Mould is cool!

[Suezoled]

Okay, so, erm, I was cleaning out my part of the fridge. I threw out some carrots with thick fuzzy blue mould on their tips, a (ahem) empty tomato container with white dots of mould, tiny as pencil tips, scattered throughout the surface, and an old mug of (now dried) tea, with brown mold bits, soft like eyelash hairs, dispersed. Those little colonies each were raised in similar conditions (the fridgie) with differing food sources, with differing colonies that resulted.

It used to be mouldy fruits and vegetables were used on wounds in they hopes they would help them to heal. I was just in wonderment that I was looking at probable "medicines" used in the past. cool!

 

[Dragonrock]

No, what's really cool is when you're cleaning the fridge and you find an empty plate. You have to wonder, did something eat something else?

with apologies to George Carlin and Brown.

 

[Wrath of the Swarm]

Is this an English spelling? I thought 'mould' was "a structure used to shape another, more fluid substance into a particular shape", and 'mold' was "a form of fungus".

 

[wayrad]

Is this an English spelling? I thought 'mould' was "a structure used to shape another, more fluid substance into a particular shape", and 'mold' was "a form of fungus".

Both are usually spelled "mold" in American English and "mould" in British English. Maybe Suezoled is originally British.

 

[CurtC]

In my experieice, the form of fungus is usually spelled "mold" in American English, and the shaping definition is spelled either way.

 

[Suezoled]

erm, no. I just liked the spelling of mould. I also like grey, colour, and dutch courage.

 

[Prester John]

A bluey green mould could well have been penicillin..... or maybe aspergillus. Could have been a lot of other things as well....hm....

kinda pointless post really, oh well

 

[whitefork]

Husker Du was really good, and Sugar was about the loudest band I've ever heard.

 

[Keziah Mason]

Not mold, but still cool...

I once put away a plastic container of leftover pineapple juice. I found it quite a bit later with a gorgeous acetobacter colony (mother of vinegar) in it. I guess the juice first fermented, then the bacteria took over. It was a pretty, flobby glob of goo.

 

[sorgoth]

I remember finding an entire crate of hairy, white oranges.
It was strange. Pretty disgusting, actually.

 

[Dragonrock]

The other day I was cleaning the garage and I found a few old hershey's chocolate kisses in one corner. I picked them up to trash them and one of them collapsed. I very carefully opened another and it was completely empty. I figure ants had very carefully removed all of the contents through the tiny round holes I saw near the bottom.