The lettuce has got liquid smoke infused into it.

So the chips are candied, the ground beef is made from chocolate, and the cheese is made from a shredded mango sorbet that gets shredded into liquid nitrogen to look like cheese.

Lettuce production methods, including all of the processes from growing to sales, have become much larger in scale during the 20th century.

In the first years of the 21st century, bagged salad products began to hold a growing portion of the lettuce market, especially in the US.

This is a dish called crispy shredded beef, which has a lot of crisp, a lot of shred, and not a lot of beef.

Somehow buying a local lettuce, changing a light bulb, driving the speed limit, changing your tires regularly, doesn't seem sufficient in the face of climate crisis.

And what looks like two big heaps of leaves, is actually two single leaves that get shredded up by the harsh desert conditions over time.

As of 2007, 70 percent of the lettuce production in the US came from California in that country it ranks third in produce consumption behind tomatoes and oranges.

A third of the people we passed it to, they shredded it, they came to us and said, Mr. Experimenter, I solved X problems. Give me X dollars.

And so in some sense they literally, they had such a symbolic view of mathematics, they couldn't actually see what was going on on the lettuce in front of them.

This disaster requires a continued commitment for the long term rehabilitation and reconstruction of the social and economic fabric that has been shredded in all the countries affected by the tsunami.

Vik Muniz makes art from pretty much anything, be it shredded paper, wire, clouds or diamonds. Here he describes the thinking behind his work and takes us on a tour of his incredible images.

He picks up a spoon, picks it up, scoops out some Shredded Wheat and milk, holds the spoon level as he translates it, moving all these joints simultaneously, to his mouth, and he doesn't drop any milk.

This translates into a higher proportion of plastics in the remnants of shredded end of life automobiles a contaminated mixture of plastics and non plastics that is usually disposed of through some combination of landfilling, incineration, and secondary recycling.

Even mathematicians, who in some sense are the freest of all thinkers, literally couldn't see not only the sea slugs around them, but the lettuce on their plate because lettuces, and all those curly vegetables, they also are embodiments of hyperbolic geometry.

Moreover, even amid the shock and grief fueled by images of the bombing and the many victims with shattered, shredded limbs, Americans found at least a little bandwidth to comprehend that bombs are still a feature of daily life in Iraq and Syria.

It's like the front door of the office is like a Cuisinart, and you walk in and your day is shredded to bits, because you have 15 minutes here and 30 minutes there, and then something else happens and you're pulled off your work, and you've got to do something else, then you have 20 minutes, then it's lunch.

There was an egg, a tomato, a head of lettuce and a pumpkin, and they all lived in this refrigerator city, and in one of their adventures they went to a haunted house that was filled with so many dangers like an evil blender who tried to chop them up, an evil toaster who tried to kidnap the bread couple, and an evil microwave who tried to melt their friend who was a stick of butter.