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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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).
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 : )
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 ;)