Don’t be tellin’ me wha’ t’ do, ye scurvy strumpet!
ETA: Yarrr.
Har! I gots me **three **parrots, so there! I’m more pirate than you! (Really, someone start a pirate thread on the 19th).
“The guns be ready, Cap’n!”
“The guns ARRRR ready, you scurvy Dutch built bugger!”
“Stwike him, Centuwion. Knock him wuffwy to the gwound!”
Whoops, sorry! I thought we were talking about “Talk Like Pilate Day.” ** DUH! ** :smack:
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.
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.
Damn! So I now have two things to worry about? :dubious: :mad:
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.
A Classical Reference that shall not be lost on most Dopers.