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CHIVES ON TRIAL
A patient Reddit ritual unfolds as a poster trims chives daily for 46 days, posting a video for judgments on perfection and whether the harvest earns Michelin level status.
Perfect chives or keep trimming?
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Day 46 arrived with the chives still not declared perfect.
Somewhere in the long-running Reddit ritual, the poster returned with the same tiny project: "Cutting a couple of chives almost every day until this reddit says there perfect." After 46 days of snipping, the question was still open. Were they there yet? The poster didn't seem ready to stop.
The update was short and blunt. No backstory, no explanation, just the ongoing march of the scissors. The chives had become the whole bit, trimmed, checked, posted, repeated. And this time, the poster brought the challenge straight to the comments: "Are these Michelin star worthy chefs!"
That was the new question, pinned to the day's harvest. Not just whether the chives were good, but whether they had crossed into restaurant-level territory. The post didn't say what had changed since the earlier days, or what the subreddit had already decided. It simply dropped in on Day 46 and asked for judgment again.
Along with the update came a "Todays Video," linked for anyone who wanted to inspect the latest cut for themselves. The post offered no further details beyond the clip and the plea for a verdict. The entire story, at least as written that day, was a tiny ongoing experiment in patience: a few chives, almost every day, and a poster waiting for the internet to finally say they were perfect.