in your shed.

YOUR QUOTE: "People's right to grow and use herbs is under assault at the Federal level."

Your "proof" of this? Some obscure local TV newscast where a reporter mistakenly referred to herbs as spices.

The gray view of the world says, "Meh, obviously an amateur reporter who got confused or something."

The black-and-white view of the world says, "People's right to grow and use herbs is under assault at the Federal level."

You are funny. :rofl:

[omega minimo]

32. You're ignorant of that information and you're arrogant about it. How bizarre.

Your ill logic is based on your ignorance. You're mocking the OP based on something you don't know about. :crazy:

That's not just sad, that's SCARY :scared:

"Your "proof" of this? Some obscure local TV newscast where a reporter mistakenly referred to herbs as spices."

That explains a lot around here, if the fact that someone doesn't know something, has poor reading comprehension and can't even see -- let alone connect -- the dots, is used as an excuse to piss on other DUers.............

:thumbsdown:

[trotsky]

35. I am truly sorry that you find reasons to fear in the most trivial of details.

I hope you can find some peace.

[omega minimo]

36. google it, trotsky. educate yourself.

:thumbsup:

[trotsky]

38. ZOMFGWTFBBQ!!!11elevens!

THE UN AND FDA AND KREMLIN AND ILLUMINATI ARE GOING TO OUTLAW ALL HERBS WITH CODEX ALIMENTARIUS!!!

IT MUST BE TWOOOOOO, I READ IT ON TEH INTERNETS!!!1!!

SAVE US, CHUCK NORRIS!!!1!

[omega minimo]

40. Your Mom is calling. Dinner's ready.

[SoCalDem]

43. Just Peaches...but no Herb

[omega minimo]

45. LOL

:yourock:

[hootinholler]

14. They are not growing spices.

Which are generally seeds or bark of plants and trees. Pepper is a spice, oregano is an herb.

Herbs are generally used whole.

-Hoot

[omega minimo]

15. TY Truly spoken

[Raskolnik]

16. delete

wrong place

[Canuckistanian]

19. Probably something to do with this

[Occam Bandage]

26. And they say pot doesn't kill your brain.

[omega minimo]

33. Try gingko biloba

[anigbrowl]

28. Probably nobody; more likely the reporter doesn't know much about plants.

Strangely, I don't feel our herb garden is in any danger whatsoever.

[omega minimo]

34. Grow your own and you won't be affected when you buying herbal products is outlawed.

[anigbrowl]

42. I rather doubt that I'm going to be prevented from buying parsley any time soon.

You probably mean those herbal medecines that aren't FDA regulated even though they're pills, I guess.

[omega minimo]

46. Good German

[anigbrowl]

52. So I take it you have no argument then

Instead of explaining your view and offering evidence for it, you insinuate I'm some sort of nazi enabler because I'm not really convinced that the federal government is out to get me. Have a nice day.

[omega minimo]

53. Strawman

And bullshit:

"you insinuate I'm some sort of nazi enabler ..........."

A good german will look out at their garden and ignore the national or global picture, "until it affects them." One would never compare biological collapse to human genocide, would they? But the enabling behavior is always the same.



"Instead of explaining your view and offering evidence for it, you insinuate I'm some sort of nazi enabler because I'm not really convinced that the federal government is out to get me. Have a nice day."



Why bother. Your previous post broadcast your attitudes and snark quite clearly. This one confirmed it.

Maybe I'm PSYCHIC. :evilgrin:

[Warren DeMontague]

29. Someone in my family dated a guy named Herb, and he was an asshole.

So they may have a point.

[omega minimo]

37. did someone open the swarmhole?

[Warren DeMontague]

39. The Herbhole, maybe.

It leads to another Herbiverse.

[omega minimo]

41. And you know who lives there?

Herbivores.:*

[petronius]

44. I'm betting on a young reporter who doesn't cook and doesn't garden

Gardener: "We have rosemary, chives, thyme, marjoram..."

Reporter: "What are those, spices or something?"

Gardener: " Ummm... yes. Yes they are. (sotto voce) Idiot..."

[greyl]

47. "Vegetables, fruits and spices" is a commonly used set of words.

What country was the newscaster from?

[omega minimo]

48. not in a garden in California full of fresh herbs, no spices.........

[greyl]

49. I don't think you know what you're talking about.

"Spices come from the stems, bark, seeds, roots or fruit of various aromatic plants. They include the tropical aromatics, such as pepper, cinnamon and cloves and the spice seeds, sesame, poppy and mustard."
www.webindia123.com/garden/herb_spi/index.htm

Can you think of a cultural reason why that phrasing would have been used, or are you sticking with the silly, baseless, speculation in your OP?

[omega minimo]

51. Despite your baiting insults, you made the point that garden herbs are not "spices"

Despite your thinking you know what you're talking about.

[MilesColtrane]

50. "Who sent the memo to local news stations that even the word "HERB" is verboten?"

What memo?

[Heddi]

54. the memo she created in her mind

duh