• Mikekm@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    People get sick from eating olives? Man I can eat a jar of green olives, pair it with a brick of cheddar cheese and you’ve got yourself a meal.

      • readthemessage@lemmy.eco.br
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        1 year ago

        Maybe your stomachs still work properly. The other day I had a slice of cake and I swear I had to rush to the toilet before I had even finished it. I cannot understand how that’s physically possible.

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      1 year ago

      Olives are toxic until they’ve been brined. Those sort of discoveries always make me wonder… who figured out that immersing them in salt water for a month would make them edible without making you sick?

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        Pair tens of thousands of years with hungry little hominins and you will find that all kinds of improbable plants can be rendered edible in surprisingly specific ways. Where I live, on the US west coast, for example, it’s been thousands of years since the indigenous people figured out how to render acorns edible.

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      I’ve found my people. Think I’ll go indulge in a brick of cheddar right now. The concrete that I have to pass tomorrow will be … well … tomorrow’s problem.