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The spice must flow [PHOTOS]

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  • jeremyosborne81, on 11/08/2009, -3/+112"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."
  • bossm4n, on 11/08/2009, -1/+100How do they keep the sandworms away?
  • davidwasman, on 11/09/2009, -2/+97Walk without rhythm and you won't attract the worm.
  • sigmaman2, on 11/09/2009, -2/+79I must not Digg. Digg is the time-killer. Digg is the little website which leads to total obliteration. I will face Digg. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when Digg has passed, I will turn my inner eye to see its path. Where Digg has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
  • lolwatermelon, on 11/09/2009, -0/+69By walking without rhythm, duh.
  • ticookie, on 11/08/2009, -0/+68Just don't sneeze...
  • inactive, on 11/08/2009, -2/+50The Spice must flow.
  • HenryKillinger, on 11/09/2009, -3/+47Dugg because Digg's front page should never be without Duneisms.
  • graygorey, on 11/09/2009, -1/+37Nevermind the Dune references... the spice market's an important cultural reference for anyone of recent (last 700 years) European descent. Before forays into the East, everything just tasted like itself - beef was "beef flavored," pork was "pork flavored," etc. Royalty notoriously tried to expand the world of flavor by expanding the menu - eating dishes composed of things like "larks' tongues" and the like.

    Access to spices came with trade, and that revolutionized European cooking. Normal ingredients took on new properties with the addition of spices. Bland ingredients found new character. Bolder ingredients saw new depths or built-up compound flavor profiles. Cooking in Europe depended on markets exactly like these.

    These photos aren't outlandish, unless you've never walked down the "Spices" aisle in a modern supermarket - these are the raw ingredients that make up your modern kitchen. You may not realize just how exotic your own palate is, or how much your own diet depends on ingredients from remote corners of the globe, but it's worth consideration.
  • BeShirtHappy, on 11/08/2009, -3/+38So "the spice" is real?!?!
  • SAKevin, on 11/09/2009, -0/+31Some of these are colored powders for playing Holi, not spices.
  • ocharry, on 11/09/2009, -0/+28POLO!
  • gurudatt143, on 11/08/2009, -3/+31Nice colorful spices.
  • blitzkriegpunk, on 11/08/2009, -1/+27By surrounding the markets with water?
  • yocouchdigga, on 11/09/2009, -3/+28You could get lost here: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune
  • Badfish2, on 11/08/2009, -2/+25MARCO!
  • Culyt, on 11/09/2009, -1/+24But if you walk without rhythm, you never learn.
  • Praystation, on 11/09/2009, -0/+21*Christopher Walken breaks into a wicked dance in an empty lobby*
  • marconius, on 11/09/2009, -2/+23WHAT?
  • lolwatermelon, on 11/09/2009, -0/+19I didn't copy any comment, turns out two people can read and quote from a book.
  • blitzkriegpunk, on 11/09/2009, -0/+19Deploy thumpers at waypoint ...
  • flutezilla, on 11/09/2009, -1/+19this might sound weird, but... its gorgeous
  • RizzosBack, on 11/09/2009, -1/+19He who controls the spice controls the universe.
  • Vindexus, on 11/09/2009, -0/+17This comment brought to you by the letter D!
  • spworm, on 11/09/2009, -0/+17By slowly turning Dune into a lush planet, thereby bringing the worms to extinction so that you have a monopoly of an addictive drug which allows people to live longer, thereby creating a galactic fundamentalist dictatorship which spans millennia with which you hope to teach mankind a lesson it will not forget?
  • CrispixKingdom, on 11/09/2009, -1/+16Beware, Shai'Hulud hungers.
  • lolwatermelon, on 11/09/2009, -0/+15Yeah it's real. There's a channel all about it!
  • imquaid, on 11/09/2009, -0/+15http://api.ning.com/files/hlzTm2vNaRhYQHHwKMvtwjr* ...
  • slabdigger, on 11/09/2009, -0/+14Food nerd.

    actually, that was pretty interesting. Where do I find some larks tongue?
  • iPlunder, on 11/09/2009, -0/+13What DID happen to sand art?
  • anagoge, on 11/09/2009, -1/+13Don't be shocked by the tone of my voice.
  • nuketrap, on 11/09/2009, -1/+12Does anyone else feel like watching Dune? ***** it, i'm watching Dune... Anyone is welcome to watch it with me...
  • MadOgre, on 11/09/2009, -2/+13Is there a relationship between the worms and the spice?
  • thereaintnojust, on 11/09/2009, -1/+12"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."
  • z1pher, on 11/09/2009, -1/+11I put cinnamon in my coffee just to pretend it's spice. My eyes don't turn blue, however.
  • ban1d0, on 11/09/2009, -2/+11And how can this be? For he IS the Kwisatz Haderach!
  • CptBuck, on 11/09/2009, -0/+9My guess is that they're pigments, not spices.
  • HenryKillinger, on 11/09/2009, -0/+8Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang.
  • meandnips, on 11/08/2009, -3/+11aahh chooh!
  • wankelrotary, on 11/09/2009, -2/+10If you walk without rhythm, you'll never learn.
  • km00, on 11/09/2009, -0/+7I'm pretty sure those aren't spices.
    As CptBuck said, very likely they're pigments for the traditional "Holi" holiday. Although that's not to say you probably won't end up eating half that ***** the way it's thrown around on that day.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi
    http://images.google.com/images?q=holi
  • jeremymccurdy, on 11/09/2009, -1/+8If a strong wind blew past those spice pyramids, that guy would really regret getting artsy.
  • spworm, on 11/09/2009, -0/+7Until the Tleilaxu create an artificial variant.
  • wadester2489, on 11/09/2009, -0/+7Well, seeing as Dune sold more copies than The Cat in the Hat and Mein Kampf, I'd say that you just need to sell that timeshare under the rock you've been living in for so many years.
  • Brassbud, on 11/09/2009, -1/+7I totally want to become a black market saffron trader. I mean, I don't know if there is a need for that, but I'm going to do it anyway.
  • kaosethema, on 11/09/2009, -4/+10these comments DO NOT suck.
  • bf01, on 11/09/2009, -0/+5Doesn't that Saffron have a street value of like $10 Million?? Or is "Indian Saffron" different from the saffron sold here in the the U.S.?
  • cyrix, on 11/09/2009, -0/+5Clicking that I eventually made it to the main Dune page. Then all the novels pages, then pages on melange, then pages on worms, then pages on.... Ok look, long story short, here goes another all night wiki bender. God dammit.
  • CaptJackSparrow, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4The second picture is not of spices but of dry color used in the festival of colors called "Holi".

    http://images.google.com/images?q=holi (one instance where Google images will be worth a thousand words in Holi wiki)

  • mechanic69, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4Well.. nobody else liked it.. but I liked your response..
    couldn't have said it better.
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