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Re: Toxic squash syndrome

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Post by Broken_Hippo »

scarygliders wrote: post #14

From a very young age I rejected eating cucumber. It never "tasted right" to me, and it always makes me have horrible cucumber-flavoured burps. Blech! I can't abide grapefruit or melon either, though I don't know if those are included in the list of potentially toxin-producing plants in the article. Also, never been that keen on pumpkin. Basically any kind of food of the above ilk. Especially though with the cucumber…

...and it always makes me have horrible cucumber-flavoured burps. Blech!

You are not alone - in fact, this is the very reason 'burpless' cucumbers were invented. [1] Supposedly, they taste differently and cause fewer burps. I know I've eaten them myself - my mother used to plant burpless varieties - but it has been too long for me to back up the taste bit.

[1]https://www.plantfoodathome.com/why-are-burpless-cucumbers-c...

Re: Toxic squash syndrome

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Post by black_puppydog »

> could result from cross-pollination with wild cucurbitaceae species, or from plant growth stress due to high temperature and drought.

ouch. if it's the latter then this will become much much more frequent. on the other hand, if it's the former then it will become less frequent.

so I guess we'll see in a few years :)

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Post by formerly_proven »

burntoutfire wrote: post #20

...and I thought this is somehow about squashing commits in a toxic way, e.g. rewriting the commit message to seem that you've done all the work yourself. Was surprised that it's already a syndrome though.

One of my annoyances with GitHub's UI is how it emphasizes committer and commit date (in particular), things which are less relevant and usually just noise compared to the author and authoring date.

Re: Toxic squash syndrome

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Post by pmoriarty »

ars wrote: post #11
el_benhameen wrote: post #4

I once had a nasty case of food poisoning from a zucchini salad that I made. I always assumed it was from not washing them properly or undercooking them, but maybe this was it! In any case, my wife still hates zucchini even though it’s been many years since that incident.

I always taste zucchini before using them in a dish. You can eat them raw, so just taste a piece and if it's bitter don't use it. These toxins are quite bitter tasting, so you'll detect that as well as old zucchini that just don't taste good.

I use a lot of frozen, sliced zucchini that I buy in bags from the grocery story... It's there some way to test them for safety before using them?

Since they're already sliced it seems like I'd have to taste each slice to be sure no slice is bitter.

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Post by nibbleshifter »

scarygliders wrote: post #14

From a very young age I rejected eating cucumber. It never "tasted right" to me, and it always makes me have horrible cucumber-flavoured burps. Blech! I can't abide grapefruit or melon either, though I don't know if those are included in the list of potentially toxin-producing plants in the article. Also, never been that keen on pumpkin. Basically any kind of food of the above ilk. Especially though with the cucumber…

I have some reason to believe that cucumber aversion might be genetic.

I recall coming across something about it a while back while looking into the cilantro soap gene thing, apparently there's a few similar genes that cause other food aversions (eg: kale, cucumber, etc).

One suggested reason for this trait is literally "avoiding getting poisoned".

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Post by memorable »

shmde wrote: post #6

TL;DR- Do not under any circumstance eat a vegetable which does not taste the way its supposed to taste. Bitter gourd tasting sweet ? Bottle gourd/Cucumber/Zuccini/Pumpkin tasting bitter ? Straight to the trash. In India a lot of elderly drink raw veggie juice on empty stomach in the morning and they don't usually discard veggies like this because bought with 'hard earned money' and die because of the toxicity. Two o…

That's kinda sad tbh.

Re: Toxic squash syndrome

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Post by teddyh »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #9
dang wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It did, but our software replaces URLs with canonical URLs when it finds them. I didn't realize this was having the effect of stripping Wikipedia anchors. We may need to make an exception for those.

Is there a public list of HN's special cases? Like how GitHub repos are listed by user path, I think some sites show subdomains, if there are URL patterns that do or don't get stripped off submissions. Would be interesting to read if it's not sensitive.

For a similar list, see the Public Suffix List: https://publicsuffix.org/

(I suggested 7 years ago that HN should use it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8909146#8911044)

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