# Picky eating can make you go blind. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 3, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picky-eating-can-make-you-go-blind/839631 "2019-09-03T16:31:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picky-eating-can-make-you-go-blind/839631/21 "2019-09-04T19:39:09Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Save it up for September 19th, Talk Like A Pirate Day. Arrrr! Don’t be tellin’ me wha’ t’ do, ye scurvy strumpet! ETA: Yarrr. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picky-eating-can-make-you-go-blind/839631/22 "2019-09-04T20:05:50Z")
Har! I gots me \*\*three \*\*parrots, so there! I’m more pirate than you! (Really, someone start a pirate thread on the 19th). ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picky-eating-can-make-you-go-blind/839631/23 "2019-09-04T20:06:52Z")
“The guns be ready, Cap’n!” “The guns ARRRR ready, you scurvy Dutch built bugger!” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picky-eating-can-make-you-go-blind/839631/24 "2019-09-04T20:15:25Z")
“Stwike him, Centuwion. Knock him wuffwy to the gwound!” Whoops, sorry! I thought we were talking about “Talk Like Pilate Day.” \*\* DUH! \*\* :smack: ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picky-eating-can-make-you-go-blind/839631/25 "2019-09-04T20:22:32Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > When I was a grad student, one of the undergrad workers in our lab wouldn’t eat any fruits or vegetables. Basically cheese and meat and junky snacks. He was feeling poorly and decided to go to the doctor. Diagnosis: scurvy. Scurvy! My high school (and college) crush reported that she got scurvy as a result of limiting her diet to the meals provided by SAGA foods (who had the meal plan concession at the university we were attending). She said the doctor who diagnosed her complained that it was a pretty common problem at schools that contracted with SAGA. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picky-eating-can-make-you-go-blind/839631/26 "2019-09-04T20:37:04Z")
> [@susan](#): > > …Another is reporting it as “chips/fries and bread” when he ate processed meat as well. calling this diet “junk food,” which it isn’t–it is a highly deficient diet, but not junk food… How on earth isn’t that ‘junk food’? But I do agree that this story has been overblown; if everyone who ate this crappily went blind, it would be like Day of the Triffids round here. Must be some major genetic component or something. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picky-eating-can-make-you-go-blind/839631/27 "2019-09-04T20:45:37Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > It’s picky eating that can make you go blind, not masturbation. Damn! So I now have two things to worry about? :dubious: :mad: ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picky-eating-can-make-you-go-blind/839631/28 "2019-09-04T21:19:48Z")
I make a sandwich with white bread and some packaged ham. I eat it with some Pringles. I agree this may be construed as junk food (not highly nutritious, packaged). However, it’s a fairly common meal and the issue in this situation is the restrictiveness, and not that people are going to go blind from potato chips. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picky-eating-can-make-you-go-blind/839631/29 "2019-09-05T02:01:10Z")
> [@Staggerlee](#): > > it would be like Day of the Triffids round here. A Classical Reference that shall not be lost on most Dopers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picky-eating-can-make-you-go-blind/839631.md?page=1)