I agree with most of this post, and completely agree with the last sentence; though in British English “poison” means something which is or has been used to kill things (and requires you to sign for it if you buy it); “toxin” is the word for a substance in the environment that is bad for you.
Well, you do realise where milk comes from, don’t you?
Single-celled creatures in the cow’s gut digest cellulose produce butyric acid, which the cow can then metabolise. And then for more fun we take the milk and add to it bacteria and/or fungi which digest the lactose; remove some of the water; and eat the resulting mix of bovine secretion and bacterial poop.
There’s American processed cheese, but that’s just made direct from cellulose with a little vegetable oil.
Almost exactly what I thought of when I read Cory’s increasingly shrill commentary on this.
That was one of the biggest gross-out moments in the movie, and one of the biggest gross-out memes about fast-food: don’t eat the white sauce, it probably has cum in it, right behind somebody spitting on your hamburger. Why, oh why do people hate penises?! Is it some sort of misandric weirdness going on? Why do people hate saliva? They’ve ingested saliva when they kiss. Is it classism, hatred of the lower class that makes their burgers?! THIS. IS. AN. OUTRAGE!
Naw, a lot of people have a hangup about ingesting body fluids. There are people who can’t watch porn because there’s oral sex going on. Or people who can’t watch porn because there might be anal. (He might get shit on his dick.) Yeah, the yeast is dead, but it’s a psychological thing. Misogyny, though…c’mon, man.
I shared the bread link with my wife, knowing her usual Internet habits probably wouldn’t run her across that. She got grossed out. Pretty sure she doesn’t hate her vagina.
Thanksgiving treats that look like sh*t.
William S. Burroughs: A Thanksgiving Prayer
Racist, Sexist Gross and Weird: THANKSGIVING
And now pussy-yeast bread. Do you think this stuff is accidental on BB? Home, hearth, family and tradition is all poo-pooed, both figuratively and sometimes literally, here, unless it’s the revised four-year-plan Modern Family, the “New Normal” family, the Addams Family. Next up, the Manson Family Christmas. And yea verily on Thanksgiving Day, we have pussy-yeast bread. Bread! The Staff of Life. Jesus was the Bread of Life. Bread is a symbol of all things domestic and good and wholesome. Again, stuff like this is no accident. And aside from those actively seditious (figuratively speaking) hereabouts, we’ve got the go-alongs, the Quislings, the A-to-B-to-C’ers. “Well, chances are you’ve already eaten shit without knowing it, right?”, “you’ve eaten in a restaurant?”, microscopic shit-molecules in the air or on your person or in your beard already, right?. so why NOT just go ahead and cut out the middleman and eat some shit?
The most interesting post here yesterday got deleted (as this one probably soon will be), the one about the intentional freakshow and how this potty-humor-esque pussy-yeast post was one level away from being a scat fetish.
If you look closely, you’ll see a “greater-than” symbol before the 70°C in her quote. She’s saying that the bacteria will die around 70°C, but of course her bread-baking reaches higher temperatures.
The roads, the roads omg the roads. Ever gotten accidentally stuck where they film Doc Martin? Or been run into a hedge by a combine on a blind corner? According to the locals I met those collisions are called ‘knock knocks’.
Everyone knows that all bad things come from the internet… that’s how the gays got into their… “alternative” lifestyle. I mean, no one was gay prior to the internets, right?
You know, your whole post is such a straw man that you could use it to do several remakes of the Wizard of Oz.
In getting through life it helps to know a little basic biochemistry and bacteriology. You seem to be of the view that knowledge is a slippery slope that leads to all kinds of things (that I’m not going into here.) So did the compilers of the book of Bereshit*, who thought that all secular knowledge was evil (which was why Adam and Eve were not supposed to - symbolically - acquire it.) You’re a bit like the conqueror who burned the Library of Alexandria because it contained things not in the Qu’ran. (I can exaggerate a little too.)
Knowing that fecal bacteria get just about everywhere is a long, long way from eating poop. Have you ever considered what the survivors of trench warfare experienced? Of what the Iraqis experienced after we bombed the Baghdad sewage system into oblivion?
And have you considered what food was like through most of human history before running hot water, efficient cookers and refrigerators?
Just having a realistic view of how things are isn’t perverse. But an obsession with “cleanliness” and “purity” can be a form of OCD - and Jesus didn’t think much of the people who practised it.
*I know the usual spelling in English is “Genesis” but I still have an adolescent mind.
When we lived in that part of the world we had a SWB Land-Rover (i.e. a proper non-Chinese one). They are designed for those roads. So, no problems. But yes I’ve seen larger vehicles stuck and being amusingly extracted by farm tractors.
Where we live now we have a special trap for foreign truckers who use car satnavs because they are too cheap to buy truck ones. There’s a road that leads round a tightish bend to a T junction. The huge foreign Artics drive straight past the 17t limit sign, then get to the T junction and find that (a) they can’t get round it and (b) they can’t reverse.
It’s amusing so long as it isn’t you being held up while the farmer separates the parts and drags the trailer round the bend.
It’s quick, and if you want to sound like a local its Orygun. But the key is to never put emphasis on the last syllable, otherwise you’ll be outed in an Orygun second (which is like half an hour).
