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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 akiselev »

disown wrote: post #225
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

> I feel the same about Liquorice I was starting to get worried that I was the only one. There should be laws prohibiting the placement of the word candy anywhere near the word liquorice. It's the worst form of false advertisement I've come across. Candy is supposed to taste good! That childhood trauma is still with me to this day. I feel disgust and anger at the mention of liquorice.

That every bag of jelly beans includes liquorice is really a travesty.

It's the culinary equivalent of bleach and ammonia Tide pods.

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

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Post by moksly »

Wistar wrote: post #70

Strong 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…

What? I’m Danish and I’ve eaten 45 of those (lakridspiber), and felt nothing but shame.

Were they the yellow or pink ones?

I generally don’t eat a lot of candy, but maybe once a year in a while I’ll eat quite a lot of whatever crave springs up. Sometimes that is lakrids. Maybe I should be more careful?

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

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Post by gerbler »

briandear wrote: post #292
geitir wrote: post #276

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Modern hookah is soaked in glycerin which produces the majority of the vapor, while the tobacco is ideally vaporized instead of combusted as well (although usually it's a combination of burning and vaporization). So if done properly arguably better than a cig. The real issue with hookah is the chemicals and co2 released from the coals imo.

The CO2? What’s the issue with that? CO2 isn’t a toxin.

I believe the risk is from carbon monoxide (CO) due to incomplete combustion.

Not sure what the best summary of this topic is but here's a paper that provides an example: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ccr3.2173

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

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Post by wingerlang »

moksly wrote: post #302
Wistar wrote: post #70

Strong 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…

What? I’m Danish and I’ve eaten 45 of those (lakridspiber), and felt nothing but shame. Were they the yellow or pink ones? I generally don’t eat a lot of candy, but maybe once a year in a while I’ll eat quite a lot of whatever crave springs up. Sometimes that is lakrids. Maybe I should be more careful?

Yeah it’s odd, one pack is usually 16-20 and one pack is around a pound if my calculations aren’t way off. One packs is nearing the limit for a session but I can’t ever remember having any headaches or anything from them.

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom »

verst wrote: post #202
SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #166

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> It's a very acquired flavor... I don't think that it is actually "acquired". You liked it as a child, and still do. I find it to be vile and inedible, and always have. This preference seems to innate and fixed.

I didn't like beer, wine, whiskey or coffee at 16 or 18 and now do. I don't know when I started liking black licorice but surely I didn't eat that as a toddler. I remember my parents giving it to me when I couldn't sleep pretending it was a sleep medication. It worked haha

Are you saying that you went from the "hate liquorice" to the "like liquorice" camp? At what age? I literally don't know of anyone who has "acquired" the taste for liquorice via exposure.

It's really nothing like "aging into" the preference for coffee, beer, whiskey or wine. It's more like the preference for coriander / cilantro, which is genetic.

I appreciate that your experience of liquorice is different to mine, but I ask you to stop explaining my experience of liquorice to me.

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

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom »

ImprovedSilence wrote: post #230
kbutler wrote: post #214

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If you detested it the first 49 times, why keep eating it?

familiarity breeds comfort. A common hack to get your kids to eat anything, is to force them to try it at least 10 different times. They always keep spitting it out or crying they don't like it. Eventually one time you feed it to them and they get used to it and like it, as if they never threw a fit with it before. Not everybody's parents did this. That's why there's grown adults that eat nothing but pizza or steak a…

> familiarity breeds comfort.

That's manifestly untrue in some cases. If you like coriander / cilantro, and your child does very much not, would you just feed it to them regularly so that they "get familiar with it"?

That would be bad parenting, and also pointless cruelty to force them to eat "soap" fifty times. Show some empathy, and recognise that your tastes are not necessarily other people's tastes.

https://www.britannica.com/story/why-does-cilantro-taste-lik...

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom »

gowld wrote: post #189
SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #166

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> It's a very acquired flavor... I don't think that it is actually "acquired". You liked it as a child, and still do. I find it to be vile and inedible, and always have. This preference seems to innate and fixed.

Have you tried it more than 50 times?

>Have you tried it more than 50 times

Over the years, I must have. It's invariant. This is _not_ an "acquired taste" thing, it is simply unpalatable to some, and you can kindly stop pushing it.

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

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Post by boublepop »

riffic wrote: post #268
Dahoon wrote: post #223

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It's two cups.

By volume, or by weight? edit: A "cup" is just as shitty of a unit of measurement as "a bag": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit)

A cup is always by volume, so you can’t really criticize it based on that. A metric cup is 250mL, imperial is ~230mL it’s nowhere near as “shitty” as “a bag”, it’s just a unit of measure that you are unfamiliar with. It’s used quite a lot in baking.

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom »

kbenson wrote: post #238
ctidd wrote: post #235

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Forcing your children to eat things they aren't comfortable with is not a hack. Please do not do this. There is a significant difference between providing a positive environment for your child to encounter new foods and forcing them, physically or otherwise, to eat them.

There's something to be said for this, but I also don't think the GP literally meant forcing them. Forcing children to eat something can cause aversion and eating problems. That said, I am a fan of strongly incentivizing thought promising a later treat for the first few times there's something new to try that I want them to give a fair shake to.

> but I also don't think the GP literally meant forcing them

We only have the GP's words: and at face value, as they should be taken, they do seem to literally mean that.

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Post by elbear »

DanBC wrote: post #213
shard wrote: post #208

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I've come across a few foods that appear to be heavily acquired tastes, and if you did not get used to it as a kid, it is very difficult to change your tastes. Licorice is definitely one for me, it makes me feel like I am eating tree sap. Others include perilla leaves (called sesame leaves in Korean cuisine) and cilantro (people who are not used to it says it tastes like soap).

I found it interesting that the coriander thing is genetic: https://www.britannica.com/story/why-does-cilantro-taste-lik... > However, some people find cilantro revolting, including, famously, the chef Julia Child. Of course some of this dislike may come down to simple preference, but for those cilantro-haters for whom the plant tastes like soap, the issue is genetic. These people have a variation in a group of olfac…

To me coriander reminds me of the smell of a bug. So it took quite some time to get used to it, but now I like it, especially in things like Pho Bo.
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