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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Holy shitposts.

In my childhood I had yellow skin (Carotenemia) from overdosing on carotene from my idiot mom's woo diets. Macrobiotic diet with a shitload of pumpkin and carrots almost everyday. I won't eat pumpkin even 45 years later.

[–] JadenSmith 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I had a bit of an orange complexion, only for a very short while, however in the other sort of way.
I just really liked carrots, and whenever I'd see carrots I'd munch on them. For a while in my childhood it would be normal to see me just eating carrots throughout a Summer.

Once my mum noticed they were very quickly cut out, then later I just understood the cool orange skin was not good and I shouldn't have that many carrots. Life is unfair sometimes.

I cannot stress this enough: it was a lot of carrots.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for the wonderful anecdote! "Hey look Joe, kid & carrot again I told you about".

I still like carrots now and then, mostly as an ingredient, and sometimes just raw.

My mom did a good job making everything taste disgusting, certainly pumpkin and Japanese seaweeds cooked in too much salt. I remember she promised us to make fries once. My sister and me very happy, couldn't believe it as we where not allowed to eat nightshade plants...macrobiotic diet forbids, so that evening we had...pumpkin fries, we both crying. Disgustingly made btw and just some tamari and gomasio (more salt) for sauce.

We were into shoplifting not much later.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Carotenemia

Carot meanting "Carrot" and "-emia" meaning presense in blood ☝️

[–] captain_aggravated 6 points 3 weeks ago

My favorite thing about him is that he then uses the English phrase for the rest of the video, like they should do anyway. Don't tell me I have septicemia, tell me I have toilet presence in blood.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Presenting to the emergency room

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Where we are now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Were you or your mom overweight or there was some kind of medical issue that made her force this diet on you?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No, she was just into that esoteric spiritual I tjing and tarot bullshit, lateron Rudolf Steiner, homeopathic and faith healers shit. In the ‘70s this was a fad diet here in the Netherlands. She was very, very violent as well. I was pulled out of that when school began to notice the bruises, bad health and child protection services was notified. She didn't have a good upbringing though, but I didn't pass it onto my son. I don't hate her but she is a total idiot.

We were underfed, anyhow macrobiotic diet is notorious for not getting the nutrients you need. We where skinny, yellow, itchy, hungry, getting too much salt and a diet without much variety. “Oh your behaviour is to much yang right now…I need to get you on salad for a couple of weeks till I get you balanced”.

I am still seeing a shrink for that shit…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That sounds terrible. Glad you survived.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Heh, thank you kindly Jaybone, how a shitpost can trigger eh?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I bet this person has never even seen a fresh carrot.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Sees them and walks right by for the yummy carrots in salt broth

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

[british people broadly gesturing at sky]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Since when do british people care when they look like they're dead

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Based on all the British immigrants to Australia rocking fake tans and bleached hair... constantly?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Technically it is free. It's just all the treatment that costs (if you're American).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

It is! the treatment on the other hand...

[–] sixty 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Who tf buys canned carrots

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Carrotmaxxers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Canned veggies are cheap and great for mixing into a pot of other stuff. For a really cheap meal, toss a can of veggies into a pot of ramen. Ma fairly filling meal that hits multiple food groups yet it only costs about a dollar. I imagine most people buying canned carrots are doing so for cooking with

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Is frozen more expensive where you live? Here it isn't. And more nutritious and noticably more fresh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I grab a cup of frozen mixed vegetables to go with the ramen, balances out the meal.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Almost 30 years ago, when I worked in retail, there was a couple whose kids were orange because of this.

The parents were pretty open about intentionally feeding large amounts of that kind of stuff to their kids and not concerned at all about the ramifications of having unnaturally orange children. They'd clear the shelves of all the carrot, sweet potato, and pumpkin baby foods when the kids were young and then later on they did the same with produce and canned stuff like canned carrots, pumpkin pie stuff, etc.

They never explained why they did it. I suspect there was a degree of mental illness in them both, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

you suspect?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

they just really rally wanted oompa loompas

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

canned carrots? why? aren't carrots like 10-20 cents a piece, the can it self costs more

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Biggest bag of carrots for like 5 bucks. Baby carrots have increased in price a lot though. They're like twice as expensive as they used to be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Carrots are the new eggs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Bag? I think that's where you went wrong. You gotta buy them by the kilo, not prepackaged.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

In American stores the big bulk carrots come in a huge bag and those are the cheapest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

In the US, depending on the store carrots might be sold in bunches placed into loose unsealed plastic bags (and priced by weight) I can't find any photos of this practice in a quick search, but I suspect its more for branding reasons than anything

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

some people are disabled and can't process their own food

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

And they last longer.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"Well my skin's not orange yet but I can see as well at night as I can at noontime now."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

So do you not see during noontime that well?

I only ask because the carrots giving you better night vision was a lie made up during WW2 in order to keep radar tech a secret. Carrots might improve eyesight if you have weak eyesight, but it ~~does~~ doesn't give you super vision.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/carrots-cant-help-you-see-in-the-dark-heres-how-world-war-ii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-28812484/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

but it does give you super vision

confirmed

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As someone who's been tomatomaxxing for about two decades now, I can report a tan that would make me fit right in on a vampire meetup.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you garlic with your tomato? Is good but not for vampire.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn, what a question.

Garlic genuinely tastes quite pungent to me, as if you created a new taste between sour and bitter and really stinky sweat. I can't even put one clove into my tomato sauce or it'll taste of nothing but that pungent taste to me.
I do get a hint of what I assume garlic tastes like to most people, so sometimes I'll put in like half a pinch of garlic powder, but that's it.

So far, I assumed that was a genetic thing, but maybe I am just a vampire.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

You make me sad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Does this mean RFK Jr has been drinking creosote?

Probably wouldn't be the weirdest thing he's ingested, either...

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Raw carrots work better.

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