I eat something first (at least presuming the pill can be taken with food) to get my mouth and throat into swallowing mode; put the pill in, take a big gulp of water, hope it goes down; if it does, immediately eat something else, to get rid of the sensation that I’ve got a pill in my throat, which otherwise is likely to last far longer than the pill was actually there.
And my reaction would be neither “approve” nor “disapprove” but “I really hope that Friend knows what they’re doing and can provide the conditions all those creatures need and also that they can all live with each other instead of one of them eating the rest.” Combined with a side of "but buying them at the grocery just increases the market so that people will catch more of them to sell to the grocery – "
Rather a sense of ‘the heart may be in the right place but it’s probably not properly hooked to the brain’.
I’m not a good pill swallower. The smaller the better. A Tylenol capsule is pushing it. Something like a Centrum is never ever happening. Once I had to take a course of Cipro which was about that size and I really struggled with them all two weeks long. It was torture for me.
I don’t really care what anyone does with the live shellfish from a store (but wait! You guys have stores with tanks of live shellfish in them? I must not be shopping at the fancy supermarkets), but if the person is really my friend, I disapprove just because it’s so stupid.
I put pills in my mouth and then drink them with water, but I’m starting to have trouble swallowing larger pills. My mom had the same thing happen to her - it feels like they’re sticking in a pocket at the top of my throat. I’ve thought of trying to preload my mouth with some water to see if that helps, but I bet I’d just end up with water all down my front (and a pill stuck in my throat).
I watched a few YouTube videos where a guy put a lobster from the supermarket into a tank in his home. He actually does some physical therapy so that the claws eventually work again. The lobster looks a bit better each video.
I like gingerbread and ginger cookies/snaps, but if they had icing I would scrape it off before eating.
Swallowing pills has never been a problem for me and I always do it without water, but the only pills I take are a daily vitamin(to please my better half), a couple of aspirin once in a while, or a (fortunately rare) antibiotic. It has always seemed to me that someone’s ease-of-pill-swallowing is inversely related to how many pills they have to take. The poor folks that have to take a dozen a day always seem to have the most trouble getting them down.
I would heartily approve of a friend trying shellfish in their (presumably already existing) saltwater tank, mostly for amusement. But it certainly could work.
I have seen live lobsters in a tank at stores, but never crabs or flounder(or any finfish). Crabs and oysters are sold live, but they are always on ice and in a state of dormancy.
The flounder is a more interesting problem if sold live from a tank. How do they get it out? The easiest way would be to gig it, but then it wouldn’t be alive anymore. Trying to net a free-swimming flounder would be comedy gold, especially after it was caught. They bounce around like ping pong balls. I would want it on video. Hook and line in a store would be equally entertaining. Then how do you get it home? Like a goldfish, but in a trash bag filled with water?
I’ve seen fin-fish live in tanks at upscale Chinese restaurants. Never at a supermarket. And never a flounder. I’ve seen live flounder somewhere. Maybe video? Maybe an aquarium? I agree that getting it home would be entertaining.
I’m actually significantly better at it than I used to be when I almost never took any. I can even – usually – get down the Xigduo which includes a sizeable dose of Metformin, and Metformin pills are all great big ones. I take that one first in the day – and after that one the others all now seem easy, even though any of them would have given me trouble before I started having to take the metformin.
When we would go visit my grandparents as a kid the grocery store in their town had live fish in a tank. That always seemed like a novelty, because none of the stores back home had that. In hindsight, it seems kind of odd that a store in small town Wisconsin would have something “fancy” like that. But the town does have a large hospital, so maybe the store catered to the wealthy doctors.
Where I live now the Asian supermarket has tanks of live fish. None of the “regular” grocery stores that I shop at do.
Pittsburgh seafood market, Wholey’s, has live fish occasionally. I once bought a live tilapia. After purchase they gut and filet it. I made tilapia ceviche.
I swallow them whole, in a single handful of medication and supplements mixed. I did, however, do research first about what can and cannot be taken at the same time.
I have a really sensitive gag reflex so there’s a high chance I’m going to gag any time I swallow a pill. I have one that I take that is shaped like a hexagon, I shit you not, that shape seemed like a good idea to whoever made my pill, and I gag on it about 90% of days.