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[–] 119 points 4 months ago (24 children)

I knew a guy like this. He said he didn't like sunflower seeds for the same reason he didn't like shrimp. "Too crunchy". Apparently he was eating the shell and all of both of these things...

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  • [–] 37 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

    I had that experience with lychees. Nobody told me you weren't supposed to eat the crunchy center!

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    I had the opposite experience eating pomegranate the first time. So fucking delicious, but the pips were an unsettling crunch/texture that I couldn't get over. However, it's too much work to remove the pulp from the pips, so no fresh pomegranate for me. :(

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Its not bad once you realize the structure of the pomegranate. It also helps if you leave it in the refrigerator.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago*

    The way I eat pomegranate is like popcorn meets sunflower seeds.

    Take a few of the pearls, pop them in my mouth, break the water balloon with gentle chewing that doesn't break the seed, suck out the juice, spit the seed. Sometimes I’ll fidget and peel the pulp off with my teeth, is not much, but it’s a nice mindless activity to occupy my brain

    Pom is a flavored water fruit rather than a chew and swallow fruit. You don’t miss much leaving the pulp behind (and I'm not talking about the white rind) because theres not much of it to begin with. Its ideal for brainless time like watching movies. The prep is pretty easy, too, since the pearls tend to fall off pretty easily into a bowl, perfect for mindless snacking.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    You can always collect the juice, or just buy it. Pomegranate is great, but it's mostly just juice with seeds. Orange is very different than orange juice, for example, but pomegranate isn't.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)
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    Okay but a properly fried shrimp is peak with the shell on. Good snappy crunch to it, they help hold the flavor in, wonderful. And for tails I usually don't even care how they're cooked I just go ahead and eat the tails shell in saves a lot of hassle and they're pretty good

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    But that's how you eat sunflower seeds. You don't chew or swallow the shell, but you put it in your mouth and crack it with your teeth.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Nah I confirmed. He was just tossing them in his mouth and eating them whole. This is how the conversation came to be in the first place. He was a work friend and I offered him some sunflower seeds and he said "nah man too crunchy" and that unravelled the whole thing. He was a pretty sheltered guy, eating mostly processed garbage and nobody cooked in his house growing up. He was a nice guy just pretty oblivious at times. I once got him to eat one of those Airborne capsules you put in water and drink as a chewable.

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    [–] 46 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    I won't dog on them since the context implies this is ESL, but seeing "etc." punctuated as though it's an acronym is unholy.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    If their first language is a Romance language it still isn't an excuse, because "etc" comes from the Latin.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    But punctuation rules might be very different, e.g. in Spanish ordinal numerals are supposed to have a dot to denote that it's a contraction: 1.º

    Nowadays this seems to die down, but it still is in the rules:

    Entre el número y la letra volada debe haber un punto.

    There must be a period between the number and the superscript letter.

    https://www.rae.es/buen-uso-espa%C3%B1ol/los-ordinales

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Do any of those languages actually have a rule that you're supposed to put a dot in the middle of "et," though? It'd be pretty weird if they did because "et" is one word...

    "e.t.c." makes about as much sense as "a.n.d. other things."

    (At least the old-fashioned English way of doing it, with a ligature connecting the e and t like so: "&c" was somewhat reasonable.)

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  • [–] 42 points 4 months ago (12 children)

    Yeah this is silly and cringe but eating frozen fruits while they're still frozen is amazing.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    They are better while they are still frozen. Love me a bowl of frozen mixed berries, even worth the seeds that stick in the teeth.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    So true! I really think that banana, grapes and pineapple work particularly well when frozen 🤤

    What fruits do you enjoy frozen?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    My processing speed is embarrassing today.

    Also, my good sir, boobewwy is not a fwuit. Tis a bewwy. You're cheating!

    But I'm sure it is delicious.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Cherries. Mmm, especially with plain yoghurt.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    They can be so friggin good @,@

    One of my sibs has a cherry tree in their garden and the cherries are so red, they turn black and the taste is fucking ridiculous, dude @,@ ❤️

    I have to try the frozen cherry and yogurt combo! Sounds rather perfect in this summer heat, actually!

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  • [–] 33 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    My father likes to tell this tale of when he made fried spaghetti because he was a poor student and his buddy liked it so much that he asked how to make them. My father replied "Like normal spaghetti. But you fry them in a pan."

    That's what he did. Instead of cooking he fried the dry spaghetti in a pan.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    My dad tried frying frozen peas once. Turned the kitchen into Viet goddamn Nam. I still have flashbacks.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I actually love frozen peas because they can easily be thrown into whatever I'm currently making. Especially something like fried rice.

    Of course, just frying them alone is probably pretty difficult.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Going in another direction, but ramen is great if you fry it after boiling it. Just drain the water (save it if it's a broth type as you can add the noodles back after frying), then drop them in a pan with heated oil, fry them for a few minutes, just to the point where the noodles on the bottom start to burn a bit (don't stir them before this but do stir after to interrupt the burning) and your ramen will have a satisfying crunch.

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  • [–] 32 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    tbf, ignorance is something you giggle at once, before getting over it and educating them. Hopefully OP and their friend got over it and managed some actual change

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Belongs in the category of things you know once somebody told you. I think we all have little things that nobody has ever taught us and everyone else knows.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I love frozen fruit and veg! If you've never tried it then don't knock it

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    I work with a kid who really likes cold sensations in his mouth (autism, this kind of experience isn't uncommon.) At snack time he eats frozen peas and frozen blueberries.

    Which is why when I recently cooked with frozen peas, I tried a few before cooking. I get it, I'm a fan of peas and the novel texture of them being frozen was interesting. I didn't love it enough to make a new snack out of it, but you're right - you never know until you try.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago

    Legitimately I've snacked on frozen veggies in the hot summer. Anyways, just get all your macros and take in fewer calories than you burn and you'll lose weight.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Totally gay, because office bro was totally hoping to get some booty.

    But damn if I can't believe this is true. I've met people that are that unaware of that kind of thing. Shit, I once had to teach a 76 year old man how to operate a can opener because up until then, his wife had done all kitchen stuff.

    I started the case maybe two weeks before and had been doing the meal prep because home health. One morning, I show up and my man is stabbing at the top of a can with an old butcher knife. I freak out a little because, damn, dude needs a nurse's assistant, so an already less than ideal tool was crazy dangerous. Also, dude had decided to ignore the nicely arranged food I had cooked the day before, which is story in itself.

    So I dig through the drawers and find a shitty old can opener. Show him how to use it, and Bob's your uncle. Mostly.

    Dude wasn't senile, believe it or not. Just not the brightest crayon in the box and woefully a product of his generation. Nice guy though! Not always the case on a case.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I swear some people act so fucking alien about life, like they had not learned some of the most basic things, or lack what you would consider to be the most obvious social skills.

    I think some families just royally fucked up their kids heads growing up.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    No, they just didn't have your life. or your standards, or your 'skills'.

    I grew up working-class, and upper middle class people think my social skills are shit, because I'm not endlessly passive-aggressive like they are. I have no issue communicating with with other working-class people, but upper class people think I'm a social freak because I speak my mind directly, which to them is an impossible idea. Of course, I can code switch and out passive-aggressive them and they think i'm very respectable and intelligent... but it's just fucking stupid and pointless to me. So I generally I just don't bother to ineract with them or I act stupid because I don't want to spend 15m listening to them about 'how to respect public space' when they are just pissed off my friend parked in front of their house on public street parking and they are upset because they think it is 'their' parking space, when legally it isn't.

    It's almost as if we have entirely different ideas of what 'social skills' are. I think a selfish cunt is a cunt, no matter how politely they frame their discussion as one of 'public interest and being neighborly'. They think anyone who doesn't respect their passive aggressive flavor of being a cunt is destroying the social order of society. And where I come from, being neighborly is getting the fuck over yourself and not trying to claim a public street is your personal property that nobody else can use without your permission.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago*

    The bag (usually) has cooking instructions written on the it...

    Ignorance I can forgive, but lack of curiosity is inexcusable.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Very in character for anon.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    This is something an alien would do. It would perfectly fit as a scene in the Resident Alien series. And now I'm kinda disappointed it wasn't.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    We live in a hot climate and all my kids loved to eat frozen corn, frozen. I could never cook it because if I bought a bag they would raid it.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    A lot of frozen vegetables are raw and require cooking to ensure safety

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  • [+] -11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Tell me you're white without telling me you're white.

    No shade to fair folks who are fair cooks, but I ain't never seen a person with melanin who does not know that cooked veggies are a thing. It's always the pigmentally challenged.

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  • [+] -6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (11 children)

    Peas and carrots are too full of sugar. I mean, they’re better than chips or candy bars by a long shot, but minimizing them or mixing peas and carrots with other less sugary veg is a better idea.

    Edit: triggered people who somehow think I said you can’t eat peas and carrots. Whatever. SJW away.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Good grief, can we stop shaming people for eating the "wrong types of vegetables" as if that's even a thing? Just be happy they're eating any at all.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    No. Health obsessed people are mostly obsessed with feeling superior to others based on diet, so they won't ever stop shaming anyone who eats differently than they do. They are projecting their insecurity with themselves, and they are so insecure eating some peas might as well by drinking 2L of soda per day, because they are unable to contextualize anything appropriately, and just panic over every slightly 'wrong' thing someone else does.

    Same with politics or a hobby, or anything else people seek personal validation in. Anyone who doesn't do it exactly the way they do it is invalidating them and it hurts them and they lash out.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You do understand all sugar isn't created equal, yes? And sugar interacts with other components of a given food? Carbs don't exist in a vacuum. You're comparing actual whole foods to literal trash.

    Please educate yourself and also stop spreading bullshit.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    No, they are actually correct about the effects of starchy vegetables. They have some benefits - like carrots having beta-carotene, but they are about as unhealthy as refined grains are. Maybe slightly worse. Their consumption should be kept on the lower side, and their detriments can be mitigated or even canceled out by being eaten in the same meal as other high fiber whole foods and sources of unsaturated fats.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Adding to this, because despite the kneejerk reactions, you're pretty correct on this one. Carrots and peas are both more on the high starch side, not quite as high fiber as other plant foods. So basically you can think of them as being in the same category as potatoes. Starchy vegetables are actually more strongly associated with unhealthy aging than even refined grains.

    And like you said, this isn't to demonize them. They still have a place in any reasonable diet, it's just a good idea to be aware of the need for balance with other more beneficial foods like fruit, vegetables, whole grains, sources of unsaturated fats, legumes, and nuts and seeds.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    The kneejerk reactions are justified IMO. You don't need to "minimize" peas and carrots to have a healthy diet. Obviously they shouldn't be all you eat, but that holds for pretty much all foods - balance is key.

    There's several issues with your source.

    First, it would have been nice of you to link to the relevant figure so others aren't forced to comb through the whole thing.

    Second, it's important to point out that this data only shows correlation. The data is interesting for sure, but one should be cautious about demonizing a particular food group based on this alone, considering that the main point of the study was to analyze the health benefits of particular diets rather than food groups.
    (note also that fast/fried foods got a positive score, which makes me further apprehensive about drawing quick conclusions from this data)

    Third, this study focused on health professionals only. I don't know why it shouldn't generalize to the general population but it is not a given that it does.

    Most importantly, it is not clear (to me at least) that peas and carrots are part of the category "starchy vegetables" according to this study. I couldn't find any explicit description of the categories, please let me know if there is one in the study or one of its sources.
    From what I could find online, peas can be considered starchy vegetables, but carrots usually aren't. For instance, this site classifies both carrots and some types of peas as non-starchy.

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