Now that one I’d opine on, if somebody said it seriously!
About iceberg lettuce, anyway— no nutrition, just irrigation water probably shipped across the continent, wasting fossil fuel.
If anybody is inclined to inform me that calamari is often pig assholes, I will thank them for the information and eat them anyway.
Ok…ewwww!
(Eat what you like, but the thought is well…ewww)
Tempeh is awesome. I miss it.
I have an Indonesian friend here who made her own once (she managed to bring back the starter from Indonesia) and gave me some. It was a revelation - I had only bought it in the grocery stores in Jakarta, and I thought that was delicious. But fresh, homemade tempeh was off the charts.
This isn’t about food, but it’s in the same vein.
There’s a guy in our building who needs a wheelchair to get around. He may be a really nice and interesting person who would be fun to talk to. But he goes outside at least ten times a day to smoke, then stinks up the elevator when he comes back in, which makes him a moron and an asshole as far as I’m concerned. I’ve never spoken to him for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I don’t want to become friends with someone who is likely to die before long because he’s too stupid to quit. Secondly, I doubt that I could be civil. So I just keep my mouth shut and ignore him.
To the other side, I was surprised at the number of people who told me that alcohol couldn’t possibly taste bitter to me because it didn’t taste bitter to them. One person even opined that this was a belief of mine, lol.
Yeah, the original This American Life story the Slate article references had all the hallmarks of an urban legend. Everyone the reporter interviewed was like “Well, I haven’t personally seen it, but someone told me…”
That said, they also pointed out that we already do eat hog rectum in other forms. If you buy certain kinds of sausage with a “natural casing”, yeah, that’s hog rectum. Other kinds use intestine, which is, well, rectum adjacent.
If someone asks for your opinion, opine away.
I lost a lifelong friend, to AIDS, when he and I were 35. He loved experimenting with drugs of every kind, but when he got his diagnosis (this was long before effective treatments), he gave them all up. Crystal meth, heroin, cocaine, barbiturates … but he could not kick cigarettes. He was smoking on his deathbed. Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known.
It doesn’t make someone a moron, asshole, stupid, or with a death wish, to be addicted to nicotine. It makes them an addict.
How do pigs grow those little tentacles, I wonder.
Those are a serious health hazard. Once a motorcyclist without a helmet rear-ended my car and got a really bad head trauma with blood and everything. It was horrible. Since then I keep maximum possible distance between myself and motorcycles.
P.S. I love khachapuri, a.k.a death by cheese.
Here’s the thing. It’s okay to eat a double cheeseburger once in a while. Go ahead and grab one of those jelly donuts Linda brought into the office this morning. It’s been a while since you’ve had a Mexican Pizza from Taco Bell? Knock yourself out. Eating these kinds of food in moderation isn’t unhealthy and lecturing your friends about these foods is just going to alienate them.
I’m going to assume the OP is coming from a good place, meaning a genuine concern for other people. Over they years, I’ve had two friends of mine whose health has caused me concerns. I kept my mouth shut because they sure as hell would have resented hearing me say something about whatever they were eating or drinking.
When I got married, I probably weighed in at 340 pounds. For a significant amount of time for the last twenty years I’ve hovered around 300 pounds. As well as a 300 pound man can hover at least. During COVID I started working from home and decided to make an effort to lose weight, I’m about 235 pounds now. I can tell you I would not have been at all receptive to a friend of mine telling me to watch what I eat. I knew I was fat. Unless we were exceedingly close, it just isn’t your place to tell me what to eat.
In my experience, people who want to lecture others about the unhealthiness of food never have this as their motivation. They’ll say they do.
You’re not wrong, but I try to give fellow Dopers the benefit of doubt.
The definitive answer I’m recalling was issued by Calpurnia, after she pulled Scout away from the table and told her Walter Cunningham gets to pour syrup on the food and eat whatever he wants, because he’s their guest, and not to criticize him.
I can think of one thread re: gambling. But it is not judgemental. It’s trying to explain to someone about a problem they themselves do not see.
I’ll certainly trust your recollection over mine.
Yeah. I really hate it when people smoke. I’m very sensitive to the smell. But I never harass friends who smoke politely. (Outdoors, not in my face.) They know it’s bad for them. And i know i do dumb destructive things, too.
The moron and asshole comments were directed at the smoker’s habit of stinking up an indoor elevator he shares with hundreds of non-smokers. I fully support that choice of words for that offense.
The rest of the words are a separate matter on which I offer no opinion.