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Ginger - the most useless drop from a harvest?

Why? Why one Ginger spice? It takes up one slot all for it's lonesome in my inventory (I don't carry a spice rack). 

Posted 11 months ago by ~Arabesque~ Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Ginger in a necessary ingredient for sweet and sour sauce, which is used in several high-end recipes. Chefs who carry a spice rack don't complain about free spice, but for other players it will fill up space.
    Posted 11 months ago by Zen Biped Subscriber! | Permalink
  • yeah Zen but 1 spice? one?? what is the point? I don't think anyone would go out specifically to make an entire recipe because they got 1 free ginger from a drop :? It just hit me whilst I was harvesting trees and the ginger popped into my bag.  As luck would have it a piggy feeder was nearby so dropped it in.
    Posted 11 months ago by ~Arabesque~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Eat it?
    Posted 11 months ago by OMG BACON!! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ..but it's not bacon.....
    Posted 11 months ago by ~Arabesque~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It's useless to me, because I don't cook (in fact I refuse to because it bores me to tears), but for cooks it might be useful. I usually eat it as soon as I get it just to get it outta my bag.
    Posted 11 months ago by Djabriil Subscriber! | Permalink
  • aw lol
    Posted 11 months ago by Polly Nomial Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You can also drop it in the nearest piggy feeder.
    Posted 11 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • There's probably a hidden badge for 1009 ginger drops.
    Posted 11 months ago by Pii Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It's edible.  Eat it.  It will then be gone.  You will have very slightly more energy.  It only takes a mouse click.  

    I have the same problem when the game wheel spits out a bean.  I don't need that (I don't cook or season beans.)   I eat it.  Then it's gone.
    Posted 11 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mix it with water from the lizardous bureaucrats and you will get refreshing ginger water.

    Just kidding.
    Posted 11 months ago by rosedragon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Def the most useless.

    Although Fertilidust Lite has a case...
    Posted 11 months ago by Rosty Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Nah Rosty, at least you can use the FDL to regrow harvested wood trees.
    Posted 11 months ago by Aurora Dellaterra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • nah.

    well, maybe.

    you can eat ginger, but i tell you i never get enough drops for a recipe and i nearly always forget when making a batch of something that i already have JUST ONE GINGER so i was thinking fertilidust is definitely the most useless, but it can be sold for a handful of currants, which brings me to maybe a more useless (although not annoying) drop: the five currant bonus.

    even stupid fertilidust is worth more than that, even if you have to schlepp it over to a vendor to be rid of it.
    Posted 11 months ago by flask Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Sesame oil. Def the most useless. I mean, there's like ONE solitary recipe in the whole game that uses that. 
    Posted 11 months ago by KitkatCat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I decided to stockpile sesame oil a week ago just to see how many i would get. You usually get 3 at a time. With no plan, I wound up with 28. So I sold them to a vendor. You can't gift them to anyone - they're like curse. And they're useless as donations. Nobody wants to "find them behind a tree. Maybe they should develop a ginger & sesame oil recipe with lots of energy. If you open a store, I'd stay away from calling it "GINGER'S" or "OPEN SESAME".
    Posted 11 months ago by Patricia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • " You can't gift them to anyone"- kinda like Mild Sauce, huh? lol
    Posted 11 months ago by Djabriil Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Right up there with socks & underwear for Xmas :}
    Posted 11 months ago by Patricia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well when we get a cruise ship for a group of us like the sky deal some will have to eat it for sea sickness lol
    Posted 11 months ago by Jellybelly Baby Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I do cook and have no use for a single ginger. (My spice rack is generally full of Allspice and I grind spices as needed for recipes, usually in large batches.)

    Same with the Sesame oils, I just pile them up and eat them in batches if I run low on energy. (And the same for the other food items that pop out of gardening plots in onesies.)

    Getting something decent but infrequent like a Ruby or Fuel Cell is much better than getting something useless frequently. It just means you have to sort through your bags to get rid of junk constantly.
    Posted 11 months ago by Janitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Fertidust definitely isn't useless, though it might be of less use to those who don't gather a lot of wood. To us wood gatherers, though, it's absolutely invaluable.

    But overall the low-value food items're probably most useless since very few people have use for them (and I'd add to this maple syrup from trees).
    Posted 11 months ago by Kaja Rainbow Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Save it up and eventually donate it. Every little bit counts.
    Posted 11 months ago by Maxy Cat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Meh, any drop is OK by me. If I don't want it I donate it so still  get a benefit.

    But ginger goes into Sweet&SourSauce which goes into Tangy Sauce which in turn goes into essence of purple. A good party give away.

    It also goes into Gurly Drinks.
    Posted 11 months ago by IrenicRhonda Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I always have more sesame oil than I know what to do with, and I *do* cook.

    I usually throw them in a shrine. Doesn't really help, but it makes me feel better to be rid of them.
    Posted 11 months ago by Aliera Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Sesame I do use, when I've gotten a few hundred from drops I make a large batch of fried rice to donate - I always appreciate finding those when street roaming : )
    Posted 11 months ago by ~Arabesque~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, for stuff you just don't want, just drop it.  somebody will pick it up soon enough.  
    Posted 11 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • There are some "take-some leave-some" piles around and little stuff like ginger that you don't want might be perfect for someone else :)
    Posted 11 months ago by diaveborn ♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Batterflys eat it
    Posted 11 months ago by Gruff McGruff Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I started saving all those drops when I reached level 60 the first time. Believe me, all those bags with 'good for nothing' drops sure helped getting to 60 this time ;)

    ETA; also all food I got from the AL.
    I have a cabinet for it now, 3 to be precise, they're in my kitchen. One (32) with all the food, two (wall) with bags. Every time I have a new stack it goes into a bag. It'll be useful again some day, I hope ;)
    Posted 11 months ago by WeavingTheWeb Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The most useless, no make that infuriating drop is 2 paper from a dust trap. I would ban that, yes I would.
    Posted 11 months ago by Verge Venus Subscriber! | Permalink