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[–] sixty 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Who tf buys canned carrots

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Carrotmaxxers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day 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 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think its about the same? I haven't looked too hard and typically purchase based on what I'm intending to do with the veggies, but I do like to keep a few cans of veggies in the cupboards for a rainy day (or more accurately for when the whole family is sick and none of us have the energy to go to the store, which happens at least once every winter thanks to having young kids)

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

If it actually is about the same I 100% recommend frozen over canned. Same applications (stews etc) because they're also mushy when thawed, but they're fresher, so they aren't as gray and sad, aren't as salty, have more of a taste and more vitamins survive. Only cans I buy are legumes and tomatoes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah I primarily buy frozen for that purpose and observe better texture from it, but I've got more cupboard space than fridge space, so keeping some cans for when I'm out of everything else has been good

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

Does this mean RFK Jr has been drinking creosote?

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

explains the voice...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[british people broadly gesturing at sky]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

So since about 1606.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

We're too busy learning basic literary skills; like commas for example.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Carotenemia

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

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

Presenting to the emergency room

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Where we are now.

[–] captain_aggravated 5 points 1 day 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.

[–] JadenSmith 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 2 days 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] 4 points 2 days 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] 15 points 2 days 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 2 days ago (1 children)

That sounds terrible. Glad you survived.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (3 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 1 day ago

you suspect?!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day 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 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours 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] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

but it does give you super vision

confirmed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Fixed my mistake. I clearly need more carrots.

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

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

And they last longer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (4 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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (3 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.

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