Bag Poser

[Birchy]

Why - in supermarkets - are plastic bags provided for all loose fruit and veg, except mushrooms where we are encouraged to use the paper variety? Are mushrooms the only chaps who can't fight their way out of them?

[incitatus]

Most fruit and veg have cellulose cell walls, and so lose water at a slow rate. This means that inside a plastic bag they will not sweat too much and go bad. Mushrooms have a different cell structure, and lose large quantities of water when in plastic bags. This makes the bag humid, the mushroom rots, or starts to spread mycelae.

[Birchy]

Should I go into Body & Soul to ask Incy "What is the meaning of life?"? I just know he'll know it.....and if you think that's sexist, it's not.

[incitatus]

42, isn't it?

[Birchy]

.....and human too! But shouldn't my question have appeared in Body & Soul, with Incy's answer to it appearing in Art & Lit? Or would that be all too confusing....answers in Sport???

[incitatus]

Mr Adams and I go way back. Though of course that was the answer to the Great Question, not the meaning of life....what makes you think life HAS a meaning?