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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 OkGoDoIt »

Clampower wrote: post #311
OkGoDoIt wrote: post #255

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One of the weird things I’ve found traveling internationally is that salt & butter popcorn is apparently an American thing. In Asia and South America popcorn is almost always sweet. Salt & butter popcorn is one of those things you don’t realize how much you’ll miss it until you go to every market and movie theater in town and can’t find any popcorn that’s not sweet :-/

This is just not true. Salty popcorn is very normal in both Europe and Latin America. The artificial butter component is something that is more American and rarer outside of the US.

I can’t speak to Europe, and admittedly my Latin America experience is somewhat limited to Argentina, Chile, and Brazil, and my Asia experience is mostly China, Hong Kong, Korea, and Vietnam. I’m sure there are places where it’s possible to get salty popcorn, but I have found it incredibly frustratingly difficult to find popcorn that is not sweet on my travels. Often if I do find salty popcorn it will be sweet and salty. I certainly don’t like the popcorn I do find, and I get the impression people from those areas wouldn’t like the kind of popcorn that I enjoy. Which I think was the whole point of this subthread, that culinary preferences are often very regional and things we take for granted in one area might be very different elsewhere in ways we don’t expect. I certainly never anticipated what a quest I would have to mount to find something that seemed so pedestrian to me growing up: salt and butter popcorn

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Post by 1-more »

thisisnico wrote: post #30
1-more wrote: post #18

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I've been thinking I wanted to incorporate it into my next powerlifting meet as a game-day PED because I can absolutely notice my blood pressure going up while eating it. Great now I need to write a grant proposal for the study…

I stay far far away from competition as a powerlifter/bodybuilder. You pretty much need PED's just to compete, and not even to compete well, PED's + Insane training and Diet for that.

Eh, the drug tested feds in my area (NYC) are reasonably clean. My non-cheater friends do well enough in local and even national meets that I'm pretty confident in that. I think having an untested outlet for competition (with better cash prizes than the tested feds) helps.

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Post by throw_away »

geitir wrote: post #276
vmception wrote: post #245

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On a similar note, I used to not smoke anything but gladly partake in a hookah pipe while out, I liked the different flavors and assumed the “fog” was benign. I stopped AS SOON AS I heard about how much worse hookah was. I had no clue and am completely appalled at the lack of warnings. I’ve met many other people that say the same thing. I still don't smoke anything, and also cut hookah out.

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.

I didn't know about the glycerin (the same substance used in e-cigs). This makes me think even more that the e-cigarette industry did a huge marketing fail in not calling them e-hookahs.

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Post by mrguyorama »

myself248 wrote: post #251
lostgame wrote: post #232

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>> Aw jeez seriously? Caffeine pills are helping me kick my Dew habit. Not experienced; but isn't that like taking amphetamines to kick a cocaine habit? :/

The pop is caffeine + sugar + flavor So I'm replacing it with a caffeine pill and flavored water, to get the sugar calories out. Then later I'll try to reduce the caffeine dose, and/or go to plain tap water.

A caffeine pill is way too much caffeine. A 24oz bottle of dew has like 50mg of caffeine compared to something usually closer to 200mg in those pills.

Consider normal tea, or my SO just recently accidentally found caffeinated sparkling water, which exists somehow

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

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Post by kbenson »

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #309
kbenson wrote: post #238

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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.

To a degree. Hyperbole and idioms are a normal part of communication, as is learning to decipher meaning from them.

If someone said something along the lines of "I would kill my son if they did that", would you take that literally, or as a hyperbolic idiom meaning they would be mad at them and punish them?

I think the actual meaning of the statement in question is ambiguous given the above, and providing for the option that you misinterpreted someone's meaning when condemning their speech likely does a lot to keep the discussion civil and useful.

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

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom »

kbenson wrote: post #335
SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #309

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

To a degree. Hyperbole and idioms are a normal part of communication, as is learning to decipher meaning from them. If someone said something along the lines of "I would kill my son if they did that", would you take that literally, or as a hyperbolic idiom meaning they would be mad at them and punish them? I think the actual meaning of the statement in question is ambiguous given the above, and providing for the opti…

parents actually killing their child is rare. Parents actually making their child eat specific food, with threat of physical force, not so rare. You don't have to search for a figurative meaning where none is needed.

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Post by SomeoneFromCA »

baby wrote: post #26
AnotherGoodName wrote: post #22

Another 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

Oh gosh, I used to eat massive amounts of chocolate for easter when I was a kid and I would get really sick from it.

My cousine ate a pound of prunes when he was 3 yo. He got a royal diarrhea that day, the damn prunes came out of every hole.

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Post by mikeymz »

legitster wrote: post #35

> "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…

yes some aspect of this dudes diet was coming for him. he made it interesting by eating a ridic amount of licorice (?)
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