There are certain requirements for herbivores, particularly when it comes to kitchen appliances. A few items wind up being used just about every day and in this case, the ancient piece was used until it broke. All Applejack has to do is find a suitable replacement for the old salad spinner. Something just about anypony should be able to manage with virtually no trouble at all.
Of course, the Bearers aren't just anypony...
The story may be found here
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Tropes found in this story include:
- Elemental Baggage: The wonder that pegasi use to dry their salad leaves cannot actually destroy the water, instead redistributing it all over the kitchen. In a pegasus house, this would reinforce the cloud walls. In an earth pony kitchen, it just gets everything sopping wet.
- Luring in Prey: One of the dangerous plants mentioned in the story is the root angler, which keeps all its body except a food shaped tentacle below the ground, waiting for somepony hungry to wander along.
- Man-Eating Plant: Applejack gives several examples of the dangerous magical plants indigenous to Equestria in her opening monologue, noting that "a host of botanical horrors which had learned that the best way to gain the nutrients which came from decomposition was to create their own supply..."
