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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

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Post by NineStarPoint »

EForEndeavour wrote: post #82
jdofaz wrote: post #77

Dr. 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

Humor aside: oven-roasted or pan-seared broccoli with garlic, salt, and butter tastes amazing! And depending on how much salt and butter you add, is probably way safer to eat than black liquorice.

I don’t really buy that it makes that much of a difference. As a child I hated all forms of broccoli, could barely stomach it. Now that I’ve grown older I find even the plain steamed stuff edible. While I certainly like it prepped like you described, it still in the end has the taste of broccoli in it. I have a hard time imagining someone who hates the vegetable caring about how it was prepared.

Re: Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day

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Post by irrational »

> A few weeks before his death, he switched from red fruit-flavoured twists to another type made with black liquorice... Further investigation revealed a recent change to a liquorice-containing candy as the likely cause of his hypokalemia.

I don't like black licorice, but I love red licorice. I too blame his change from red to black licorice.

Re: Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day

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Post by asxd »

ponker wrote: post #110
dang wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This comment and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24581592 are obviously not cool. If you keep posting flamewar comments we're going to have to ban you again. I don't want to do that, so can you please fix this? Did you not see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23255339 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23469154 ?

What is your claim here? That Americans do not consume in absurd quantities as a way of life? Meat, sugar, oil, land, etc.? Is this even a matter of serious debate?

You get to choose the things you say, and although many might agree your statement has some truth to it, I don't see how it adds any substance to the conversation.

Re: Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day

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Post by kenned3 »

smoyer wrote: post #15
boomlinde wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Poisonous like water, table salt and other substances that are lethal in excess and benign or even essential in moderation.

> Poisonous like water http://dhmo.org/

No, Poisonous like water : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

if you drink enough of it too quickly, it will overload your kidneys and kill you.

Re: Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day

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Post by dang »

ponker wrote: post #110
dang wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This comment and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24581592 are obviously not cool. If you keep posting flamewar comments we're going to have to ban you again. I don't want to do that, so can you please fix this? Did you not see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23255339 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23469154 ?

What is your claim here? That Americans do not consume in absurd quantities as a way of life? Meat, sugar, oil, land, etc.? Is this even a matter of serious debate?

My claim is that you have been trolling HN with nationalistic flamebait ("Wanton excess as a way of life is culturally American") and we need you to stop.

Re: Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day

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Post by thrownaway954 »

"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.

He had suffered no symptoms before suddenly going into cardiac arrest in a fast food restaurant.

i think more than liquorice is blame for this dudes death

Re: Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day

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Post by brundolf »

kempbellt wrote: post #14
mikecoles wrote: post #2

I did some looking into what made black licorice taste so good and to see if enjoying it was genetic. I was surprised to find out it can be toxic. All of these years my grandfather and I have been poisoning each other. Guess we should celebrate we survived it with a pint of sarsaparilla.

> what made black licorice taste so good It's amazing that people can have such different tastes. I absolutely hate the taste of black licorice. Though the act of poisoning yourself and others for fun is an extremely normalized behavior, and has been for thousands of years. We just call it drinking (alcohol).

Liquorice is one of those things like cilantro that's highly polarizing. You either love it or you deeply, passionately despise it. I too would tend to assume there's a genetic component, though I don't know.

It does make for a convenient economy of people who will eat the black jellybeans from others' bags :)

Re: Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day

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Post by irrational »

Someone wrote: post #66
kempbellt wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> what made black licorice taste so good It's amazing that people can have such different tastes. I absolutely hate the taste of black licorice. Though the act of poisoning yourself and others for fun is an extremely normalized behavior, and has been for thousands of years. We just call it drinking (alcohol).

“I absolutely hate the taste of black licorice.“ Liquorice is an acquired taste ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquired_taste ). You have to learn to like it.

I wonder if it is like cilantro. It tastes like soap to me, but my wife loves it. Apparently there is a physiological reason for that. Maybe it is similar with black licorice.

Re: Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day

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Post by MisterBastahrd »

djxfade wrote: post #116
icedistilled wrote: post #84

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Ah Then purpose of the salty licorice with ammonium chloride must be to prevent people from consuming too much in one sitting. Usually I can only make it 2/3rd through a single piece before the ammonia flavor is too over powering.

It's so strange to me as a Scandinavian to read this. We love that stuff

Can't imagine why someone from the land of fermented shark flesh would like the flavor of ammonia.
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