Seasoned Roamer Doggie Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 How do I find the fruit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 It's on the ground around the farm areas. It's the little green things that look a bit like pears. Use the inventory button or press i to find them whenever you are around big green bushes. Dikiyoba is not entirely sure about pickled fruit. It sounds like an acquired taste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Scurvy is an acquired disease due to a lack of vitamin C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Owenmoz Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Scurvy is an acquired disease due to a lack of vitamin C. Famously brought to our attention by sailors in the age of discovery. They'd travel for months with non perishable food which in general lacks vitamin C(cept pickles) The result is horrible gingivitis orange and weak teeth. Some ammount of pain . It is also known as avitaminosis C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasoned Roamer Doggie Posted September 27, 2016 Author Share Posted September 27, 2016 Yes, ironic to observe that British ships were constantly seeking citrus (hence "limey"), when they had access to potatoes! Owenmoz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgeoning Battle Gamma Parakeet Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 The Limey came from the experimental approach to C and consumption thereof. They messed around with rations til the citrus was found to ward of scurvy. In my foggy, post debate memory, Limes were available, lasted in old style storage & the sailors could be convinced to consume the lime juice since it was put into their ration of rum...Grog. (Does groggy come from that?) Owenmoz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Owenmoz Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Also to this day the average human can tell that oranges(and other citruses) have vitamin C. While most don't know potatoes do. Tbh though im more familiar with the treaty of tordesilhas age of discovery than the British one. In retrospect the Spanish and the Portuguese started it all and did it before the British. A little communication would have saved British sailors a lot of pain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Edgwyn Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 Yes, but given relations between England and Spain at the time, saving British sailors or making it easier for the British to sail long distances was not a particular interest of Spain's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Owenmoz Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 True but Britain was also about the only country that bought Portuguese wine. That should count for something. Besides a considerable amount of British navy was mercenary. Hell colombus himself was Italian. Though to be fair that was much later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Edgwyn Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 The relationship between Portugal and England/Great Britain is ancient, but there was still a degree of rivalry between the two. While there was a lot of movement of sailors between countries, it was less the case with the officers, England tended to grow its own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Owenmoz Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 True. Even the current Portuguese Hymn is an adultered version of a poem that says lets march against the Bretons in the and(was changed into lets march against the cannons). And since the tordesilhas treaty basically devided the world into Portuguese or Spanish by right(for colonisation that is) it would make sense that they wouldn't look too kindly on English maritime expansion. Well that not withstanding. Its hard to imagine that scurvy and vitamin c were a very well kept state secret for the Iberian peninsula. Im sorry about making a whole fuss on this. Just bugs me that this specific problem could be easily avoided. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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