Don’tcha hate when you get near the bottom of a jar of mayo and find a used condom?
There may be a small grain of truth to that. And I’ve encountered hot drinks in hot climates fairly commonly. Indians, in particularly, seemed to be very fond of that. Found the same in Central Asia.
As a wee lad I developed a fondness for the taste of green, hard-to-peel, bananas which I continued to consume daily for months despite the bellyache they dependably would cause.
I’m not as weird now.
One of the most common myths: Lima Beans taste good.
I thought Judge Reinhold improvised that for Beverly Hills Cop. People actually believe that?
That’s not entirely a myth. Green bananas can be over 50% resistant starch, most of which is undigestable and passes to the bowel, where it is consumed by the gut biota. Their waste products include methane and carbon dioxide, explaining the rumbling tummies.
Interestingly, the gut biota that relies on soluble fiber/resistant starch has become been the focus of recent research. It may very well be that deliberately cultivating and feeding said gut biota with resistant starch may lead to better health outcomes (lower insulin resistance, less bowel inflammation, etc).
You’ve never had them prepared properly; slow cook for a goodly amount of time with some kinda pork product.
Or, throw in some corn for succotash.
Mmmmmm…limas.
I always say “I’m cultivating a rich and diverse microbiome”.
My mom told us never to stand close to the microwave while it was on. Turns out, if it isn’t actually cooking you, it’s not harming you at all. Just like a regular oven.
Furthermore, I had a girlfriend who was deadly serious about not microwaving anything plastic, because it would leech into your food and kill you. The same girlfriend who told me teflon was poisonous and our flaking teflon pans were killing us. (It’s inert and harmless, though by the time the teflon flakes off, the pan is basically worthless and should be replaced.)
Did anybody tell you as a kid that watching too much TV would “fry your eyes like bacon”? Bacon eyes sounded cool though and I always kind of wanted them. Mmm, bacon eyes!
I might be misunderstanding this one. A cup of Special K has 23g of carbs, of which 4g are sugars. Eight ounces of Coke has 26g of carbs, of which 26g are sugars. I admit my understanding of the distinction between “carbs” and “sugars” is hazy at best. Are you saying, essentially, carbs is carbs?
starches are long chains of sugar molecules, and many (most?) are broken down by the body into glucose.
Warm bread will give you a stomach ache. This was my mother in her attempts to keep my father and I from butchering her fresh-baked loaves.
Eating raw cookie dough will give you worms. Really, mom? Sugar, butter, flour and egg will give me worms? Salmonella, maybe.
OK. Still confessing my ignorance here. Is that nutritionally equivalent to taking a nice long sip of corn syrup?
in terms of calorie intake? Yes, I believe so. supposedly it won’t enter your bloodstream as quickly (glycemic index.)
“sauce is a myth”
A cup of Special K only weighs 31 grams (about one ounce).
Probably from Eddie Haskell.
I was going by volume. The Coke measures were for 8 fluid ounces
Wow, Cliff Clavin was right!
The one I have is pretty bizarre; that if you give food to someone who hasn’t eaten in a while and don’t give them anything to drink, it will probably kill them. My mom was fond of this idea, and even claimed a relative inadvertantly killed someone this way.
Mom always told me eating raw potatoes would give me worms; turns out not so much. Same with the raw cookie dough.
I love all the juice/detox pseudoscience, especially when I need a good chuckle.
“Beer tastes good.”