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[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 37 points 2 days ago (3 children)

"Cabbage is the most medicinal vegetable."

"If you save the urine from a habitual cabbage eater, heat it, and bathe a man in it, you will quickly make him healthy with this cure. This has been tested. Also, if you wash babies with this urine they will never become sickly!"

-Cato the Elder, inventing golden baths before golden showers were a thing.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago

I think Cato was on to something. If every time I said I was sick someone tried to bathe me in cabbage urine, I would no longer say I was sick.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fermented cabbage is actually very healthy 😅

[–] toofpic@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Tasty and crunchy!

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't think they had the water pressure for a good shower.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah. That's why the used piss.