I know it’s not what you mean, but I enjoy the mental image that you’re carrying pringles to the freezer aisle just to throw them into the freezer as hard as you can.

If tuna is chicken of the sea, then it follows that chicken is only tuna of the land. Touch tha fishy.

To be fair, techs don’t usually talk to the people who can read, so they’re only ever going to see idiots. There are competent people in the world, they’ll just never need your help, so you don’t see them.

Last time I called tech support, it was for a Dell, and I interrupted their speech to tell them I already looked up the diagnostic. They asked which numbers were lit on the error panel to confirm I had the right diagnostic, and passed me directly to who I needed to talk to. I only called tech support because the cpu socket died and I was putting in a warranty claim, otherwise they would have never even heard from me because I could just install a new motherboard myself.

edit: speeling

I’m sorry, I probably should have linked what I was looking at earlier!

This suggests that limes and lemons do not degrade at a markedly different rate. Arguably, this is under modern refrigeration, and not the conditions on a 1900s era sailing ship, but I haven’t seen a source for that yet. I think your namesake is a bit cooler than you’re giving it credit for, haha.

Could it handle those conditions? I was under the impression that all vitamin C degrades with exposure to heat, light, and air. I’m not seeing anything that suggests lemon juice is immune.

Right. The problem is not that they used limes, it’s that they did a bunch of stuff to neuter the effectiveness of the limes.

No, I know, that’s what I’m curious about, haha. I think the expedition is a red herring here.

For all my searching, I can only turn up sources that say limes are less effective than lemons, and lemons are less effective than oranges, and all citrus is less effective than fresh mammal meat, particularly liver. I can find sources that say the vitamin c breaks down when heated, so the navy’s switch from fresh limes to canned lime juice made things worse around the age of the steam ship.

I cannot find sources that say limes don’t work to prevent scurvy, and was wondering if you did.

This blog doesn’t support your claim at all.

This time Scott made sure to provide his men with fresh seal meat, and scurvy was not a problem in the main camp.

One of Scott’s goals for the winter journey had been to determine the proper ration for sledging up on the Polar plateau, where the men would have to hike for several weeks at altitudes above 10,000 feet. After some tinkering with proportions, the men on the Winter Journey had settled on a satisfying ration, and Scott decided to adopt it unchanged for his own trip later that year: Scott’s Polar ration: 450g biscuit, 340 grams pemmican, 85g sugar, 57g butter, 24g tea, 16g cocoa. This ration contains about 4500 calories (sledging requires 6500) and no vitamin C.

You said they brought ‘tonnes of limes’ and got scurvy despite that.

Australia’s next invasive problem, once I get the funding together to import some.

I need sauce for limes not preventing scurvy. I was under the impression that the Terra Nova expedition failed because they flat ran out of rations and got stuck in a storm so they couldn’t resupply.

Evil doppelganger

Here’s a higher resolution image of the packaging. It’s in the bottom right corner, above the nutrition labeling.