# Serious question about Habakkuk3
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [May 14, 2013, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322 "2013-05-14T16:09:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322/61 "2013-05-15T14:36:23Z")
> [@digs](#):
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> Some foods just have awesomely amusing names:
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> Parsnips
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> Kumquats
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> Babaganoush
Don’t forget garbanzo beans. Doesn’t that just make you want to dance? It sounds like a dance. I’m doing the _garbanzo_!
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### Author:  [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322/62 "2013-05-15T14:39:14Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#):
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> You _fools_! You are in for a Dorito-dust train wreck right around the bend. The writing is on the wall. Don’t say you weren’t warned!
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> (A parsnip is a root vegetable btw. People ate them before there were Doritos. Don’t mistake Doritos for real progress!!!1!1!!)
Listen hippie, you can smoke all the ganga and parsnip you like, just because it comes out of the ground, doesn’t mean it’s natural. God didn’t give you parsnip so you could smoke it.
I tell you, you herbalists make me sick. You take parsley and sell it for 100 dollars a pound and say it has properties which can remove the toxins from my body that the Dorito dust puts there. Well I’ve never seen a toxin, have you? Therefore, just because Doritos are giving me cancer, that doesn’t mean it’s full of toxins.
Artificial Color (including Yellow 6 Lake, Red 40 lake, Yellow 6, Yellow 5, Red 40, RU-486, Blue 1, and Agent Orange) Are all perfectly natural ingredients. They came from protons, neutrons, and electrons, which GOD MADE. And if God made it, therefore, He knows it’s safe for us to eat.
Away with you, liberal progressive parsnip-loving hippie. Leave me with my bag of chemicals in peace.
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### Author:  [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2013, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322/63 "2013-05-15T14:41:52Z")
I’m going to eat a whole bale of monosodium glutamate just to prove you tree-huggers wrong.
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### Author:  [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2013, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322/64 "2013-05-15T14:52:59Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#):
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> I’m going to eat a whole bale of monosodium glutamate just to prove you tree-huggers wrong.
brb, hospital
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322/65 "2013-05-15T15:14:09Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#):
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> Don’t forget garbanzo beans. Doesn’t that just make you want to dance? It sounds like a dance. I’m doing the _garbanzo_!
“Chickpea” is an amusing name itself, for that matter.
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### Author:  [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2013, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322/66 "2013-05-15T15:20:21Z")
[Full of country goodness and green pea-ness](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH1PJTY9AVA).
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### Author:  [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322/67 "2013-05-15T15:25:48Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> “Chickpea” is an amusing name itself, for that matter.
Yeah, it’s not really fair to other foods that the main ingredient in hummus gets two crazy-cool names.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322/68 "2013-05-15T15:27:10Z")
I can’t eat hummus. It makes me feel awful.
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### Author:  [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322/69 "2013-05-15T15:29:59Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#):
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> You could sell a bag of the Dorito dust and I would snort it. I would snort it.
It took them awhile, but Kraft now sells the macaroni and cheese dust by itself, so there may be hope for Doritos dust.
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#):
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> My gf has been preparing a salad for me these days out of parsnips, carrots, cabbage and cucumbers. Add some vinagrette or salad dressing and it is surprisingly tasty (it is kinda like cole slaw, only fresher). Makes you regular as a clock too, and after eating it for a few days I feel better in a hard-to-pin-down way. More energetic, but something else too… anyway, you should really give it a try!
Does it taste like Doritos?
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322/70 "2013-05-15T15:30:09Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> I can’t eat hummus. It makes me feel awful.
:DTook me a second.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2013, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322/71 "2013-05-15T15:53:48Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> :DTook me a second.
Me, too.
Now I feel all dirty.
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### Author:  [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322/72 "2013-05-15T16:01:19Z")
I guess my derpitude is leaking out, as I still don’t get it.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2013, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322/73 "2013-05-15T16:07:46Z")
That’s all right, dear. No one expected you to.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2013, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322/74 "2013-05-15T16:09:15Z")
feel awful: [falafel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falafel)
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### Author:  [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2013, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322/75 "2013-05-15T16:11:21Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> That’s all right, dear. No one expected you to.
:mad:
😉
> [@kayaker](#):
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> feel awful: [falafel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falafel)
:smack:
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### Author:  [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322/76 "2013-05-15T16:13:14Z")
> [@digs](#):
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> Some foods just have awesomely amusing names:
>
> Parsnips
>
> Kumquats
>
> Babaganoush
Don’t forget [Kohlrabi!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlrabi)
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### Author:  [@Latro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latro)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2013, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322/77 "2013-05-15T16:56:31Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> feel awful: [falafel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falafel)
I guess you need to say it with a Texas drawl for it to make sense.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2013, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322/78 "2013-05-15T17:19:34Z")
I’m not sure I’m comfortable with Texans talking about falafel.
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### Author:  [@Sparky\_the\_Wonder\_Spirit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky_the_Wonder_Spirit)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2013, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322/79 "2013-05-15T17:26:24Z")
They call them “crunch patties”.
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### Author:  [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2013, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-question-about-habakkuk3/658322/80 "2013-05-15T17:52:11Z")
> [@Alessan](#):
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> I’m not sure I’m comfortable with Texans talking about falafel.
What about dolmas? Love me some grape leaf wrapped lamb and rice after a long day of hunting down illegals, postin on SturmFrunt on horseback and 10 gallon hat shopping.
Gotta go clean my guns, busy day
**Capt**
Texan
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