smh

My middle school home economics teacher told us the story of her cooking lobster for the first time. She thought they killed them for you when you get them at the grocery store.

She got home and opened the bag to find two live lobsters. The only pot she had big enough was glass. She watched those two lobsters boil to death and never had lobster again.

My partner's in the same boat.

What's wicked sad is he loves garlic but it doesn't love him. He can have garlic oil but that's about it (something to do with FODMAPs).

I've broken that habit. I get 6 calls a day telling me I'm pre-approved for some financial scam. I've tried blocking it, sending it through filters. Nothing has worked so far. They leave voicemails and now I don't check that because it's just 20 voicemails about a loan I don't want.

If I don't recognize the number I don't answer.

I have a soft spot for cabbage food, so I'd happily celebrate St Patrick's with some corned beef cabbage rolls/gołąbki.

I stopped eating almost any beef after discovering the cute cow gifs subreddit. They can be so puppy like! They're also huge methane machines and having fewer cows would be good for the environment.

On the other hand, I crave a good pot roast maybe once a year.

Edit: and I can name my mother's favorite childhood cow and the cow my grandpa let me name because we shared a birthday.

I'm trying to square my instinct that

1. snails aren't bugs (because they're squishy without the shell) with the feeling that
2. crabs are bugs (because they'd go tap-tap if you tapped on their exoskeleton with a finger) but
3. hermit crabs aren't bugs if they're in a shell but are bugs if they're naked

My old manager used to take his team out to a Szechuan Chinese place and order for us, family style. It was awesome.

I'm white AF and it was the first time I had actually spicy Chinese food. He'd also order a few mild dishes for the pair of no-spice folk on the team.

Thinking back, manager was a Chinese immigrant, most team mates were Indian immigrants, and the spice-free teammates were both white. (I mention immigrant because my Indian teammates with kids would complain about their American-born kids' low spice tolerance.)

Native English speaker. What I got is "His guts were fucked up in these technical ways so we did magical medical stuff. He went home, came back a 5 months later with sad butt symptoms and we did this other medical thing to treat it."

So yeah, I have no desire to understand more details

IBS, medication with "surprise diarrhea" as a side effect, and occasional almost--passing-out on the toilet (overactive vasovagal reflex). It's not a fun combination. Fiber only helps so much.

I'm sorry for being a regular person 😭

I tried different prescription meds until I found one that worked for me without bad side effects.

I'm honestly bad at taking my meds, but I take them when I really need to focus on something. But, my current job lets me flit from task to task, so I usually have something novel to work on and so don't need the meds. I do still take coffee, but only about a large cup a day.

Sorry that's not more helpful.