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Anonymous asked: Your anti-nausea food is a BLT?? I love it but that’s chaotic. When I think of anti-nausea food I think of, like, honey tea. Hot milk. White rice. Hearing someone say their anti-nausea food is a BLT is like hearing someone say that they unwind after a stressful day by breaking into their neighbour’s house and rearranging the cutlery.

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tototavros:

if it’s really important I’ll put bean sprouts or maybe an egg on it but i also think that prairie oysters are a good idea but a little much for the modern age whereas many people tend towards revulsion

if i’m nauseous i’m probably already drinking lots of water and gatorade so honey tea is just adding more liquids to already too much liquid, i’m confused and mildly turned off of milk[1] tho hot milk is the best way and i would *love* to be able to have serving size heavy cream for warming some of that up, and rice reminds me of descriptions of large znttbgf (rot13’d because I don’t like looking at the word)

blt is simple, if i don’t feel like grain, i just eat the rest like a salad (easy on the gut) or i might take off some tomato (too acidic); bacon and bread are easy on me, mayo only as long as i don’t make the sandwich myself (weird but w/e)

[1]: i had frozen milk for my school milk too many times in a row, then one day i was desperate for cereal, only to find that the milk at home had frozen. I rarely drank milk after that (occasionally if i overshoot on spice but that’s hard to do, i’m not averse to lattes but prefer warm to hot milk and as creamy as they can get).

I’m pretty much with anon here: I did not know how much variation there was in anti-nausea foods, and it’s fascinating.

Bacon is one of the *worst* things for me to eat if I’m already not feeling well: greasy foods give me stomachaches. I don’t use honey tea or hot milk, but I can kind of see those (in theory I can also see white rice, but yeah I do sometimes struggle with the appearance).

I like mint for acute anti-nausea. (Usually just peppermint oil on a cotton ball for the smell, but occasionally edible mint.) For longer-term “halfway through a 300-hour stomach bug and trying to get some calories into me”, [popcorn popped in moderate amounts of canola oil] and to a lesser extent graham crackers.

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aeruh:

Rosemary? You mean spicy pine needles?

 

malus-syl-vestris:

Are you insinuating that regular pine needles aren’t spicy???

 

aeruh:

Regular pine needles are regular

 

malus-syl-vestris:

Not by rosemary standards

 

aeruh:

…Have you eaten pine needles?

 

malus-syl-vestris:

We’ve been friends for like four years, do you seriously have to ask if I’ve eaten pine needles or not

 

aeruh:

I mean I’m pretty sure you have but I don’t want to assume

 

malus-syl-vestris:

Of course I’ve eaten pine needles. Various kinds. Singleleaf pinyon is weirdly the best

 

aeruh:

Are they…

{{in cursive font:}} spicy?

 

malus-syl-vestris:

You know, I’d love to tell you but I’m pretty unclear about what marks the difference between “spice” and “strong-tasting plant that isn’t considered a spice”

 

aeruh:

I’ll have to eat some pine needles myself then to find out

 

malus-syl-vestris:

Ok but it only counts if they’re PINE needles and not just any old needle-like leaf off a tree

 

aeruh:

I’m going to eat every needle-like leaf I see

 

malus-syl-vestris:

Please Don’t Do That

 

aeruh:

Needle-Like Leaf Roulette

 

malus-syl-vestris:

…I’ll accept this plan as long as you promise not to eat any yew leaves.

 

aeruh:

I can try very hard not to

 

malus-syl-vestris:

Pine needles are distinguished by the presence of a sheath-like structure at the base of the leaf, almost always holding bundles of two or more leaves. Yews don’t have the sheath thing

 

aeruh:

It’s time for me to go out into the woods and stare at needle leaves

 

malus-syl-vestris:

Finally you can gain real insight into my average daily life

 

silverjirachi:

this conversation reads like two shakespeare characters who come out in the middle of the play to talk about something completely unrelated for comic relief and then are never heard from again

 

mortimermcmirestinks:

god fucking dammit gimme a minute

 

mortimermcmirestinks:

Enter AERUH and MALUS SYL-VESTRIS, a pair of JESTERS.

AERUH
I tell thee, rosemary is like a pine
but with a spicy taste.

MALUS
                        Art thou to claim
that needles base of pine have not a spice?

AERUH
A needle base of pine is merely base.

MALUS
‘Tis not when held, comparing, to anthos.

AERUH
My dearest Malus, needles thou’st eaten?

MALUS
How many moons have we as friends seen rise?
How many suns have we as friends seen set?
Thou sixteen seasons in my heart I’ve held,
and hope that I in thine hast been the same.
With brotherhood as rich and old as this,
thou needst not ask me such frivolities.

AERUH
I know thou likely has, to tell the truth,
but I would not assume.

MALUS
                      Well, yes, I have.
A multitude of types I’ve eaten too.
I’ll tell thee now: the best (though it is strange)
is single-leaf pinyon.

AERUH
                    And it has spice?

MALUS
I truly wish that I could tell thee this,
but now, i’faith, I cannot fully tell,
the difference in classifying thus:
to say “has spice” or merely “herbal strength”.

AERUH
To tell this tale most clearly it would seem
that eating needles from a pine’s required.

MALUS
Aye, it would seem that that’s the task at hand,
but caution tells that this is what’s to do:
eat only needles of the honest pine,
and none of lying leaf with pinelike shape.

AERUH
I’ll eat them all.

MALUS
                  I prithee, stay thyself.

AERUH
Roulette with leaves.

MALUS
                    At least restrain from yew.

AERUH
I’ll do my best.

MALUS
               That is all can we do.
The scholars tell that needles true of pine
can be distinguished from the lying yew
by sheathlike clothing all along the base;
the yew has no such guard.

AERUH
                         With this new truth
I now will venture out into the wood
and seek the pines and pinelike fakes alike
to stare them down and learn their secret truths.

MALUS
With this thou canst at long and weary last
Discover for thyself my life’s own path.

Exeunt.

Enter MACDUFF.

MACDUFF.
Yo dudes that king there’s dead. Like dead as FUCK.

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transgenderer:

Concept: saying grace, but instead of thanking God, you thank industrial agriculture (or the millions of people who contributed to its development and maintenance, or perhaps the first person to take each step, the first planter, the first plower, etc)

 

binary-bluejay:

Saying thanks to Fritz Haber and caveating “This would be much more enthusiastic if you hadn’t been enthusiastically responsible for war crimes but you’ve so far still probably been a net good”

 

oscillatingheatpipe:

The Rationalist Seder version of the Dayenu song kinda does this:

Had we severed law from vengeance,
but not learned to bake and slice bread,
but not learned to bake and slice bread, Dayenu!
Had we learned to bake and slice bread,
but not mapped out all Earth’s surface,
but not mapped out all Earth’s surface, Lo Dayenu!
Had we mapped out all Earth’s surface,
but not crafted printing presses,
but not crafted printing presses, Dayenu!
Had we crafted printing presses,
but not named the rights of humans,
but not named the rights of humans, Lo Dayenu!

Etc.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pAoJfDMxvriivzcF2/rationalist-seder-dayenu-lo-dayenu

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discoursedrome:

A brief but strange wiki jaunt today: I was wondering about the etymology of “mammoth”, so I looked it up and it’s from Russian and believed to derive from a Uralic language, which is wild! But the wiktionary etymology also offers this tantalizing aside: “Adjectival use was popularized in the early 1800s by references to the Cheshire Mammoth Cheese presented to American paleontologist and president Thomas Jefferson.”

Wait, what? So I had to look that up and it’s, I guess, a giant wheel of cheese that was produced by the town of Cheshire, Massachusetts, by combining the milk of every cow in the town, as a kind of weird political stunt. According to Wikipedia, it was inscribed with the motto “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.“ The article goes on to say:

Given the political landscape of the time, there was a fear that the more Republican Jefferson, considered an “infidel of the French Revolutionary school,” would harm the religious interests of the citizenry, and that “the altars of New England would be demolished, and all their religious institutions would be swept away by an inrushing and irresistible flood of French infidelity.”

One pastor in Cheshire, Elder John Leland, opposed this line of thought. A beleaguered minority in Calvinist New England, the Baptists were perhaps the strongest advocates in the early republic of the separation of church and state. Leland had met Jefferson during his time in Virginia and the two grew to have a friendly relationship. Leland remembered this as he served in Cheshire, and campaigned strongly for Jefferson.

Leland, believing that his efforts helped Jefferson win the Presidency, encouraged his townspeople to make a unique gesture to Jefferson. He urged each member of his congregation “who owned a cow to bring every quart of milk given on a given day, or all the curd it would make, to a great cider mill…” Leland also insisted that “no Federal cow” (a cow owned by a Federalist farmer) be allowed to offer any milk, “lest it should leaven the whole lump with a distasteful savour.”

The last part may require the clarification that the Federalists were one of the two viable parties at the time, the other being Jefferson’s “Democratic-Republican” party; this is not to be confused with the current system where the two parties are Democratic and Republican and both are federalist.

In any case, I appreciated the sheer Americanness of the anecdote. It feels very much like a story someone would invent to make fun of American history, so it is extremely gratifying that it actually happened.

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openamenta:

@sojournthemoon

The most popularly mentioned symptom of hypersensitivity is thinking or feeling that things are polluted when they aren’t.  But it’s not the only one.  Many hypersensitives also have “obstructed melioration”, where – especially if something is actually polluted or actually has something on it – they are so paralyzed by their feelings of disgust that they can’t take actions to clean.

You can be diagnosed with some forms of hypersensitivity even if you never make a mistake on a test of pollution identification.  If you can’t touch the dishes so you can’t wash the dishes; if you can’t stand the smell of dust so you never jack up the couch to sweep it up; if something spilled in your fridge last month and you haven’t been able to open it since then even though it was only ketchup at the time, so now it’s a mold ecosystem you’d need to go after with bleach?  If you have a meltdown every time you visit the bathroom and spend two hours sitting there panicking and procrastinating on cleaning up because that would mean thinking about it?  If you can’t wash your hands because you’d notice the slightly less clean water rinsing off them?  If you haven’t shampooed in six weeks because whenever you wash your hair it accumulates in the drain catch and then you’d have to pick it out?  If you have any trouble explaining what needs doing to a professional cleaner because the words taste bad?  Then you’re (insofar as you can be diagnosed online) hypersensitive.

If something is so gross that you can’t clean it – not because there aren’t enough gloves and masks and chemicals, just because you can’t stand to think about it that hard, engage with the existence of a mess that needs to be cleaned up – then that’s hypersensitivity, and it’s a disability.

Anyway, how do you all feel about cleaning reds?

#unreality cw? #yet also‚ at the same time‚ very true #I think about this post every fucking time I flinch away from cleaning my fridge #(today’s reblog brought to you by my brother finally throwing out the ~month-old corn that was‚ in his words‚ “no longer yellow”) #(I soaked the bowl with lots of soap for a day or so and managed to clean it after that) #(…now I just need to clean the *other* moldy food container‚ currently sitting beside the sink with its lid on) #(……maybe I will wash the other dishes first)

Update:

About twelve days later, my brother came home with a takeout container from his workplace. He mentioned he was planning to recycle it once he was done with it, because “we already have enough containers”.

I proposed that we instead recycle the moldy one and wash the new one, and everyone with a stake in the matter agreed. (That is to say, I did not bother to ask Dad because I knew he wouldn’t care.)

All’s well that ends well.

(In my defence, I’ve been covering a *lot* of shifts at work the past few weeks (especially those couple weeks), and had a lot less time and skin-HP [link] for dishwashing than usual. At no point during those twelve days was I caught up on all other dishes.)

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jadagul:

memewhore:

Now I want a wine gun.

Fill a squeeze bottle with wine?

Hell, if you want to go further you probably *could* put wine in a water gun. Would probably be harder to get and keep that food-safe, though.

—

(Lacking the context of this post, if I heard someone refer to a “garlic thumper” I would just assume it was a more humourous synonym of “garlic press”.)

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How to peel a peach in 10 seconds! Easiest Method!

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rustingbridges:

first, put it in your large pot of boiling water…

 

rustingbridges:

anyway I’m coming around to the conclusion that peaches are one of those fruits not worth smoothieing. if ya gotta peel it that’s too hard.

however I gotta eat like twelve pounds of fruit in the next week. that’s a lot of fruit. at least some of that is going to need to be blended with ice cream so I can pipe it straight into my body

 

brin-bellway:

The secret to peeling peaches is to buy nectarines and eat them with the skin on.

The *other* secret to peeling peaches is to buy canned peaches.

 

rustingbridges:

I don’t mind eating peach skin. that’s fine. I hardly peel anything before I eat it. but I’m not sure I want it as a smoothie texture

 

brin-bellway:

There’s still the canned peaches, though.

 

rustingbridges:

tbh I think the last thing I need to do right now is buy more peaches. that seems like the opposite of progress towards eating all of these peaches that I already have

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How to peel a peach in 10 seconds! Easiest Method!

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rustingbridges:

brin-bellway:

rustingbridges:

rustingbridges:

first, put it in your large pot of boiling water…

anyway I’m coming around to the conclusion that peaches are one of those fruits not worth smoothieing. if ya gotta peel it that’s too hard.

however I gotta eat like twelve pounds of fruit in the next week. that’s a lot of fruit. at least some of that is going to need to be blended with ice cream so I can pipe it straight into my body

The secret to peeling peaches is to buy nectarines and eat them with the skin on.

The *other* secret to peeling peaches is to buy canned peaches.

I don’t mind eating peach skin. that’s fine. I hardly peel anything before I eat it. but I’m not sure I want it as a smoothie texture

There’s still the canned peaches, though.

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How to peel a peach in 10 seconds! Easiest Method!

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rustingbridges:

rustingbridges:

first, put it in your large pot of boiling water…

anyway I’m coming around to the conclusion that peaches are one of those fruits not worth smoothieing. if ya gotta peel it that’s too hard.

however I gotta eat like twelve pounds of fruit in the next week. that’s a lot of fruit. at least some of that is going to need to be blended with ice cream so I can pipe it straight into my body

The secret to peeling peaches is to buy nectarines and eat them with the skin on.

The *other* secret to peeling peaches is to buy canned peaches.

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#why yes these are the only two kinds of peaches I eat #food #recs #reply via reblog

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