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What really hit me that all this superfood shit was nonsense was when I watched a real nutritionist answer a question about “the best superfood” and they said “potatoes.”
Tbf, potatoes are fucking dope
Yes, but no. Yes it’s a “super food” in the sense that they are easy to grow and are nutritious and contain almost everything the body needs, but you’d have to eat like twenty kilos a day to survive on them solely.
Also, they can’t fly and potato eyes do not emit lasers.
I’m OK with that. I don’t need my potatoes demanding that I kneel before Zod.
Source? Do we know for certain? Maybe the potatoes are deceiving everyone, it has been confirmed that they are sentient.
…and now there’s diabetes.
It’s true, potatoes are one of the few singular plants that can provide almost all of a person’s nutritional needs with barely any other supplement.
Cheap, can be made into a variety of dishes, easy to prepare, really a winner allround.
More protein per acre than soy.
A factoid brought to you by the National Potato Council, who told me this once and I’ve never bothered to fact check it.
Edit: It’s a lie! What other lies have lobbing groups told me???
iirc its more calories/acre than… well lliterally anything else. Not sure about any specific nutrient though.
Corn beats it out, and by some reckonings so does rice. Pumpkins too.
There are a few more exotic plants like tigernut and duckweed that are supposed to be really high, but not many people eat those as a staple crop. Palm oil and sugar cane are supposed to be super high too, though you probably don’t want to be eating huge quantities of straight oil and sugar.
Finally there are a few tropical trees like jackfruit and breadfruit that produce enormous quantities of calories once mature. They have a huge advantage from their large leaf crowns and root systems (that they don’t have to periodically regrow like annual plants) + the tropical weather allowing production for the entire year.
I am going to consider this a success story, given that you were transparent about the provenance of this factoid, and you corrected yourself. Yay for learning!
I hadn’t ever thought to look it up over the last 10-12 years! Imagine that.
In fact it’s the most factoid it could be, an outright falsehood shared as a fact.
Yes, I did delight in getting to accurately use the word “factoid”; it’s useful for working through the trauma of learning that “factoid” doesn’t just mean a neat tidbit of fun facts, but rather quite the opposite. And for a “learning is fun” kind of gal like me, misinformation masked as genuine learning is deeply unfun — that is, unless we make the factoid itself our new object of study.
The system works!
This is about as good of an outcome as any can hope for in a “long” comment chain on the internet.
we did itYeah, the returns really become increasingly marginal the longer a comment chain goes on. ^(I think I’m committed to the bit though)
Now I’m starting to think that maybe Ray Cronise’s “potato diet” aka “Nutritarian diet” might not be so insane after all.
It certainly seemed to work for Penn Jillette and Kevin Smith. It’s extreme, but might work for certain people. I don’t know if I would have the discipline personally.
Rather broccoli. Mulberry and flaxseed too. Who knew, our pre-agriculture ancestors ate the healtiest.
pre-agriculture ancestors ate the healtiest.
and lived to the ripe age of 42.
But not because of their food.
Most likely also because of their food. Diabetes, gluten intolerance, food allergies, vitamin deficiency from eating way too much of the one thing that grew and didn’t die that harvest. Food related issues were all rampant, people just died of them.
Uhm, i’m talking pre-agriculture. Hunter-gatherer style, lots of seeds, some roots and vegetables, berries fruits, sometimes meat or fish.
Dying of hunger, so healthy.
/s
They live.
But even more likely is child mortality bringing down the averages.
You’re not gonna believe why child mortality was so high.
Also, the (often) improper diets of pregnant ladies, especially among the poorer classes of society, that meant a lack of essential vitamins and minerals, put mothers too at great risk. To compound the issue, matters got out of hand during the periods when the annual Nile floods did not materialize. With the mother dead, the newborn faced an uphill task in surviving the odds. Feeding a motherless child was one of the greatest difficulties that the ancient Egyptians encountered. The milk of livestock – cows and goats – was the only substitute to natural mother’s milk. How many could afford it? This is where the aunts or other close family members of the baby stepped in to carry out this function and keep the baby well-fed.
Y’know, I had a feeling this was coming.
The carrot has mystery. Flowers are essentially tarts. Prostitutes for the bees. There is you will agree special about a firm, young carrot.
Somebody said carrots?!??
Nice. I also like Charlie’s video which is a little less rigorous but also addresses the question of “what?”
LET THE RABBITS WEAR GLASSES, DAMN YOU, CAN I GET AN AMEN?!
That was decent
It’s worded like a fucking Jeopardy question
What is Turmeric!
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Could be sweet potatoes.
Also: bears and Battlestar Galactica.
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Sweet potato.
Huh, didnt know cnn plays dota2.
where did u go wrong in life to allow CNN push notifications on your phone
If you must consume corporate media at least do it trhough rss, please.
Yeah, if your reaction to “website wants permission to push notifications to your device” isn’t some mix between mirth and revulsion, I don’t fundamentally understand you.
Wait, why would mirth be involved?
“Haha the website runner thinks I’d actually be interested in this”
Oh. I thought mirth was just gladness; I guess I was leaning more towards something like “amusement.” Either way, got it.
It’s like people who actually watch commercials. If you don’t skip/look away/mute/otherwise attempt to ignore commercials, there are massive differences between us. I even had an ex who thought targeted ads were a good thing, and he would voluntarily fill out the marketing questions that streaming services asked in lieu of commercial breaks. I just … I can’t imagine wanting that.
Why pay for the fucking service, only to be served ads? It’s cable TV all over again. I hate it so much.
I have no idea where to find it anymore, but I once got an advertisement for some industrial machine that I think used lasers or something, but more importantly it sounded incredibly fake but was actually real. It was beautiful and made no sense to show me but I love it.
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honestly news doesn’t deserve push notifications imo
err isn’t worthy of push notifications *
There are very few newsworthy items I’d be happy to receive a notification for… and I expect I’d find out about those pretty quick from other people anyway
The sad thing is if Americans saw a supermarket shelf of only carrots or Cheetos, its clone in color and size only, they would stuff their carts with bags of Cheetos instead of a rabbit’s favorite snack. I love carrots but processed foods are America’s comfort cooking
I, too, love carrots, but man, you can’t tell me that a cheeto isn’t more tasty.
People in the US actually like Cheetos?
We are a sick people.
I think I honestly prefer carrots.
To me, it isn’t
Depends if you include the feeling of disgust and regret afterwards.
Lol, I think I would actually regret the carrots more, just because a single baby carrot actually has substance to it, while the cheeto is mostly air. Hard to eat a bag of carrots and not be full.
a rabbit’s favorite snack.
Just a PSA about this common myth - rabbits DO NOT naturally eat carrots.
Bugs Bunny popularized the idea, yet the only reason he ate carrots was as a reference/homage to Clark Gable in the 1934 film It Happened One Night.
Peter [Gable’s character] pulls out a carrot with the long leafy greens still attached, peels the skin with a pocket knife, and nonchalantly nibbles on the vegetable as cars whisk by. Peter continues to give the lesson while speaking with a mouthful of carrots, a personal quirk reminiscent of Bugs Bunny’s casual, carefree attitude.
Apparently a lot about Bugs Bunny was a reference to that character, including the phrase, “What’s up, Doc?”
Anyway, I’ve seen pet-owners give their rabbits carrots as if it’s a normal meal. It is not, and the high sugar in carrots can cause health issues. For the sake of your bunny, please get dietary advice from your pet’s veterinarian - not from a cartoon that parodied a film character 85 years ago.
The next thing you’ll be telling us is that we can’t arbitrarily drop anvils on people.
I’d prefer a piano. I wanna be like Eddy Valiant’s brother.
I thought it was about Trump, but at “nutrients” I was like: Wait a minute …
That’s the Orange Rude Vegetable
But easy mistake to make
You won’t believe how this title makes you click itself.
