But not sorbet?
– it may be pretty widespread, for all I know. There are often widespread things that I wasn’t aware of.
Shave Ice is not just like a snow cone. Snow cones are as you decribed them. With Shave Ice, you get maximum juice/ice melding, and they’re super refreshing. It’s closer to how chipped ice is in a cold drink as opposed to ice cubes, but so much better.
I think I’ve heard of Italian Ice, but I’ve never seen it.
To answer the “did you find that something is unusual about your body” question, I learned as an adult that my body, for whatever reason, reacts different to some drugs than most other folks.
Alcohol never gives me the slightest pleasure or buzz, it’s just nausea and “I need to lie down” misery. (I have a hard time grasping how people have fun at parties by drinking alcoholic beverages, it’s as if people drank Ipecac syrup in celebration of their team winning the Super Bowl.) Same for ketamine.
About twenty years ago, I went to the neurologist to find out why my leg kept going numb.* She had ordered nerve tests (zero stars - would not recommend) and an MRI. The MRI showed that I was severely brain damaged, as in I was missing a “significant portion” of my brain. The radiologist freaked out and wanted to oder surgery and stents put in. The neurologist told him to chill. I had been getting along fine for thirty years, just leave it be until some sort of symptoms showed. During the post MRI consultation, she asked me about balance and incontinence about five times. My sister said that she could have told me about the brain damage for free, if I’d only asked her. Aren’t siblings great?
That’s my unusual body story.
* - it turned out the correct answer was, “Stop crossing your legs when you sit.”
I pronounce it Tomato AND tomahto because “tomahto” is the correct pronunciation of the word “tomato” The wrong option should be “tomayto”
I have photic sneeze reflex. I’m not sure I should call it “unusual,” as 18 to 35 percent of the population has it. But I voted that I found out it was unusual as an adult.
The definitive answer on how to pronounce “Data”.
The Person Who Does Not Fit weighs in:
I’m pretty sure I say day-tuh. Which does not appear to be an option.
I have mixed feelings about not having had children.
I’m not sure whether to click “I never had the opportunity.” I think it’s very likely that I could have gotten pregnant. I never found anyone I wanted to be in a long term relationship with who also wanted to be in one with me, however; and I chose to do my (successful) best to not get pregnant without a reasonable expectation of having help raising the child(ren), because while I’m not entirely sure what kind of parent I would have been if raising children as part of a couple I am entirely sure that I would have been terrible at doing it on my own.
I did vote that I’m not sure what kind of parent I would have been; but didn’t on the other two questions.
Is there a typo in your post? “Day-tuh” is exactly one of the options.
Personally, I say “datums”.
You’re of East Asian ethnicity, right? I was told by a Chinese-American friend that a lot of East Asians don’t metabolize alcohol the same way as other groups. He turned really red and felt sick. So, he just didn’t drink.
Huh. You’re right. Somehow I read “day-tuh” and “dad-uh” and got them mixed up. – have voted.
What would you do with someone who used the short a with the t sound, though?
Yes, East Asian. But my face doesn’t turn red. I get sick and woozy, but nothing happens to the skin or face.
Another good reason not to drink!
Weird body thing I discovered about myself, as an adult:
From childhood, I walked on my toes. This led to some teasing by classmates, as well as funky wear patterns on my shoes. No one ever thought to try to change how I walked, or look into why.
In my mid 40s, I took up runnng, and began to develop knee pain soon after I started running for more than a few minutes at a time. I went to see a sports medicine doctor, who examined my legs, with lots of "hmmmm"s. She then asked me, seemingly out of the blue, if I had any history of muscular dystrophy in my family (I don’t).
She went on to tell me that I had the tightest muscles and tendons that she had ever seen on a patient, which explained the knee pain – my tendons were so tight that, when I’d run, they were trying to pull my knees out of joint. She’d asked about the muscular dystrophy because there is apparently some form of the disease that expresses itself as very tight muscles and tendons.
She counseled me that I could certainly run, but I would need to be religious about stretching my legs, in order to avoid the pain. That actually worked, but it also had the side effect of leaving me no longer walking on my toes – the tendons in my lower legs were finally loose enough that my heels would hit the ground when I walked. 
I had a friend who said she only walked on her toes as a little kid, but I’m pretty sure she had surgery to correct whatever issue it was that made her walk like that. Didn’t your parents ever notice and think to have it checked out?
They absolutely noticed; when I was 4 or 5, I was already walking that way, while my baby sister, prior to walking, scooted around the house, rather than crawling. My dad, at the time, apparently joked that he had a son who was going to be a ballet dancer, and a daughter who was going to be a high-rise construction worker (scooting along on steel beams).
I wouldn’t be surprised if they brought it up to a pediatrician, who was apparently unconcerned, as i don’t recall ever having any sort of treatment, orthotics, etc.
O.k. that makes me feel better about your folks!
I have several answers to “did you find that something is unusual about your body” question:
I found out that I had scoliosis (which I suspected but doc had said no) in addition to slightly twisted hip bones. That has played out in endless back and leg trouble after I took up running.
Not found out until peri-menopause that I had poly-cystic-ovary syndrome, which has a whole host of issues attached to it. I suspect that my father’s mother also had it but it wasn’t a named thing back in her day.
I assumed that everyone could hear the blood rushing past their ears, but as an adult, I found out that, while some people can hear it, it is not common.
I have central heterochromia. It is actually pretty rare and explains why everyone called me a green-eyed redhead, when in fact my eyes are blue and amber. It was many years before I realized this isn’t normal.
I could go on, but…
Did I choose, not choose to have kids, etc. Well, I was pregnant once and had a mis. Little did I know that was a rare pregnancy because I had (as mentioned above) PCOS. PCOS people often have trouble falling pregnant and it gets much harder, more quickly than those without PCOS, the older you get.
Once I started looking into sperm donors, I got laid off my job and quickly progressed to depression, so I put off the donor idea because depressed single mom did not seem like a good atmosphere for being a good parent. And then boom. Had to have ovaries removed. Therefore no kids. Regrets. Given where human society is today, no regrets about that status either.
None of my body oddities surprised me by being weird. Somehow I figured out early on that I was a few degrees off of normal.
I suppose finding out that I had a receding chin, and wasn’t just fat enough to have a double chin in adulthood counts. But it was another example of my body being put together weird.
My orthodontist when I was an adult said that he could tell what needed to be done for 99% of his patients "and then there’s you "
As a resident of Italy, the ice-cream poll genuinely confused me.
“Gelato” is the word for ice cream.
“Ice cream” is, well, ice cream.
“Italian ice” is, umm, ice cream from Italy?
They all seem the same thing to me. 