But isn't all picked fruit dead, even if it's not rotten? I mean, once it's off the tree, what's keeping it alive?

are plucked and harvested fruits of all kinds technically "dead", so even fresh strawberries would be unedible to Chuck? I'm having an icky vision of Ned biting into a burger and getting a mouth of rotting cow meat...

*shudders*

Um, let's not count processed foods and "freshly dead" meats, fruits and veggies into the equation. Gross!

So, does Ned always use rotten fruit, or just sometimes when things go bad? Cuz he's paying for the freshly planted window boxes in his kitchen where he saves on getting possibly free rotten strawberries.

(although I'm pretty sure that with the flame-throwing horsie, these are things we're not supposed to think about. I don't think PD is that show. Still, fun! (and gross))

eta dead fruit x-post!

The notion that Ned won't be able to eat any of his scrumptious-looking pies he make is almost as sad as his not being able to touch Digby and Chuck.

Chuck could just make his pies!

But yeah...

But isn't all picked fruit dead, even if it's not rotten? I mean, once it's off the tree, what's keeping it alive?

This. Bringing a fruit back from rotten implies that it dies sometime after it comes off the tree.

And by that theory, what does he eat? I could foresee meat being a problem, if everything that was ever dead ever comes back to life when he touches it.

eta: Juliebird! Weird meat x-post!

I'm thinking Ned's meals are all heavily seasoned with handwavium.

I think the point is if he makes his pies with the revivified fruit, it will never go bad.

I thought they said in the first episode that his touch made the fruit taste just picked. I wonder if he could eat his own pies with a fork or if the fruit would immediately turn bad in his mouth.

I rewatched "Girth" and "Pigeon" last night, and had a total LOL moment when I realized that the wooden hand/arm that Ned uses this week to scratch Digby is the arm he ripped off of Lefty last week! Bwah - missed that connection the first time through.

I'm loving this show. So fun.

I'm figuring that once the meat's been cut into pieces and processed, it's gonna be difficult for Ned to bring it back to life. I mean, a piece of steak won't turn into a whole cow at his mouth when he chews it, I don't think.

On the other hand, he probably won't be able to eat a... cricket, or something. Or maybe he can. Second chew kills it forever, etc.

I am having wee bit more difficulties handwaving this than the horse shooting flames from its mouth or an one-legged girl living inside a windmill, however.

As far as eating fruit he hasn't touched before, as long as he swallows it within a minute of touching it he should be okay. However any nearby fruit trees should certainly worry.

I wonder if there's a circle around the pie shop in which fruit immediately rots.