Kale surprise:

Like two or three weeks ago, I was eating through my bundle of kale from the supermarket like I usually do -- I keep it on the top shelf of my fridge, and like every day or two I take out a few leaves and wash them and cut them up and add in raw onion and maybe sauerkraut and then sauerkraut juice or oil and vinegar, to eat as a salad, kale is so wonderful, it just keeps in the fridge forever and it's so firm and flavorful and full of vitamins -- but one leaf I pulled out was broken and a little mashed up towards the center of the stem, with a burr of mold growing around it, which was odd, since kale can get dehydrated and nasty if you keep it a bit too long, it happens from time to time, but that kind of mold was a new one.

So, I cut it out, cutting generously around the mold, and then put the rest of the leaf in my salad.

 But, like for the next few days, I pulled out multiple stems exactly like that, that were broken and a little mashed up towards the center of the stem, with a burr of mold growing around it, which was certainly more than I expected to find, somehow I had thought that that first stem was just a one-time thing.

As best as I can figure, somehow those stems must have been crushed before or during the bundling of the kale for sale, and that compromise of the vegetable's integrity gradually led to mold growing there, in the bundle of kale on the top shelf of my refrigerator.