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I don't think it's the licorice that will kill you if you smoke 50 packs a day.
That would be a cigarette every 1.4 minutes, for the entire 24 hours, by the way :)
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Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day
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Re: Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
That would be a cigarette every 1.4 minutes, for the entire 24 hours, by the way :)
50 packs a month may be what they meant (about the average for chain smokers at more than 1 pack per day.) Or they did imply hyperbole.
Almost certainly hyperbole, but imagining 50 packs a day made me run the numbers for a laugh.
Re: Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day
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Yep, I worked at a golf course in groundskeeping for a summer after HS. The diet of the "old timers" was absolutely ridiculous. The worst, Jim, his lunch every day was literally a can of Coca-Cola and a can of Vienna Sausages (shitty canned tiny hot dogs for those that don't know). God knows what he ate before/after work. He had a heart attack one day at work. Was only in his early 50s.
An old timer in his early 50s?
Why not. Groundskeeper (manual labor) at 50, when you could presumably start that job at 16. At 16, anything over 40 (visible signs of aging) is an ol’timer
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#74> "We are told that this patient has a poor diet and eats a lot of candy. Could his illness be related to candy consumption?" Dr Elazer R Edelman said. > The patient had also recently changed the type of sweets he was eating. A few weeks before his death, he switched from red fruit-flavoured twists to another type made with black liquorice. It sounds like this person was already on an EXTREMELY bad diet. I have perso…
Yep, I worked at a golf course in groundskeeping for a summer after HS. The diet of the "old timers" was absolutely ridiculous. The worst, Jim, his lunch every day was literally a can of Coca-Cola and a can of Vienna Sausages (shitty canned tiny hot dogs for those that don't know). God knows what he ate before/after work. He had a heart attack one day at work. Was only in his early 50s.
What became of Jim, do you know?
Re: Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, I worked at a golf course in groundskeeping for a summer after HS. The diet of the "old timers" was absolutely ridiculous. The worst, Jim, his lunch every day was literally a can of Coca-Cola and a can of Vienna Sausages (shitty canned tiny hot dogs for those that don't know). God knows what he ate before/after work. He had a heart attack one day at work. Was only in his early 50s.
An old timer in his early 50s?
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Re: Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day
#76And here in South America I think I have never tried liquorice even once. That and root beer. I don't know if I will like the taste, I just want to know it. EDIT: Why the downvotes? If could buy that stuff I would have!
Root beer is a fun and popular flavor, some people like it more than others.
Black liquorice is a bombardment of a very strange flavor. It's a mix bitter, medicinal, sickly sweet, no idea how to describe it.
Check this reaction video out, it gets funny around 6:20: https://youtu.be/yHetC2G-xVo
Re: Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day
#77Dr. Hibbert: Another broccoli-related death.
Marge: But I thought broccoli was—
Dr. Hibbert: Oh yes. One of the deadliest plants on Earth. Why, it tries to warn you itself with its terrible taste.
I feel the same about Liquorice
Re: Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day
#78Strong black licorice, "lakrids," abounds in Denmark. My brother visited me when I was living there and ate a pound or so of little, tobacco-pipe shaped licorice in an afternoon. He got profoundly ill with a racing heartbeat, lightheaded, dizzy and nauseous. I almost took him to the hospital but he refused. It took a couple of days before he felt good enough to get out of the apartment. Sometime after, I mentioned th…
You'd think the package would have a warning on it?
Re: Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day
#79Another similar one is chocolate poisoning. Humans can handle 3 times more chocolate per KG of body mass than dogs so the risk is much smaller to us but we're still susceptible at the extremes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobromine_poisoning
I eat more than my fair share of dark chocolate, so I took a look at that. The toxic levels are _a lot_ of chocolate, and I can't even imagine consuming anywhere near the lethal levels.
That said, I think the black licorice case here also falls into the "levels I can't even imagine" category.
Re: Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day
#80Strong black licorice, "lakrids," abounds in Denmark. My brother visited me when I was living there and ate a pound or so of little, tobacco-pipe shaped licorice in an afternoon. He got profoundly ill with a racing heartbeat, lightheaded, dizzy and nauseous. I almost took him to the hospital but he refused. It took a couple of days before he felt good enough to get out of the apartment. Sometime after, I mentioned th…
You'd think the package would have a warning on it?
It usually is sold loose, by the gram, in DK.