….and that is why being separated from our food’s origins and not knowing anything about botany is what is wrong with the world today goddamnit.
I bet some people would eat castor beans too. Or yew. Or just fuckin’ snack on some hemlock because it’s natural, man.
Fucking incredible.
LIKE IT TAKES SOME FUCKING EFFORT TO GET A CHERRY PIT OPEN FUCKING W H Y
Question: Is it the same with plums? I used to do that occasionally when I ate dried and seasoned Asian plums as a kid.
Yes.
Plum pits do not contain as much as cherry, but they do.
Do not eat stone fruit pits, people. Or bitter almonds.
They all have cyanide in them.
Oh boy, apricot kernels. The amount of people I see lauding those as a “cure for cancer” is… demoralizing. I can’t find it right now but I believe there was a mother in the past few years who was taken to court for child endangerment/neglect for feeding those to her very young child as a cancer treatment.
I saw this horror last year, and yelled for an entire hour.
To be fair, I bet if you die of cyanide poisoning the cancer won’t kill you.
I have been wanting to use these photos for months.
The recommendation is to only eat 3 in one hour. because that is just the most filling snack and of course they will stop at three.
My rage over people pushing random toxic shit at people with cancer as a “natural cure doctor’s won’t tell you about because of big pharma” is undying and extreme.
I love almonds I’m so sad
Sweet almonds are fine! Eat those by the handful. Shove em right in your face. I adore almonds too.
But bitter almonds and other stone fruits are poison.
What’s the difference between bitter and sweet almonds? I’ve only heard the term “bitter almonds” used in relation to describing the smell of cyanide (which makes sense if they’re full of cyanide)
Sweet almonds are the kind sold for human consumption. Feel free to continue buying almonds as normal and eating them as desired.
Bitter almonds are too bitter for human consumption. You won’t find them in stores. Though, the almond flavor is stronger, so bitter almonds are used to make almond flavoring (the cyanide is removed first).
*disassociates while playing rhythm game and somehow gets a perfect score*
yeah it’s called the Rhythm Game Trance State and it’s guaranteed to get you a Perfect score but only if you lose 90% of your awareness of the surrounding universe and float off into another dimension while your hands remain in the material world to break lose all hell on a poor game controller
This is actually a known psychological phenomenon called Flow and it can happen with any task that doesn’t require a lot of brain power to do but does demand rapt focus, including most video games. I’ve found myself needing to be called for about three times before I break out of it, and yes this happens to me primarily with rhythm games.
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